WhoCrashed 3.04 - Changelog

What's new in WhoCrashed 3.03:

January 10th, 2012

· Some minor fixes and text corrections have been made.

What's new in WhoCrashed 3.01:

January 4th, 2011

· Some minor fixes were made.

What's new in WhoCrashed 3.00:

November 22nd, 2010

No longer requires download and installation of WinDbg package unless running on Windows XP or older :
· WhoCrashed no longer needs to download and install the WinDbg debugger package from Microsoft. Only if you are still running Windows XP or Windows 2000 this is still required. For all later operating system versions (Windows Vista, Windows 7, etc) it will run without requiring you to download and install additional software packages. This saves installation time.

More detailed analysis reports :
· Analysis reports now displays additional information including amount of up time, operating system versions and system information such as number of active processors at the time of the crash. Conclusions will now also include the likely nature of a problem (faulty hardware, a thermal issue, typical software problem, typical case of memory corruption, etc.)

Documentation assisting you in troubleshooting :
· WhoCrashed now comes with better documentation. Depending on any particular situation, it will assist you in undertaking steps to troubleshoot existing problems right from the conclusion section in the analysis report

Support and information on obscure and rare bug checks :
· WhoCrashed now recognize less common, obscure, proprietary and rare bug checks.

Symbol Resolution (professional version) :
· The new version of WhoCrashed offers optional and configurable symbol resolution. It can extract symbols from a local symbol store or from the Microsoft symbol server automatically. This will allow for more informational call stacks and accurate crash dump analysis conclusions.

Kernel call stack information (professional version) :
· The new version offers kernel call stack information which includes names of kernel modules and function names for Microsoft modules if symbol resolution has been switched on.

Loaded module information (professional version) :
· The new version offers kernel call stack information which includes names of kernel modules and function names for Microsoft modules if symbol resolution has been switched on.

Detailed crash dump information (professional version) :

More detailed crash dump information. :

Crash dump overview (all versions) :
· The new version of WhoCrahsed offers a handy overview which gives quick insight on all system crashes that took place on a particular machine.

More detailed analysis reports:

What's new in WhoCrashed 2.10 Build 21030311:

March 25th, 2010

· Bug fixed: crash dump dates could get misreported
· In some cases where the case crash dump files were overwritten by the system, WhoCrashed could misreport the date and time of the crash. This has been fixed

Support for latest WinDbg:
· The WinDbg version on which WhoCrash relies has been updated to point to the latest package.

What's new in WhoCrashed 2.00:

March 25th, 2010

Support for Windows 7:
· WhoCrashed now support all versions of Windows 7.

Corrupt or inaccessible crash dump files are now listed:
· Due to the nature of crash dump files, it's common for them to be corrupt or incomplete. WhoCrashed now displays an error message for every crash dump file that was found but could not be read.

More meaningful messages produced:
· WhoCrashed displays more meaningful error messages which may help you to find the cause of your problem. Bug check error message strings have been updated for the latest operating systems.