A tip to get Microsoft Debug Symbol

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Hi all !
I saw many question about how to get debug symbol files from Microsoft Symbol Server at Woodmann forum, and have many answers, but seem too complex to follow.
In the past, I have use Symbol Retriever tool of DriverStudio, but it alway failed, so I should find another way.
Sometime, I use WinDbg to debug, and found it can download the request debug symbol files from Microsoft Symbol Server. After reading WinDbg document and using depends tool, I have collected a small package, can run standlone without need to install whole WinDbg free package (> 10 MB). I attached it here.
The steps:
1. You only need to extract it to a folder, better than if its folder name is placed in the PATH enviroment.
2. You create two folder, C:\Symbols and C:\WinNT\Symbols (or C:\Windows\Symbols on your XP machine). In C:\Winxx\Symbols, you create some subdirectory, name exe, dll, sys, cpl, ...
3. Create a enviroment variable, name: "_NT_SYMBOL_PATH", with value:"%SYSTEMROOT%;%SYSTEMROOT%\system32;SRV*C:\Symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols"
4. At here, you can begin to get debug symbol files by issue command: symchk.exe /v [dllpath/exepath...].
Ex: symchk /v c:\winnt\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
or symchk /v c:\winnt\system32\ntdll.dll
or symchk /v c:\winnt\system32\win32k.sys
If your debug symbol file on your machine is not mach with exe/dll file, or did not exist, the symbol file will be downloaded from Microsoft Symbol server and placed in C:\Symbols directory, at [exe/dllname.pdb/dbg]/[signature]/.
According to debug information in exe/dll file, the pdb file or dbg file or two files will be downloaded.
And you can move .pdb/.dbg file to subdirectory %systemroot%\symbols\...
Ex: ntoskrnl.pdb/.dbg to exe subdir
ntdll.pdb/.dbg to dll subdir
win32k.pdb/.dbg to sys subdir
I use this way on my Win2000 server, use ADSL at work and WinXP Pro, use modem at home. All run well. Everytime I need a debug symbol file, I only need type: symchk /v ....
Hope you will like and enjoy this method. Wait for your idea!
Regards