How To Force Vista to Dump

Since doing a clean install of Vista x64 inc sp1 (technet plus) on Friday
I've had four or five hangs (seemingly windows explorer related), I've had to
do hard resets to get out of.

At the moment, windows explorer has hung, task bar and taskmgr not
functioning.

Is there any way I can force vista to crash and produce a dump file that may
be of use to MS?

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Qwiit

"Qwiit" <> wrote in message
news:B13F1A93-15EA-47A5-A7A2-...
> Since doing a clean install of Vista x64 inc sp1 (technet plus) on Friday
> I've had four or five hangs (seemingly windows explorer related), I've had
> to
> do hard resets to get out of.
>
> At the moment, windows explorer has hung, task bar and taskmgr not
> functioning.
>
> Is there any way I can force vista to crash and produce a dump file that
> may
> be of use to MS?
>
> --
> Qwiit



See if this helps

Windows feature lets you generate a memory dump file by using the keyboard
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244139

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Jon

Have you looked over the problem apps?

Information about programs that are known to experience a loss of
functionality when they run on a Windows Vista Service Pack 1-based
computer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935796

Windows Vista Service Pack 1:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window....mspx?mfr=true

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Mark L. Ferguson

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"Qwiit" <> wrote in message
news:B13F1A93-15EA-47A5-A7A2-...
> Since doing a clean install of Vista x64 inc sp1 (technet plus) on Friday
> I've had four or five hangs (seemingly windows explorer related), I've had
> to
> do hard resets to get out of.
>
> At the moment, windows explorer has hung, task bar and taskmgr not
> functioning.
>
> Is there any way I can force vista to crash and produce a dump file that
> may
> be of use to MS?
>
> --
> Qwiit

"Mark L. Ferguson" <> wrote in message
news:550751A7-4AB8-4893-9046-...
> Have you looked over the problem apps?
>
> Information about programs that are known to experience a loss of
> functionality when they run on a Windows Vista Service Pack 1-based
> computer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935796
>
> Windows Vista Service Pack 1:
>
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window....mspx?mfr=true
>
> --
> Was this helpful? Then click the "Yes" Ratings button. Voting helps the web
> interface.
> http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales....htm#RateAPost
>
> Mark L. Ferguson

Mark, Mark, Mark. Did you read the post?

He suspects it's in Explorer, an integral part of the OS. No blaming
anybody else on this one...if SP1 breaks Explorer, it's just another case
of MS using US to beta-test their stuff again.


>
> .
> "Qwiit" <> wrote in message
> news:B13F1A93-15EA-47A5-A7A2-...
> > Since doing a clean install of Vista x64 inc sp1 (technet plus) on Friday
> > I've had four or five hangs (seemingly windows explorer related), I've had
> > to
> > do hard resets to get out of.
> >
> > At the moment, windows explorer has hung, task bar and taskmgr not
> > functioning.
> >
> > Is there any way I can force vista to crash and produce a dump file that
> > may
> > be of use to MS?
> >
> > --
> > Qwiit
>

Yes, this KB article explains how to do that:

How to create a user-mode process dump file in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931673/en-us

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Regards,
Daniel MartÃ*n
Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience


"Qwiit" <> wrote in message
news:B13F1A93-15EA-47A5-A7A2-...
> Since doing a clean install of Vista x64 inc sp1 (technet plus) on Friday
> I've had four or five hangs (seemingly windows explorer related), I've had
> to
> do hard resets to get out of.
>
> At the moment, windows explorer has hung, task bar and taskmgr not
> functioning.
>
> Is there any way I can force vista to crash and produce a dump file that
> may
> be of use to MS?
>
> --
> Qwiit

Thx, I'll give ADPlus a go, if I've got cmd prompt running and I'm able to
switch to it.

--
Qwiit


"Daniel MartÃ*n [MVP Windows]" wrote:

> Yes, this KB article explains how to do that:
>
> How to create a user-mode process dump file in Windows Vista
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931673/en-us
>
> --
> Regards,
> Daniel MartÃ*n
> Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience
>
>
> "Qwiit" <> wrote in message
> news:B13F1A93-15EA-47A5-A7A2-...
> > Since doing a clean install of Vista x64 inc sp1 (technet plus) on Friday
> > I've had four or five hangs (seemingly windows explorer related), I've had
> > to
> > do hard resets to get out of.
> >
> > At the moment, windows explorer has hung, task bar and taskmgr not
> > functioning.
> >
> > Is there any way I can force vista to crash and produce a dump file that
> > may
> > be of use to MS?
> >
> > --
> > Qwiit
>
>