How to Automatically Generate Crash Dumps of Crashing Applications

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To force Windows to automatically generate crash dumps of crashing programs, set the following values in the registry using RegEdit.exe. When an application crashes, a crash dump file named after that application will be saved in the c:\LocalDumps folder.

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

Please contact our technical support team for the crash dump upload URL specific to the relevant support ticket. Alternatively, crash dumps may be uploaded to any personal online storage, and the link provided to our technical support team.

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



Last updated: June 12, 2026.