Where does windows error reporting create the dump file

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Question

I just want to find out which location does the WER write its dump file? Also is this location specific to OS?

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Solution

The documentation for WER says you can set registry setting to control the dump location and the type of dump

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\DumpFolder

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\DumpType

Default value for DumpFolder is %LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps.

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