Archive for April 15th, 2007

Crash Dump Analysis Poster v1.0

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

In December when I announced Crash Dump Analysis Card I talked about my plans to make a poster. Here is what I came to in the first version: A4 format poster with the following goals in mind:

  • Have it easy to stick nearby or have it handy
  • Foldable into two halves (user / kernel dumps)
  • Possibility to make it a background image on a PC desktop
  • Have it displayed on a second monitor
  • To facilitate mastering commands and their options
  • Encourage to look in WinDbg Help

You can download large JPEG file (1701×1208) for free (PDF file will be available later):

Download Crash Dump Analysis Poster

In a couple of months I’m going to release the new version after using and playing with the current one and collecting feedback. I have some extension commands missing in the first version of this poster like !list command, various scripting and meta-commands and I will add them in the next version. The current choice of commands is based on my previous Crash Dump Analysis Card and my personal day-to-day crash dump analysis work.

Originally I wanted to call it like something like WinDbg Cheat Sheet or WinDbg Poster but then I realized that I had to omit various live debugging commands and options and there are already several similar cheat sheets for live debugging. 

- Dmitry Vostokov -