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WinDbg is a user and kernel mode debugger for Windows.

Process information in dump

I learnt that .tlist command in windbg dumps all the processes running in the system at the time of creating …

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How can I extract DLL file from memory dump?

I have a memory dump (unmanaged process) . How can I extract (using windbg) one of the dlls loaded into the …

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How to turn off Windows kernel debugging at boot time?

I have a Vista 32 bit machine which I wanted to enable local kernel debugging on. In WinDbg I selected File/…

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GFlags setting to catch heap corruption (other than Page Heap)?

On one production site our application(*) crashes repeatedly, but non-reproducibly. Analyzing the crash dumps clearly shows that it's a heap …

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Windbg: How to set breakpoint on one of the overloads of a C++ function?

I have two overloads of a c++ function and I would like to set a breakpoint on one of them: 0:000&…

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How to install Debugging Tools with Visual Studio 2017 installer?

I need cdb.exe as a debugger for QT Creator. I know that cdb is available as a part of …

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Dump file analysis of Java process?

If I take dump, using Windbg, of Java process running on Windows Can I analyze (easly?) the Java heap, objects, …

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WinDbg/SOS: Explanation of !SyncBlk output

I am looking of a description of the output generated by the !SyncBlk command of SOS. Particularly I found no …

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Using WinDbg to analyze .NET dump

I am using windbg to perform an analysis on a dump. Following are the commands that I have ran .loadby …

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What are .ni.dll and .ni.exe files in a minidump?

I got a minidump from the Windows Store Apps submission process (sent by a reviewer) because of a crash in …

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