XP: get information from the Windows Dump

Contributed by William_Wilson April 28, 2006  
Tagged: Windows

The windows Dump is a useful tool, here is how to view it

As a test we will discover information about the video card, but try searching through other parts of the dump and you will find other information.

open a command (DOS) prompt and type debug
then when the - appears type: D C000:0040
this will display the dump and to the right some legable ASCII info should be available, also type: D C000:0090 for further dump info on your video card.

In windows 98/95 the first dump is: D C000:0010
This one i’ve known for a long time, but a few minutes of trial and error and a dependable (change nothing MS) allowed me to find it for XP, lol.

Since Windows has issues with debuggers in general, to view outputs and dump of the OS itself, this trick lets you have access to the dump, right from windows itself, I won’t tell you any uses for this, but i’m sure there are some creative programmers with ideas already.

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-William. § (marvin_gohan)