This is a follow-up on the LPC hang blog. The same hang troubleshooting techniques apply to this, but when a named pipe is involved you’ll have to use a slightly different method to following the chain from a client application to the server application. For the purpose of this exercise I’ll use the named pipe server (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365588.aspx) and client (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365592.aspx) given by MSDN. Read more: NTDebugging blog