This article provides detailed information on how to set up Microsoft Windows NT Symbol Trees, as well as advanced setup tips and tricks.
Symbols provide a way to reference global variables and function names in the loaded executable.
Symbols are produced by the linker. This considerably reduces file size which decreases file load time and thus increases system performance. It also reduces the number of install floppies. The .DBG File contains symbolic information for each file. They can also be found on the NT build server.