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Getting windbg without the whole WDK?

Does anyone know how to get ahold of windbg without having to download the entire 620MB WDK ISO? All I …

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How to set up symbols in WinDbg?

I am using Debugging Tools for Windows and I get the following error message when starting WinDbg / cdb or ntsd: …

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ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. windbg.exe

I downloaded the symbols from http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/symbolpkg.mspx the package (Windows 7 RTM x86 retail …

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Unable to load SOS in WinDbg

Background: I'm new to WinDbg and trying to get it running for the first time. I want to examine a …

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How to use WinDbg to analyze the crash dump for VC++ application?

How do I use WinDbg for analyzing a dump file?

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WinDbg symbol resolution

When using WinDbg, where should the private symbol files (pdb?) be placed? My situation is: I have a DLL which …

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Good tutorial for WinDbg?

Are there good tutorials for showing how to use WinDbg?

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A process serving application pool 'X' suffered a fatal communication error with the Windows Process Activation Service

I'm running an ASP.NET 4.0 application under IIS 7.5. Several times a day, our application pool is recycling unexpectedly. Our system …

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What is the "Break instruction exception" in WinDbg?

I'm debugging some random crash bugs, but actually very difficult to go deep into. Because when i open crash dump, …

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WinDbg x64: Cannot debug a crash dump - failed to load data access DLL

I attached WinDbg to a running process and had the process crashed (I have a separate question re. that case). …

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