Posted: 12/20/2009 2:47:13 PM EDT
I come home from work only to find my home PC has BSOD'd on me. I haven't seen a BSOD in years - at least not at home. Deal with 'em all the time at work - in fact, our SAN in NY is having BSOD issues.
Anyways, I see that a dump file has been written so I attempt to open it. It appears the Windows 7 doesn't have the debugging kit built in.  I downloaded the correct debugging shit from the MS website and attempted to open the dump file.
I was informed: "You don't have permission to open this file. Contact the file owner or administrator to obtain permission." I AM the administrator. I'm the only fuckin' user on the PC! Ideas? I really don't want to have to bust out the hidden admin user because I'm not even 100% sure that would work. |
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right click on your debugging program and click "Run as Administrator" Totally forgot about that option in Win7. 
Is there a way to set it up so that it runs everything as an Administrator without me telling it to? Right click > Properties > Compatibility tab > down at the bottom there is a check box to run as an Administrator |
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Quoted: I advise against doing it however. How often do you really need to run something as admin? Quoted: Quoted: right click on your debugging program and click "Run as Administrator" Totally forgot about that option in Win7. Is there a way to set it up so that it runs everything as an Administrator without me telling it to? Right click > Properties > Compatibility tab > down at the bottom there is a check box to run as an Administrator |
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right click on your debugging program and click "Run as Administrator" Totally forgot about that option in Win7.
Is there a way to set it up so that it runs everything as an Administrator without me telling it to? Right click > Properties > Compatibility tab > down at the bottom there is a check box to run as an Administrator Thanks 
As you can tell, I'm still learning my way around Win7. We still use XP SP3 and Win Server 2003/2008 at work, so I'm not wholly on this 7 platform yet. |
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I advise against doing it however. How often do you really need to run something as admin?
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right click on your debugging program and click "Run as Administrator" Totally forgot about that option in Win7.
Is there a way to set it up so that it runs everything as an Administrator without me telling it to? Right click > Properties > Compatibility tab > down at the bottom there is a check box to run as an Administrator As a debugging tool which is used to read dump files? All the goddamn time. Since it resides in that pesky Windows folder, Windows flips out when you try to access it without admin rights. |
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running everything as admin is inviting problems. If you figure out what's wrong and fix it then hopefully you wont need to use admin powers again for quite some time and they should be turned off for security reasons. If anything gets to my PC, I'll be impressed. 
As it stands, I still can't get into the goddamn dump file (character pack I downloaded was corrupted  )
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