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I had an application crashing on my Windows 7 system and couldn’t find a resulting DMP file anywhere. After some fruitless Googling, I finally found the magic incantation that I needed to get the Windows Error Reporting mechanism to write out a dump for me.

The trick for me was the DumpFolder registry value, described here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb787181(VS.85).aspx

Setting this value to a path on the local machine and setting the DumpType value to 2 finally got me the crash dump that I was looking for.

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