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Q&A: With AlwaysUp, Where Do My Application’s Debug Messages Go?

  We have installed AlwaysUp in a number of our Windows servers, and it works great. We have a specific application that outputs debugging messages that are usually visible in the Windows Debug console view via the Sysinternals DebugView or DebugView++ … Continue reading

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Q & A: How Can I Generate a Crash Dump Before AlwaysUp Restarts my Application?

  Occasionally the application we’re running as a service stops responding, resulting in AlwaysUp restarting it. We would like to run a script prior to the restart to try to generate a crash-dump file so we can find out where the … Continue reading

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Investigate Crashes & Memory Leaks in your Windows Services with Microsoft’s Debug Diagnostic Tool

Crashes and memory leaks are particularly offensive when the occur in windows services – applications designed to run unattended, 24/7 in the background to perform important tasks. Our AlwaysUp and Service Protector utilities go a long way to diminishing the … Continue reading

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