Is it Vista?

[Alloy]

I bought a Celeron M laptop with Windows Vista installed and installed Visual C++ 2003 and Visual C++ 2005 Express to use it's debugger. Neither debugger displays SSE and SSE2 registers. Is this beacause of Vista or some registry key setting?

[Tedd]

I don't remember that they actually do - at least not by default; there may be a way to view them.
(Get a proper debugger :bdg www.ollydbg.de)

[Ehtyar]

If i may, what debugger does vs use? (I hate IDEs, so never used its debugger) I'd guess windbg, but i use olly and freeida myself.

Thanks, Ehtyar.

[PBrennick]

Make no mistake about it, windbg is the most horrible debugger I ever evaluated. My vote is for olly, also.

Paul

[lingo]

- select menu debug->windows->registers (new window will apear)   :wink
- right click on the registers window and select SSE & SSE2 registers to show up.
You should be able to select SSE and SSE2 register formats for display in the window.
If they are greyed out you can try this:

Find out where is your devenv.exe file:  :wink
Example: For me it is here:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
Next:
- right mouse button -> Properties
- click Compatibility
- mark  Run this program in compatibility mode for:
  and select Windows XP (Service pack 2)
- Apply and OK
- retstart devenv.exe

Regards,
Lingo

[Alloy]

Thanks Lingo.  I just went ahead and installed XP and it works ok.

[lingo]

"I just went ahead and installed XP.."

I have a triple-boot system   :wink
and I use boot menu with Vista enterprise,
Windows XP Pro (SP2)  and Mac X OS 10.4.6

Why? If I have a temporary problem (viruses, etc)
with one OS I can postpone solving the problem and
continue with the other OS immediately

I have MS Visual Studio 2005 and it works well
from the same directory (folder) under the Vista and XP
Under XP Pro (SP2) I can use DriverStudio v.3.2 with
SoftICE debugger too..  :wink   

Regards,
Lingo

[Alloy]

 I use True Image to repair my XP OS.

After the weekend of Vista I'm back to using XP, probably for a few more years. It took awhile to hunt down correct XP drivers since this thing officially only has Vista drivers.