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    What does vista do with ram dumps?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by revoletion, Aug 14, 2007.

  1. revoletion

    revoletion Notebook Consultant

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    Ok so i look at the HDD status today and see that its got 47 gigs free.
    last night when i closed down my computer it was at 32 gigs free. The computer crashed yesterday as i put it to hibernate (it seems to have trouble shutting down sometimes) so i assume it went off and did a ram dump like usual. The only thing that i can think of that is cloging the HDD that bad was my video files which take up 22gigs. the other thing that i could think of that would clog pretty badly would be the ram dumps, (2gigs of ram = 2 gig dump?). My question is:
    What does vista do with ram dumps.
    where does it put them?
    When does it deleat them?

    Thanks in advance.
     
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    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    They are in minidmp files. I regularly clear them. See This for more info.
     
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  3. revoletion

    revoletion Notebook Consultant

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    thank you!
     
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    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    I updated that link with a screen print of a batch program I run now and again to look for stuff that might be eligible for being deleted. Feel free to use it if you want. Note that I do not just delete everything under all of those directories, I pick and choose!
     
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    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    BTW, you can change where Vista places those mini dumps, or if they are full or kernal dumps instead, or even if it takes them at all.

    START/right-click on Computer/Properties/Advanced System Settings/Advanced tab/Startup and Recovery section/Settings.
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Aug 15, 2007
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