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Recently I came to find about a feature (option) by right clicking on process in Task Manager on Windows 10:

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I want to know what does the feature stand for and what can I do with it?

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It's a debugging tool for programmers.

It takes a snapshot of all the stuff that that program has stored in RAM and writes it to a file on disk. Programmers can then pore through that information to try to understand what went wrong.

Memory dumps (core dumps) are mostly useless unless you're a programmer with access to the source code of the program whose memory you dumped to disk.

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    Are memory dump and core dump same?
    – Pandya
    Sep 1, 2017 at 11:07
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    where is the file stored on windows 10 ?
    – firephil
    Mar 16, 2019 at 6:30
  • Nevermind you have to wait until the process of file creation is finished. The process that i wanted to dump crashed before it could finish...
    – firephil
    Mar 16, 2019 at 6:37
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    @firephil You still have an option even when it is crashing. Use "WinDbg" (install with the Windows Development SDK) and use "WinDbg -I" to set it up as what's called the default "post-mortem" debugger. This means as your process is crashing, it will attach "WinDbg" to it. When WinDbg is attached, it is open and you can issue a command to grab a memory dump from it, so you can debug the crashing process.
    – James Harcourt
    Mar 2, 2020 at 13:42

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