Where does windows error reporting create the dump file

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imak picture imak · Jan 6, 2012 · Viewed 21.4k times · Source

I just want to find out which location does the WER write its dump file? Also is this location specific to OS?

Answer

jcopenha picture jcopenha · Jan 6, 2012

The documentation for WER says you can set registry setting to control the dump location and the type of dump

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\DumpFolder

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\DumpType

Default value for DumpFolder is %LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps.

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