Disable System Error Memory Dump Files
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That Saves Your Disk Space Every time when your Windows system encounters a major system crash, it throws a BSOD, the famous Blue Screen of Death, and collects data from the memory into a system error memory dump files location memory dump file saved on the local hard drive in case a further investigation of system error memory dump files windows 7 why the crash occurs is needed. The memory dump file contains some important information that is helpful to those advanced debuggers and system system error memory dump files delete administrators who want to know more about the crash in order to develop a cure for the cause. But the problem is that the size of these memory dump files are often quite big, several hundreds of
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MBs, and most of the time they are useless to the end users who don't care about or don't know how to use them. If you don't set them right, it could eat up your space quite a bit for nothing. In some worst cases where a crash keeps happening, it could fill up all your hard drive space fairly quickly. Where to check the memory dump settings? The memory dump settings are located system error memory dump files not deleting in Startup and Recovery window. Here is the path how you can locate it. Control Panel → System and Security → System → Advanced System Settings (on the left panel) → Settings in Startup and Recovery section. Types of memory dump In Windows 7, it's by default set to Kernel memory dump that saves an image of the core memory at the point the major malfunction occurred. You can change to Small memory dump that records the smallest set of useful information that may help identify why your computer has stopped unexpectedly. You can change them by selecting it from the drop-down menu under Write debugging information. You can also choose Complete memory dump that saves all the contents of system memory. For some reason, the Complete memory dump option doesn't show up on my Windows 7 machine but do list on both my Windows 8 and Windows XP computers. Windows 8 added a new default option, Automatic memory dump, introduced to support the new "System Managed" page file configuration. 3 options to save your hard drive spaces Firstly, if you absolutely don't care, you can set to None from the same drop-down menu to tell the system not to save any memory dump file. Even though it's not highly recommended, it's up to you if hard drive space has more value. Secondly, use Small memory dump. Be
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6035112/disable-application-crash-dumps-on-windows-7 of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: system error Sign up Disable application crash dumps on Windows 7 up vote 5 down vote favorite 1 Silly question: How do I prevent Windows 7 from storing the memory dump of a crashed application? I'm experimenting with the stack allocation in a C++ application, so the toy program crashes a lot. And for each crash, Windows dumps the memory to the %USER%/AppData/Local/CrashDumps. It's system error memory about 150MB each. How do I disable this? I've searched the internet far and wide. The only thing I could find on Windows 7 is System→Advanced→Startup and Recovery→System failure crash dumps, and I already disabled these. It's not really a big deal, just annoying because it sits in my user profile. windows-7 crash-dumps share|improve this question edited Apr 22 at 4:22 mrt 3,35042031 asked May 17 '11 at 18:02 Norbert P. 2,09211019 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 3 down vote I think the mechanism responsible for creating all those dump files on your system is WER (Windows Error Reporting). You can read on how to disable it there: http://www.techrena.net/windows/disable-windows-7-error-reporting/ Press Win + R to open the Windows Run command.Type “services.msc” in the run command bar and hit ‘OK’. This will open up Services window where you can see list of all the services that are currently available on your Windows. Right click on the Windows Error Reporting Service and choose “Properties". The startup type will be either in “Automatic” or “Manual” by default. To completely disable the service