Hi!
I've installed Softice 4.05 on WinXP SP2.
Every thing is working fine.

My only Problem is that i could not find a way NOT to load it on systemstart.

When I change the startup options to "manually" it is still detected by various programs that -as a consequence - refuse to start (skype f.ex.).

What can I do not to load si the next time i start my windows?

Thanks in advance, Berger

Hi

From the fossil records which I dug up from a 3+ year old post, this is one nice way of doing it I used to use on Win9x, modify as required...

Kayaker


You can edit autoexec.bat to give you the option of starting up Softice on bootup.

Example courtesy of Eternal Bliss:

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@echo off
cls
set Winice1=Yes
set Winice2=No
echo Please Specify Whether You Want To Load SoftIce
echo.
echo Press 1 for %Winice1%
echo.
echo Press 2 for %Winice2%
echo.
echo SoftIce will not be loaded if nothing is pressed within 3 seconds
echo.
choice /c:12 /T:2,3 Choose an option
if errorlevel 2 goto NoLo
if errorlevel 1 goto Lo
:Lo
c:\PROGRA~1\NUMEGA\SOFTIC~1\WINICE.EXE
goto end
:NoLo
echo.
echo SoftIce Will Not Be Loaded
:end
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Perhaps you are very lucky, and Sice 4.05 landed in a particularly friendly system, but as far as I know not even Sice 4.27 was XP compatible. I suggest you perform a more in depth testing to make sure Sice is indeed working as it should in your system.

Kayaker that wont work in my case since under xp si is not loaded via winice.exe like it was with win9k - but thx anyway.

naides i was didnt have to much time to test- but it is starting without errors, ctrl+d brings me to sorftice and the few breakpoints i tried worked too.
The only problem i had at the begining was that pressing ctrl+d turned my screen to black, pressing it again brought me back to windows - i fixed that by including Monitor="0" in winice.dat (i have got the possibility to use 2 monitors and it seems to me si didnt know wich one to use)

Nevertheless i think ill give DS 3.1 a try since it has the posibility to switch the startup mode to "unload" - and thats what i wanted anyway

Hi, Berger,

you could always 'regedit' HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTice and set the 'start' value to 4 (0=Boot, 1=System, 2=Automatic, 3=Manual, 4=Disabled)...


That's a good choice... DS 3.1. has a special driver, bootcfg.sys, which allows you to manually select at boot time the winice configuration.

Regards, bilbo

Hm. Got Ds 3.0 for now.

Now i can perfectly disable it...

But when i load it manually it says it had load successfully, then it brakes:


When I press Ctrl+D to get out of SI I get a nasty bluescreen telling me the same Error - time for reboot.

I installed the newes osinfo.dat and osinfob.dat - didnt help.
I'm using WinXp Sp2 (<- )

(Should i have opened another tread for this problem?)

Regards and thx for your help, Berger


EDIT:
Using Symbol Retriever and Symbl Loader did the job - everythin seems to work fine now - thx

Yes almost all trip up on this problem, the solution has been listed many times, perhaps newbs can be redirected to this exact thread to read the following:

STEP1 TO USING SOFTICE ON WINXP:

GET_THE_FREAKING_SYMBOLS_FROM_M$_BY_USING_
THE_SYMBOL_RETRIEVER!

IF YOU DON'T DO THIS STEP THAN DON'T ASK WHAT'S WRONG !

And have fun reversing

-nt20