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 within the registry using RegEdit.exe. Upon an app crash, the crash dump file with the corresponding name will be stored in the 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 the crash dump upload URL that is specific to your support ticket. Alternatively, you may upload crash dumps to your own online storage and provide our technical support with the link.

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: Oct 16, 2025.