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Alexandru
Alexandru

Reputation: 12902

Why aren't mini-dumps being created by Windows?

I have an x64-platform application running on Windows 8.1, x64...it crashes from time to time (its a multibyte, COM+ object hosted in a Windows service). I wanted to get the OS to write mini-dump files whenever an exception happens, so I set the following keys up in my registry:

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Yet when a crash does occur, I see nothing in %LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps. Why is this happening? Is it because the service is running under the Local System account?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1689

Answers (1)

Alexandru
Alexandru

Reputation: 12902

As it turns out, the dumps were being created. They were being created in C:\Windows\System32\%LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps. This is because %LOCALAPPDATA% maps contextually under the context of a user account. If you use the Local System account for a service, this doesn't translate to anything...so it just appends to the default path of Local System which is C:\Windows\System32. Kind of a funny way to handle this case, M$...

Upvotes: 5

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