Friday, November 30, 2007

WinDbg and BSOD

- Downloads Windows debugger from Microsoft Web, after that install that Application at your Computer
- Find where your Windows store your debugging information.
- To find out where your windows hide your Debugging info Right Click the "My Computer" Icon.
- Select Property then go to Advanced Tab.

- At the Startup and recovery Section click the Settings button.

- Now you can see where your Windows store it's Dump file.


- For the start menu Start -> All Programs -> Debugging Tools for Windows -> WinDbg

- Now Open the dump file, go to File -> Open Crash Dump, then navigate to directory where the dump file stored.


- After you Open that file you will see lot of info. You can find the cause of BSOD, see at the bottom.


- As you can see the cause of the BSOD on my server is a file called mfehidk.sys, which a processes belongin to McAffe AV ( and that sucks)
- For detailed debugging info you can use command !analize -v , at the commad field

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

How to Update to Win XP Sp3 with registry hack

Yesterday I found an article how to hack Win Xp registry so I can update to SP 3 rc1 . I found that article at this link "http://dailyapps.net/2007/11/hack-attack-get-windows-xp-sp3-through-windows-update/"
here the script

@echo off
reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\XPSP3 /f 2> NUL
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\XPSP3 /v RCPreview /t REG_SZ /d 1c667073-b87f-4f52-a479-98c85711d869 /f
echo XPSP3 registry key has been set. Please check for updates in Windows Update - Kudos to dailyapps.net
pause

copy paste that script to notepad, then save as winxpsp3hack.cmd.
Double click that file, just follow the instruction.
After that update your windows via automatic update.