What is your favorite technique for launching a windbg user-mode remote debugging session? Why is do you prefer this technique over other techniques? (pros/cons) There are at least four different ...

I recently got myself a dump file generated via procdump when my application remained unresponsive for a while. When I run !locks on the dump file, I get a lone entry that goes something like: 0:...

I'm trying to install WinDbg from this page, just under the Debugging Tools for Windows 10 (WinDbg) section. However, when I download the executable and run it, it tells me that You must uninsta...

I am trying to understand the verbose output better and am curious why there are duplicate lines when !sym noisy is ON. Some lines are totally duplicate others differ very slightly. In below I hav...

My scenario is I'm supporting a VB6 app at the place I work and in the last few weeks it has started crashing more often than it ever used to. It uses both a local Access MDB database and a remote ...

I am debugging a user mode crash dump file with Visual studio 2015. However the symbols don't match. In WinDbg there is a command line .reload /f /i where the /i ignores the timestamp which binds t...

The documentation says: If you include the string srv* in your symbol path, the debugger uses a symbol server to get symbols from the default symbol store. For example, the following command t...

I have a crash dump of an application that is supposedly leaking GDI. The app is running on XP and I have no problems loading it into WinDbg to look at it. Previously we have use the Gdikdx.dll ext...

I have a crash dump of unmanaged C++ code. I opened it with Windbg, set the symbol path and source path. Ran !analyze -v and got the following stack trace STACK_TEXT: 094efec0 7439fdc8 8b6ac787 ...

I see some references and tutorials about the commnads of WinDBG. Some of them like this lm, this .echo, this !running, and this nt!_PDB. What is difference between these categories xxx .xxx !xx...

I need to log some data when some functions are hit, both at the start of execution and and the end of it. While i have no problem with putting breakpoints at the start of the functions(using bu [m...

I am using Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 Immediate Window to see some objects' memory layout. First, I created a Console Application Project and changed the Project Properties： checked the Enable na...

I have a dump of a .NET Universal App running on Raspberry Pi 2, Windows 10 IoT: 0:000> vertarget Windows 10 Version 10240 MP (4 procs) Free ARM (NT) Thumb-2 Product: WinNt, suite: SingleUserTS...

I am trying to find a content of the default TaskScheduler in a dump of a .NET application. How I can do that? An application was hung. I need to make sure that the default scheduler contains ...

Basically, this is the same question that was asked here. When performing kernel debugging of a machine running Windows 7 or older, with WinDbg version 6.2 and up, the debugger doesn't show anythi...

I intermittently receive a browser hang with this error in a dump file. After using !analyze -v on 3 crashes I receive this error and stack GetUrlPageData2 (WinHttp) failed: 12007. However, I c...

Is there a way to trigger a garbage collection in a .NET process from another process or from inside WinDBG? There are the Managed Debugging Assistants that force a collection as you move across a...

Each time I do a .restart (because I accidentally pressed F10 one too many times), WinDBG erases all my breakpoints. Is it possible to have it leave the breakpoints in place when restarting the deb...

Our WCF service showed an Instance of large memory usage so we took a full memory dump to identify the issue. Operating System Windows Server 2008 R2Service Pack 1 Number Of Processors 4 Process...

Under a heavy load, our application is making a beefy server go to 100% CPU usage. Reading the process dump, looking at the threads, some of them are 10 minutes up. None of them give me any insight...

I found the trace "AKC!_invoke_watson" when I used WinDbg to analysis our issue. Could you please help me to explain what is the "_invoke_watson"? And how to know what is the root cause of the AKC ...

I have a few Windows 7 machines that I am not able to read their memory dumps. I found something that I suspect may be related, but am not positive: https://twitter.com/aionescu/status/63402873745...

I've used windbg for user mode debugging before, but I suspect I did something to my system because I don't recall having a problem using for example the extension command !heap before. I can clea...

If I have a process dump file, is there anyway of knowing if the dump was generated on a x64 machine or x86 machines?

I'm having some troubles to understand the crash dump and to find what is the root cause of the OutOfMemoryException thrown by the WPF application. The exception is thrown after the application has...