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Last Updated
January 26, 2001 v4.05
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DebugView
is an application that lets you monitor debug output
on your local system, or any computer on the network
that you can reach via TCP/IP. It is capable of
displaying both kernel-mode and Win32 debug output,
so you don’t need a debugger to catch the debug
output your applications or device drivers generate,
nor do you need to modify your applications or drivers
to use non-standard debug output APIs.
DebugView works on Windows 95, Windows 98,
Windows Me, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000 and Whistler
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Under Windows 95, Windows
98, and Windows Me DebugView will capture output
from the following sources:
- Win32 OutputDebugString Win16 OutputDebugString
- Kernel-mode Out_Debug_String Kernel-mode _Debug_Printf_Service
Under Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Whistler Beta 1
- DebugView will capture: Win32 OutputDebugString
- Kernel-mode DbgPrint All kernel-mode variants
of
- DbgPrint implemented in Whistler (the successor
to Windows 2000) Beta 1
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DebugView
has a powerful array of features for controlling
and managing debug output. Here are features
new to version 4.0:
- Terminal services aware: When you
run DebugView in a remote terminal services
session you can capture debug output from that
session as well as from the console session.
- Administrators membership optional:
The account from which you run DebugView
requires no special privileges for capturing
Win32 output. If you want to capture kernel-mode
output the account requires the "load driver"
privilege, which members of the administrators
group hold.
- Multiple hilighting filters: Create
up to five differenent highlighting filters
to highlight debug output that matches your
filters, and even customize the highlighting
colors used for each filter.
- Minimize to tray: You can minimize
DebugView to the system tray so that
it captures output without taking up screen
real-estate.
- Command-line options: DebugView
supports command-line options that allow you
to launch it in the system tray and to automatically
start logging output to a file.
- Millisecond timestamps: DebugView's
clock-time mode now supports millisecond resolution.
Here is a list highlighting some of DebugView's
other features:
- Remote monitoring: Capture kernel-mode
and/or Win32 debug output from any computer
accessible via TCP/IP - even across the Internet.
You can monitor multiple remote computers simultaneously.
DebugView will even install its client
software itself if you are running it on a Windows
NT/2K system and are capturing from another
Windows NT/2K system in the same Network Neighborhood.
- Most-recent-filter lists: DebugView
remembers your most recent filter selections,
with an interface that makes it easy to reselect
them.
- Process ID option: Toggle the display
of process IDs for Win32 debug output.
- Clipboard copy: Select multiple lines
in the output window and copy their contents
to the clipboard.
- Log-to-file: Write debug output to
a file as its being captured.
- Printing: Print all or part of captured
debug output to a printer.
- One-file payload: DebugView
is implemented as one file.
- Crash-Dump Support: DebugView
can recover its buffers from a crash dump and
save the output to a log file so that users
can send you the output your NT driver generated
right up to the time of a crash.
The on-line help-file describes all these features,
and more, in detail.
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Simply execute
the DebugView program file (dbgview.exe)
and DebugView will immediately start capturing
debug output. To run DebugView on Windows
95 you must get the WinSock2
update from Microsoft. Note that if you run
DebugView on Windows NT/2K dbgview.exe must
be located on a non-network drive and you must have
administrative privilege. Menus, hot-keys, or toolbar
buttons can be used to clear the window, save the
monitored data to a file, search output, change
the window font, and more. The on-line help describes
all of DebugView's features.
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| This is a screenshot
of DebugView capturing Win32 debug output from a
remote system. Note the presence of a highlighting
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In order to help
us track its use, please download through the link
that represents the operating system on which you
will use or mostly use DebugView.
Note that the zip files are identical, and DebugView
runs on either platform.
Download DebugView
(x86 - 161KB) - you plan on using DebugView on Win9x/Me
Download DebugView (x86
160KB) - you plan on using DebugView on WinNT/2K
Download DebugView
(Alpha - 170KB)
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