LiveKd

5.63

Use Microsoft kernel debuggers to examine a live system and highlight bugs that are responsible for the OS\'s misbehavior using this tool

In the eventuality that an application or operating system is acting weird or other than expected, then you can use debugging to figure out the root of the problem. Simply put, thanks to this process, you can highlight the bugs in the components and remove the potential errors. While overall a good method to identify and fix bugs, debugging is also difficult and takes a lot of time.
LiveKD is a tool that allows you to run the Kd and Windbg Microsoft kernel debuggers, which are part of the Debugging Tools for Windows package, locally on a live system. Although it can be argued that the latest versions of Windows come with similar capabilities as Kd and Windbg, the developer argues that the tool enables more functionality, one of the most important being that you can view thread stacks with the !thread command.
As you probably hinted, the tool enables you to execute all the debugger commands that commonly work on crash dump files and that allow you to take a closer look at the components and system. Since Kd is the default, you can employ various commands to switch to Windbg (-w) or Dumpchk (-d). Using the -k command, you can specify the complete path and filename of the debugger you want to execute.
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5.63
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