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The following pattern is useful for inconsistent dumps or incomplete supporting information: Environment Hint. It is mostly environment variable information for troubleshooting suggestions such as product elimination for testing purposes and / or necessary upgrade, for example:
0: kd> !peb
PEB at 7ffd7000
InheritedAddressSpace: No
ReadImageFileExecOptions: Yes
BeingDebugged: No
ImageBaseAddress: 01000000
Ldr 7c8897e0
Ldr.Initialized: Yes
Ldr.InInitializationOrderModuleList: 00081f18 . 000f9e88
Ldr.InLoadOrderModuleList: 00081eb0 . 000f9e78
Ldr.InMemoryOrderModuleList: 00081eb8 . 000f9e80
Base TimeStamp Module
1000000 45d6a03c Feb 17 06:27:08 2007 C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe
7c800000 49900d60 Feb 09 11:02:56 2009 C:\WINNT\system32\ntdll.dll
[...]
SubSystemData: 00000000
ProcessHeap: 00080000
ProcessParameters: 00020000
WindowTitle: 'C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe'
ImageFile: 'C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe'
CommandLine: 'C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe -k rpcss'
DllPath: [...]
Environment: 00010000
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
[...]
PROTECTIONDIR=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\3rdPartyAntivirus\Protection
[…]
Path= […]
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