Creating a Dump File of an application crash

If you have an application or service that hangs or crashes and you can recreate the error you can use the ADPlus Debug tool to create a crash dump of the offending executable.

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/286350 for full useage but a basic command is

ADPlus -crash -pn myapp.exe -o C:\temp\dump

but Basically you will

• Install the Debug tools.
• Run the ADPlus tool
• Cause the application to hang or crash
• Analyse the dump File

To Analyse the crash dump use WinDbg - Clear instructions for this are on
http://www.parmiter.com/microsoft/windows-2003/2009/05/RP585