Today I wanted to find out what the Debugger Engine (DbgEng) changes are between Windows 7 and the Windows 8 Developer Preview. To get the differences, I did a WinDiff between the SDK 7.1 ‘DbgEng.h’ header file and the new version (C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\Debuggers\x64...

My blog post on a BugCheck 0x101 - CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT is now live on the NTDebugging blog... http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ntdebugging/archive/2011/10/26/debugging-a-clock-watchdog-timeout-bugcheck.aspx

For some unfathomable reason, there seems to be no simple chart cross referencing the common CPU names, their basic features, and the internal CPU information identification (provided by !cpuid and !sysinfo cpuinfo ).  (There is also no clear description as to why !sysinfo cpuinfo doesn’t match...

For a long time now I've had a registry file to make context menu entries for WinDbg. The entries allow you to select the x86 or x64 debugger. Internally at Microsoft, I have another version of the registry file that contains two more context menu entries for the private symbol server. You can see all...