It's a general perception that windbg and cdb are tools for a power debugger. Quite true! With the extensions and powerful commands, they provide the toolset you need to literally rip apart any process. Looks like VS debugger is getting there too. Just last week I realized that Visual Studio 2005...

It might not be as glorious as the "root" but Administrators command similar rights and privileges. But not every locale uses that string to identify the all powerful group of users. That might introduce interesting bugs. Even in some microsoft tools . Use of well known SID is how these sort of...