I assure you that DS2.7 works fine and correclty on both WIndows 2000 and Windows XP concerning BPX. Like I've said before you have to use SYmbol retriever for your particular ntoskrnl.exe, and of course add the DLL's you are interested in, in the exports dialog of SoftICE (as well as ntoskrnl.exe itself too)

You can even load any DLL after boot by just using the symbol loader.

Here is something for you to try: Go into softice. Type "u messageboxa" (assuming first of course you've loaded user32.dll into either symbol loader or exports dialog at boot time). Do you see any valid code come up? If you don't have the correct ntoskrnl.exe symbol file, or it's not being loaded correctly, you won't see any code. You'll see that its supposed to be an export, but there won't be any code in the code window that looks correct at all. THIS MEANS the symbol file isnt' working and you didnt set it up right. This is how I always test my new SI installations to make sure they look correct.

As far at Bp on the HWND you can't be in idle process to use it. You have to "PROC", and then "ADDR" to some process with a window, and now you should be able to set such a breakpoint...some may not like the ADDR. I am telling u that ADDR is NICE. You could never do such a thing on win98. Using ADDR you can set BPXs in a process without having to first break into it. It's much more convenient.

Here is at least the minimum exports you need in dat file:

EXP=\SystemRoot\System32\ntoskrnl.exe
EXP=\SystemRoot\System32\ntdll.dll
EXP=\SystemRoot\System32\kernel32.dll
EXP=\SystemRoot\System32\user32.dll


-Lunar