An old 'new newbie learning how to hack (again!)

I'm trying to crack an application related a consultancy job, but I'm newbie (a long, long, long time ago I knew more, but it was in DOS age) and I haven't many time to learning many things about it. So, after a quickly search, I found Windbg, but, sinceraly, it's piece of bullshit. I wasted my entire day trying to break the key checking mechanism using the Windbg, but it doesn't help me much.

OllyDbg

If you need a good (excelent!!!) software to crack (or to do reverse engineering), try the OllyDbg - it's fantastic: easy to use, intuitive, useful, and powerful! OllyDbg is shareware, but you can use it without paying nothing, if you want (or need).

Using Win32SDK Help and Windows Symbols with OllyDbg

OllyDbg automatically recognizes symbols and when you want, it launchs the Win32Help to the specific topic of the symbol!

If you need the Win32SDK help files, download it, here: win32hlp. If you use the Windows Vista, you need to download the Win32Hlp.exe from Microsoft.

Also, the Microsoft Windows Symbolic Information can be found at Download Windows Symbol Packages from Microsofot.