Alternatives to DebugView?

Feel free to try SmartInspect. It comes with the things you've listed, and we have libraries for Delphi, .NET and Java. Also there's an unsupported Python port by one of our customers. It also has high-resolution timestamps and other unique features not found in other tools such as log file encryption, a fast named-pipe log protocol (in addition to TCP logging), backlog queues etc.


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I was recently looking for the exact same thing and came across Trace Spy. It ended up not working for me, and I am still using DebugView for now. However, one trick I learned in the process is that it is possible to setup a Windows 7 shortcut so that it automatically runs DebugView in administrator mode:

DebugView Shortcut Settings

This allows you access to more features that are disabled by UAC such as:

  • Capture Global Win32
  • Capture Kernel

I agree with some of the other posts that DebugView is a good tool. I just think it would be nice to get an update that is compatible with Windows 7. Or even an installer!


Recently, buggazer was discontinued in favor of a native c++ implementation called Debugview++. See https://github.com/CobaltFusion/DebugViewPP

It currently already has most of the features requested in the original question.