Process crash dump

[Bob Altman]

I have an application that runs a bunch of programs. Occasionally, one of the
programs dies a horrible death due to a coding error of some sort in the
program. As things are configured today, when one of these programs dies, it
simply disappears from the computer, leaving behind no trace of why it died.

Can someone please tell me how I can configure my Windows XP Pro computer so
that these programs will leave behind a process memory dump that I can examine
with windbg if the program exits as a result of an unhandled exception?

TIA - Bob

[Cholo Lennon]

Bob Altman wrote:

I have an application that runs a bunch of programs. Occasionally,
one of the programs dies a horrible death due to a coding error of
some sort in the program. As things are configured today, when one
of these programs dies, it simply disappears from the computer,
leaving behind no trace of why it died.

Can someone please tell me how I can configure my Windows XP Pro
computer so that these programs will leave behind a process memory
dump that I can examine with windbg if the program exits as a result
of an unhandled exception?

TIA - Bob

Try using "Doctor Watson". Type 'drwtsn32' in menu start / run. Check its help
to learn how to configure it.
--
Cholo Lennon
Bs.As.
ARG

[Bob Altman]

Try using "Doctor Watson". Type 'drwtsn32' in menu start / run. Check its

help
to learn how to configure it.

That looks promising. Thanks Cholo!

[Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]]

Hi Bob,

Additionally, if you want to do this on a development machine and you
prefer to use windbg for the postmortem debugging, you may just execute
"windbg.exe -I" from cmd.exe.(Please change "windbg.exe" with the full path
to it. Also, the "-I" is case sensitive). This command line to the windbg
will install windbg as the default postmortem debugger which is pretty
convenient.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
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