Why does sosex!dlk run forever on Windows 7? - windbg

We recently moved from Windows XP to Windows 7 and ever since the move I've found that I can't run the !dlk command from Sosex in WinDbg anymore, it simply runs forever. It used to be a handy way to catch deadlocks in our code.
Did something change in Sosex that I should know about?
We're on Windows 7 64 bit debugging a crash dump from a x86 process that ran on a Windows 7 64 bit machine.
In the meantime I can try and work through !syncblk, but !dlk was sooooo nice.

As Rockstart said in a comment, major performance improvements have been made to SOSEX in recent weeks. Please let us know if you continue to have difficulty with the latest version of SOSEX. You can also email the address listed in !sosex.help for support.

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VS Code with Julia Extension never completes

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Bluestacks installation does not start after extracting

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Windows 10 Pro, 4 GB Ram.
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Is WinDbg still compatible with Windows XP?

I was looking for a debugger for Windows, other than GDB, which is freely accessible. I found WinDbg and it looks quite good so I wanted to give it a try. Now when I go to the MSDN page it offers to download the SDK for Windows 8. As this is a rather big package, I wonder if I can use this WinDbg version still for Windows XP?
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I'm used to Visual Studio for debugging, which is quite nice. Currently I use Eclipse with GCC and GDB. GDB is good enough, but when I do some assembly I don't really like it, and all in all I don't find it very user friendly.
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Just to ease your download pain, firstly there is the option to select what to download from MSDN, or you can just download the version you want here thanks to a kind person who is hosting the individual components.

Difference between Dbgeng.dll distrubuted with windows 7 and debugging tools for windows package

What's missing in dbgeng.dll in windows 7 Vs the dbgeng.dll distributed with debugging tools for windows ?
Very late to the party on this one but I've run into one very significant difference recently:
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There appear to be other differences also that I didn't dig deeper into - all I knew was a working program using the built in dll started crashing when using the debugging tools one... which was a pain considering I would have liked to use the remote debugging facility out of the box.
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Windows 7 System 32 version:
Dependency walker:
Debugging tools version:
Dependency walker:
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Run Internet Explorer 9 on Windows Xp Professional for testing purposes?

I want to test my web application on Internet Explorer 9 but I don't want to buy a copy of Vista/Win 7 on my developer machine with Windows XP.
Anyone knows a workaround, free and easy?
Use another machine.
Or better, get a set of Virtual Machines established which have an array of operating systems and browsers installed. Build enough VMs, and you are covered for all eventualities, regardless of whether you would personally use them or not.
Link to Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VirtualPC Images
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I've found that IETester is not a bad way to quickly switch between browser versions for testing.
http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOnWindows
You can try running Wine on windows.
This will let you emulate a newer version of Windows
However, it will be really buggy (not mentioning how Wine is already buggy)
Its a unix/linux application ported for Windows
:)
IE 7,8,9
https://browserlab.adobe.com
Use
https://browserling.com
In unpaid version you have 3 minutes to test any site accessed from Internet on any browser.
In paid version you have unlimited sessions and ssh tunneling.