Where does Windows 8 store minidumps from user-mode crashes?
Windows Vista and Windows 7 is documented to (by default) store a crash dump in:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps
A fact supported by observational evidence:
But, when an application crashes on Windows 8:
There are no crash dumps in %LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps
; there isn't even a CrashDumps
folder:
Which leads to the question:
Where does Windows 8 store minidumps from user-mode crashes?
Note: You can ignore everything after the first line; it's just wasted filler.
dir *.dmp /s
,dir *.mdmp /s
from the Windows folder, and the root of my user profile folder.Win+R
and theneventvwr
andENTER
to check the event log.