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When a system crashes, it usually leaves behind something called a “crash dump”. This crash dump contains information about what happened. However, in order to read it on a system you need to download and install Microsofts debugging tools, its dependancies called “symbols” and run some commands. WhoCrashed is designed to read the crash dump files with a single click. Just open it, press “Analyze” and it will tell you what driver/hardware caused the problem.
While it wont tell you exactly what happened, it lists a hardware error message or a driver file that failed which you can Google and find the cause.
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Download from Official Site – 716kb
Is there a portable version?
Just copy it’s program files folder to your thumbdrive.
About time! Using the Microsoft debugging tools takes a ridiculous amount of time. This is defo going in my collection.
Would be nice if you could use it to analyze the dump from another system or boot an UBCD to run it. Typically if I can get into the system I have already got the issue resolved.
wow, that’s gonna come in handy!
You guy’s rock! I came across your website about 3 weeks ago. It has now become one of the sites I just have to read EVERYDAY!!! The tools and info you give are priceless… Keep it up!
Oh by the way, yeah, this tool kicks it!
Ah!…that’s easy. Thanks for the info. :)
This still needs the Microsoft Debugging Tools to be installed in order to work
:)
Wow, this tool can really come in handy for PC Game QA. Especially tester side.
Is there anyway to point it to a minidump file? I was only able to get it to run once on my system by dropping it in the Minidump folder. If I delete the one in there and drop another one there, WhoCrashed will reply that “No crash dumps have been found on your computer”.
Also, does anyone know of any other programs, like WhoCrashed?
Thanks,
Awesome tool. There have been many moments when my pc crashes for no particular reason, but with this tool I can see why it crashed. Excellent! :D
For the people asking how to point it to the minidump folder of another PC, check out windbg; part of the Windows Debugging Tools package.
For some reason everyone seems to think it is hard to use, but it’s not. Run it, click File -> Open Crash Dump and choose a minidump (or the MEMORY.DMP file). It loads, and at the end of the output tells you which driver is probably responsible for the crash.
To run it as a portable app, copy windbg.exe, dbgeng.dll and dbghelp.dll to your USB stick.