Download BlueScreenView 1.31

Nearly every Windows user has sat in front of a computer that for one reason or another ended up on a bsod. Often there is an error message, but it is no longer possible to enter this error message into a search engine to determine the cause. Later, when the computer is restarted, a search engine can be accessed, but the exact error message is often no longer available. The developer of NirSoft has therefore written a program that makes it possible to read the minidump files that Windows creates when a bsod occurs. This allows you to try to determine the cause of the bsod by searching more specifically. BlueScreenView 1.31 has been available for a few days and includes the following list of changes since the previous entry in the Meuktracker:

Version 1.31:

• Added ‘Google Search – Bug Check+Driver’ for searching in Google the driver name and bug check code of the selected blue screen.

Version 1.30:

• Added ‘Dump File Size’ column.

Version 1.29:

• You can now send the list of blue screen crashes to stdout by specifying an empty filename (“”) in the command-line of all save parameters. For example: bluescreenview.exe /stab “” > c:\temp\blue_screens.txt

Version 1.28:

• Added ‘Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File’ option. When this option is turned on, the column names are added as the first line when you export to csv or tab-delimited file.

Version 1.27:

• Fixed issue: removed the wrong encoding from the xml string, which caused problems to some xml viewers.

Version 1.26:

• Fixed ‘DumpChk’ mode to work properly when DumpChk processing takes more than a few seconds.

Version 1.25:

• Added ‘DumpChk’ mode, which displays the output of Microsoft DumpChk utility (DumpChk.exe). You can set the right path and parameters of DumpChk in ‘Advanced Options’ window. By default, BlueScreenView tries to run DumpChk from ‘%programfiles%\Debugging Tools for Windows’
• The default MiniDump folder is now taken from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl

Version 1.20:

• Added 3 new columns in the upper pane: Processors Count, Major Version, Minor Version.
• Added ‘Explorer Copy’ option, which allows you to copy dump files to the clipboard and then paste them into Explorer window.

Version 1.15:

• Added option to view the blue screen list of multiple computers on your network. The computer names are specified in a simple text file. (See below).
• Added Combo-Box to easily choose the MiniDump folders available in the hard-disks currently attached to your computer.
• Added ‘Computer Name’ and ‘Full Path’ columns.

Version 1.11:

• Added /sort command-line option.

Version 1.10:

• Added accelerator keys for allowing you to toggle between modes more easily.
• Added command-line options for saving the crash dumps list to text/csv/html/xml file.
• Added command-line option for opening BlueScreenView with the desired MiniDump folder.
• Fixed focus problems when opening the ‘Advanced Options’ window.
• Added ‘default’ button to the ‘Advanced Options’ window.
• Added ‘processor’ column – 32-bit or x64.

Version 1.05

• Added support for x64 MiniDump files.