Debugging tool set

To set the debugger for bit or bit mode, use the. If you are debugging live bit user-mode code that is running on a separate target computer, use the bit debugging tools.

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Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services. Privacy policy. The Windows Debugger WinDbg can be used to debug kernel-mode and user-mode code, analyze crash dumps, and examine the CPU registers while the code executes. WinDbg Preview is a new version of WinDbg with more modern visuals, faster windows, and a full-fledged scripting experience.

It is built with the extensible object-orientated debugger data model front and center. The Windows debuggers can run on xbased, xbased, or ARM-based processors, and they can debug code that is running on those same architectures.

Sometimes the debugger and the code being debugged run on the same computer, but other times the debugger and the code being debugged run on separate computers. In either case, the computer that is running the debugger is called the host computer , and the computer that is being debugged is called the target computer.

The Windows debuggers support the following versions of Windows for both the host and target computers. Symbol files store a variety of data that are not required when running the executable binaries, but symbol files are very useful when debugging code.

If Windows stops working and displays a blue screen, the computer has shut down abruptly to protect itself from data loss and displays a bug check code.

For more information, see Bug Checks Blue Screens. You analyze crash dump files that are created when Windows shuts down by using WinDbg and other Windows debuggers. For more information, see Crash dump analysis using the Windows debuggers WinDbg.

In addition to the debuggers, Debugging Tools for Windows includes a set of tools that are useful for debugging.