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Windows: Crash Dump Locations

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Common locations where Windows stores application crash dump files.

User Account Crash Dumps

  • %LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps\ (typically C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\CrashDumps\)

System Account Crash Dumps

  • C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\CrashDumps\ (Local System)

Credit: Referenced from Helge Klein's blog post on creating application crash dumps - consulted approximately a quadrillion times.

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