Enable Setting for System Crash Dump Behavior

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This setting enables you to control the information required in the dump file at the time of crash to help support engineers in positive way.
Level: Try but be careful
Description:
This setting enables you to control the information required in the dump file at the time of crash to help support engineers in positive way. The full dump file is very big and will only create confusion. For this, you have to make changes in the registry. Go to "start->run" and enter "regedit" and click "ok". Search the key listed below. Create reg_dword value name called "crashdumpenabled" if not existing and set it as follows: <table><tr><td><center>value</center></td><td><center>description</center></td></tr><tr><td><center>0</center></td><td>debugging information is not written to a file</td></tr><tr><td><center>1</center></td><td>complete crash dump is written to a file</td></tr><tr><td><center>2</center></td><td>kernel memory dump is written to a file</td></tr><tr><td><center>3</center></td><td>small memory dump is written to a file</td></tr></table> after restart or logoff, changes take effect. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.




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First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type 'regedit'.
Next, go to <b> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl\] </b> , right click on the DWORD value 'CrashDumpEnabled' and select 'Modify'.
Finally set a user defained value from 0 to 3 and click 'OK'.


Registry Entries

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  • Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl\]
  • Location: Local Machine
  • Value Name: CrashDumpEnabled
  • Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
  • Action Type: Modified