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Taking Windows Memory Dump

Enabling a Complete Memory Dump

  1. Enabling a Complete Memory Dump
  2. Press the Windows key with the letter R to open the run command
  3. Type sysdm.cpl and click Ok to open the System Properties page
  4. Select the Advanced tab
  5. Under Startup and Recovery options choose Settings
  6. From the drop-down menu select Complete memory dump
  7. Note the path where the dump file will be saved for later
  8. Click Ok

Creating a Memory Dump

Download and run NotMyFault from the following link: NotMyFault

# To create a memory dump
NotMyFault64.exe /crash

The memory dump will be saved in the path specified in the previous step. It's C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP by default.

Notice that the memory dump file can be very large, depending on the amount of RAM installed on the system.