Hi all,

I am reading up on debugging minidump files, because I have been
getting some blue screens and would like to diagnose them. I have
downloaded Windbg, but most of the articles about how to use it seem to
have been written in the WinXP days.

The articles reference using C:\WINDOWS\I386 as the image path. This
folder does not exist on the Vista DVD; what path should I use? Is
there anything that needs to be copied from the DVD?

Also, I downloaded the "Windows Vista SP1 RTM and Windows Server 2008
RTM x64 retail symbols, all languages" symbol package from the Microsoft
web site. The installer put the symbol files in C:\WINDOWS\SYMBOLS and
this is what I specified as the path in Windbg. However, when I open up
my dump file, Windbg reports that "Your debugger is not using the
correct symbols."

Finally, despite being an Administrative user on the computer, I don't
have access to the files in C:\WINDOWS\Minidump, and UAC is preventing
me from changing the security on them (unless I do it one at a time).
Is there a way around this?

Thanks in advance for any help.

- Steve


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RSKadish