Have you tried "Dr. Watson"?
Dr. Watson (Drwtsn32.exe) is installed in your system
folder when you set up Windows. The default options are
set the first time Dr. Watson runs, which can be either
when a program error occurs or when you start Dr. Watson
yourself.
When a program error occurs in Windows, the system
searches for a program error handler. A program error
handler deals with errors as they arise during the
running of a program. If the system does not find a
program error handler, the system verifies that the
program is not currently being debugged and considers the
error to be unhandled. The system then processes
unhandled errors by looking in Registry Editor for a
program error debugger.
The system looks in Registry Editor under the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug for the entries named Debugger
and Auto. The value for the Debugger entry specifies the
command for the debugger that will be used to analyze
program errors. If the value for the Debugger entry is
found, the system checks to see if the value for the Auto
entry is set to zero or one.
If the value for the Auto entry is set to zero, the
system generates a message box that notifies you that a
program error has occurred. If the value for the Debugger
entry specifies the command for a valid debugger, the
message box will display two buttons: OK and Cancel. If
you click OK, the program is terminated. If you click
Cancel, the specified debugger is started. If the value
for the Debugger entry is empty, the message box will
display only OK, and no debugger will start.
If the value for the Auto entry is set to one and the
value for the Debugger entry specifies the command for a
valid debugger, the system automatically starts the
debugger and does not generate a message box.
When Windows is set up on your system, the value for the
Auto entry is set by default to one and the value for the
Debugger entry specifies the command to start Dr. Watson.
This means that when a program error occurs, Dr. Watson
for Windows will automatically diagnose the error and log
the appropriate diagnostic information.
If you have been using a program other than Dr. Watson as
your default debugger, and you want to use Dr. Watson
instead, go to the command prompt and type the command
drwtsn32 -i to start Dr. Watson. Typing -i causes the
necessary changes to be made to the registry.
Dr. Watson can be made to generate more exacting
information for debugging purposes if the appropriate
symbols are installed and the symbol search path is set.
To do this, you first need to copy the symbols from the
Windows CD-ROM into a new folder on your computer. Then
you need to create a new system environment variable.
First, go to the systemroot folder on your computer and
create a new folder named Symbols. Next, go to the CD
under \\Support\Debug\i386 and copy the symbols to the
Symbols folder that you created on your computer. After
the symbols have been copied, create a new system
environment variable. While creating the new system
environment variable, type _NT_SYMBOL_PATH for the
variable name and %systemroot%\Symbol for the variable
value. You can install various symbols to different
locations separated by semicolons and point to each of
those locations using the same environment variable. Be
sure to include variables for added service packs. For
example: _NT_SYMBOL_PATH=%systemroot%\symbol;%systemroot%
\hotfixes;%systemroot%\symbolsNt4Sp3.
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