Hi,

I am a newbee.
I am using Olly to debug an application (.exe).
I don't know if this is normal but very often when I am running the application from Olly, XP freezes at some point. Absolutely no windows is responsive.

I can press ctrl-alt-del then select "open task manager". The task manager opens but freezes immediately!
The only way I found to exit from this state is to press again ctrl-alt-del and "log off"...

The freeze can happen:
- if I set a BP at some places in Olly and the program reached it.
- if I click on a Olly (internal) window while having the code running with "animate".
- if I go to the application then back to Olly.

This happens with v1.10 and v2.0.

I am missing an important point here?

Thanks for your help.

Since the program you are debugging is stopped when it reaches a breakpoint; it is not processing Window messages, and so it will seem to be "frozen" and you will face some difficulties. It should however only be in the area for the that programs Window, so before you stop the program, shrink the size of the Window, or, even better, move it onto another monitor (my preferred solution - I typically try and keep a monitor free for this task when debugging).

checkout my thread http://www.woodmann.com/forum/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=13394

In the case that you set a breakpoint in some code of the application that is executed at startup of the application, the target will not start. I can also say, currently you may want to stick with Ollydbg 1.10, as Ollydbg 2.0 is a beta and is definitely buggier then a complete version.