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Capturing Application Crash Dumps

Saturday, 16 June 2007 by Michel Roth

The Windows Performance Team has a article up on a subject that you probably want to steer clear from as much as possible but in the end it seems inevitable that you will have to deal with it somewhere along the line. It's like going to the dentist. Look at it this way, if have to go anyway you might as well go well prepared.

What am I talking about? Application Crash debugging. The Windows Performance Team discusses how you can capture application crash dumps on Windows XP, 2003, Vista and even Windows Server 2008: "Following on from our posts on the Basic Troubleshooting Toolkit and Basic Debugging of an Application Crash, let's talk about actually capturing Application crash dumps and failures. Most administrators are familiar with the Dr. Watson for Windows tool that has been around since the days of Windows NT. An updated version of this tool, DrWtsn32, still exists in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 - but not in Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008. So how do we capture user-mode dump files? We're going to cover several different methods for capturing dump files for User-mode application crashes."

Read the article here.