Capturing Microsoft Crash Dump

Steps to capture the Microsoft Crash Dump

Pre requisite

Machine should have 'Debugging tools for Windows' installed.If not download and install from this location : http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/installx86.mspx

Note:The above package will install windbg.Note the path of windbg.exe.we will use this to capture the crash dump

Steps

1]Open the Registry using Regedit

2]Open the following key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug"

3]Take the backup of the AeDebug regisrty key.This is to restore the original settings once the crash dump is captured.

4]To take backup, right click on 'AeDebug' and select 'Export' option.Specify the name and location to store this.

5]Now set AeDebug\Auto key to 1

6]Set AeDebug\Debugger key to 

"" -p%ld -e%ld -g -c ".dump /mfa C:\\dump %ld.dump:q"

7]Try to reproduce the issue.On crash windbg will start and generate the crash dump file at C:\ location.

8]Restore the original settings by double clicking the file exported earlier in step 4

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