Window Detective/Winspector alternative for 64-bit?

[RiseUp]

Does anyone happen to know of an alternative software to Window Detective or Winspector that can listen for messages of a 64-bit process (I'm on Windows 8, if that changes anything)?

[Wade Hatler]

Spy++ will do that. Download the Windows SDK or Visual Studio Express and you'll find it there.

[RiseUp]

Thank you! After searching around for a while, I was starting to think there wasn't any option out there for 64-bit processes.

I just downloaded and installed Visual Studio Express 2012. Unfortunately, Spy++ is not included in the Express version. Off to check out getting it via the Windows SDK, or maybe just installing Visual Studio Professional and using it for the 90-day trial...

[Wade Hatler]

It's not obvious but the filename is Spyxx.exe, not Spy++. In Visual Studio it's in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Tools\spyxx.exe

or similar.

[RiseUp]

I actually searched the VS folders for spyxx and found nothing, and then googled to find out that it's not included in the Express version. I'm installing Professional as we speak, so I should have it soon. *fingers crossed* Thank you again for your help.

[joedf]

coolio!

[RiseUp]

Excellent! I got it and it works perfectly! Thank you very much, Wade Hatler!

[Wade Hatler]

My pleasure.

[SAbboushi]

Note that in VS2013, I believe there are 2 versions of spyxx:
32-bit: spyxx.exe
64-bit: spyxx_amd64.exe