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WinDbg is Microsoft’s low-level debugger designed for advanced troubleshooting of Windows applications, services, drivers, and the operating system itself. It supports both user-mode and kernel-mode debugging, making it a staple tool for engineers diagnosing complex crashes, hangs, and data corruption. WinDbg excels at postmortem analysis through minidumps and full memory dumps, providing detailed stack traces, exception context, and thread state inspection to pinpoint root causes quickly.
For symbol-driven workflows, WinDbg integrates tightly with PDB symbol files and the Microsoft Symbol Server, enabling accurate call stacks, type information, and source correlation when symbols are properly configured. Its extensibility is a major advantage: the debugger engine supports powerful scripting and automation, and the extension model (including built-in commands and third-party plugins) allows deep inspection of heaps, handles, locks, IRPs, and other OS internals. Features such as conditional breakpoints, data breakpoints, trace logging, and memory watchpoints help you capture elusive race conditions and intermittent faults.
WinDbg is frequently used for kernel debugging over KD/NET, serial, or USB, and for analyzing bugchecks, driver issues, and virtualization-related failures. With the right symbol and dump strategy, it becomes an effective forensic instrument for performance investigations, deadlock analysis, and regression validation in production environments. If you need precise visibility into execution state at the instruction, register, and memory level, WinDbg remains a professional-grade choice.