Great Free Utility for BSOD Minidumps.

Published on July 25, 2013 By DrJBHL In Personal Computing

Nirsoft is a truly great source for utilities. They’re all free. They all work the way they’re intended.

BlueScreenView displays all the data from a crash in table form: the minidump filename, the date/time of the crash, the basic crash information displayed in the blue screen (Bug Check Code and 4 parameters), and the details of the driver or module that possibly caused the crash (filename, product name, file description, and file version).

There is also a link to explain exactly how to set up Windows to produce the report.

There are related utilities as well: WinCrashReport, WhatIsHang, AppCrashView and WhatInStartUp. All have links on the same page.

From the developer’s webpage:

Features:

Automatically scans your current minidump folder and displays the list of all crash dumps, including crash dump date/time and crash details.

Allows you to view a blue screen which is very similar to the one that Windows displayed during the crash.

BlueScreenView enumerates the memory addresses inside the stack of the crash, and find all drivers/modules that might be involved in the crash.

BlueScreenView also allows you to work with another instance of Windows, simply by choosing the right minidump folder (In Advanced Options).

BlueScreenView automatically locate the drivers appeared in the crash dump, and extract their version resource information, including product name, file version, company, and file description.

System requirements:

BlueScreenView works with Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8, as long as Windows is configured to save minidump files during BSOD crashes. If your system doesn't create MiniDump files on a blue screen crash, try to configure it according to the following article: How to configure Windows to create MiniDump files on BSOD [NOTE: link also above]

BlueScreenView can read the MiniDump files of both 32-bit and x64 systems.

There’s a good deal more info on the page as well.

Download link:

http://nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

Comments

RedneckDude

on Jul 25, 2013

I have this one, Doc. And it is very good thing to have if you work on PCs too.

Another similar utility, which I like even better, is WhoCrashed.

http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed

Hit Downloads at the top of the page, then halfway down the downloads page, it is.

Both of these are good tools to keep on a flash drive as a tool for PC repair, or just to use on your own PC.

Note the first page shows the Pro version, but there is a free version on the downloads page.

Link

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