Category: Troubleshooting

So you have WinDBG installed on your machine as per the previous post. This post will detail how to add the symbols file persistently to the WinDBG application. In this configuration I am going with saving the symbols locally to C:\symbols using the official Microsoft Symbols Server at https://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols. srv*c:\symbols*https://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols In …

WinDBG is a very useful tool for analysing crash dumps and memory dumps. It is part of the Windows SDK. You can grab it here: Windows 10 SDK Download Don’t worry if you’re doing this on a Windows 7/8 device, the WinDBG application will work on these OSes. When you run …

Just a quick one on configuring Windows 7/8/10 & Servers for a full memory dump so you get the most information possible. If you are in the Startup and Recovery options and do not see the option for ‘Complete Memory Dump’ (See below image), you need to make a registry …