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Debugger as a Shut Up Application

I was really annoyed by one application that I use frequently that displayed pop up message boxes reporting some problems and setting focus to itself when I was working inside other unrelated applications. Even CtxHideEx32 employed to hide message boxes didn’t help (although I should have tried to hide the main app window instead). Suddenly a blessing idea came to me to attach WinDbg to it. The GUI annoyances disappeared and now when I need that application functionality I use g command and when I don’t need it I break into it.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

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One Response to “Debugger as a Shut Up Application”

  1. Crash Dump Analysis » Blog Archive » Workaround Patterns (Part 2) Says:
    January 25th, 2010 at 11:30 pm

    […] is to freeze a process responsible for an annoying or excessive activity like in the case study: Debugger as a Shut Up Application. We can also use other tools for this purpose like Mark Russinovich’s PsSuspend. The […]

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