Monday, March 7, 2011

USB drive with debugging tools

I'm putting together a USB drive that should contain tools useful for troubleshooting various software problems encountered by users.

What tools would you recommend that I include?

Main environment: Windows and .NET

From stackoverflow
  • "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."

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx

    • KeePass for all the different passwords used by your customers.
    • Any application-specific scripts you've built up (SQL, batch files, PowerShell etc).
    • Angry IP Scanner
    • PSTools from Sysinternals
    • If you're .NET you should get Reflector
  • I can recommend the following : {Some of them have been already mentioned though}

    LOG ANALYSIS:

    TextPad

    NotePad++

    VIM {for opening very large txt files}

    SYSTEM MONITORING:

    Process Explorer {allows to check the threads and dlls loaded}

    CODE/ERROR ANALYSIS:

    Reflector

    DebugView

    WinDbg

    Autodump+

  • SysInternals Suite, especially AutoRuns, Process Explorer, and Process Monitor

    http://www.sysinternals.com

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