How to Automatically Generate Crashdumps of Crashing Applications

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To force Windows to automatically generate crashdumps of crashing programs, set the following values within the registry using RegEdit.exe. Upon an app crash, the crashdump file with corresponding name will be stored in c:\LocalDumps folder.

Create the following registry key (if it does not exist already):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps
Set STRING value named DumpFolder to value c:\LocalDumps
Set DWORD value named DumpCount to value 10
Set DWORD value named DumpType to value 2

Please contact our technical support team for crashdump upload URL that is specific to your support ticket. Alternatively, you may upload crashdumps to your own online storage and provide our technical support with the link.

For more information about the Windows crashdump collection settings see:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wer/collecting-user-mode-dumps)

Last updated: Sep 19, 2022.