However, more subtle forms of corrruption might still be present in the file. Tools Included in Debugging Tools for Windows. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Submit and view feedback for This product This page. View all page feedback. Last Updated: October 7, Tested. Luigi has over 25 years of experience in general computer repair, data recovery, virus removal, and upgrades.
He is also the host of the Computer Man Show! The wikiHow Tech Team also followed the article's instructions and verified that they work. This article has been viewed , times. This wikiHow teaches you how to analyze your Windows computer's dump files after a crash.
Dump files, which are automatically created by Windows after your computer crashes, display a list of programs that were running before the crash; this can help you determine which programs are responsible for the crash.
If you're anticipating another crash or you want to test a program, you can use a free program called BlueScreenView to analyze your dump files. You can also use the free Windows 10 Drivers Kit to open dump files from a past crash.
A memory dump file is a file that's taken from RAM. RAM has a number of allocation tables—or buckets—inside. A memory dump file is an entire download of whatever was inside that file when a catastrophic failure happened, and it goes into a log so an engineer or a software professional can look at it and see where the conflict happened.
Type "advanced system settings" into the Windows search bar. Click View advanced system settings. Click Advanced. Click Settings under "Startup and Recovery". Select "Small memory dump" from the drop-down. Click OK twice. Install BlueScreenView. Open BlueScreenView to find the dump. Did this summary help you? Yes No. Log in Social login does not work in incognito and private browsers. Please log in with your username or email to continue. No account yet? Create an account. Edit this Article.
We use cookies to make wikiHow great. By using our site, you agree to our cookie policy. Cookie Settings. Learn why people trust wikiHow. Download Article Explore this Article parts. Tips and Warnings. Related Articles. Article Summary. Part 1. Type in view advanced system settings. It's a computer monitor with a checkmark icon at the top of the Start menu. Doing so opens the Advanced System Settings window. Click the Advanced tab. You'll see this at the top of the window.
You may first have to click the computer monitor-shaped icon that appears at the bottom of the screen to open the Advanced System Settings window. Click Settings. It's below the "Startup and Recovery" heading near the bottom of the page. Doing this will open a separate window.
Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. I would not install the MS debugging tools - unless you are really interested in how to understand crash dump files most people aren't.
That advice is flaccid. You should remove any kind of DMP or. The, after that, if your system crashes and you get a Blue Screen of Death BSOD , start a new thread about that crash and somebody that actually knows how XP works and already has the debugging tools installed and knows how to use them can help you figure out what is going on. Your system should not be crashing. Sometimes the crashes are easy to figure out, sometimes you might need to accumulate 4 or 5 crash dumps to get enough clues to figure out the problem.
The reply doesn't have to work, it doesn't have to be right and it doesn't even have to make sense - it just has to have a link to a KB article to "count" for their quotas. In reply to A. User's post on April 27, Hello Azeez N and Thanks for your reply. I had read that article , but I don't think it is a minidump file ; if it is it is gigantic - 0. Hi again Joselbarra and Thank you for your reply. The reason the 0. In reply to Gus Russell's post on April 28, I don't think opening the large dump file will help you.
Even if XP thinks it is an Adobe file, obviously it ain't. If it is that big, it sounds like some other kind of file. If it is annoying and you can't figure out what to do with it, get rid of it or move it to some other folder for a while and delete it sometime in the future when you get tired of looking at it.
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