I like to play with post mortem debuggers to help troubleshoot issues with crashing or hanging application by doing some basic analysis of the dump files. Often times I change the Windows debugger between Dr Watson and WinDbg on my Windows Xp workstations. To make Windbg the default debugger you can go into the command shell and run the following command: Windbg –I. After doing this many times previously, I was surprised when I encountered the following error when trying to change the debugger on my Windows 7 workstation. “WinDbg was not successfully installed as the default postmortem debugger. This operaton requires administrative privileges.”
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Archive for October 29th, 2010
The Case of the Failed Registry Edit
Posted by William Diaz on October 29, 2010
Posted in Troubleshooting | Tagged: Anti-Virus, Process Monitor | 2 Comments »
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