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Lately, I am having multiple Bluescreen crashes and freezings daily. To find out the cause I tried to use the program BlueScreenView from Nir Sofer.

Unfortunately, the directory "C:\Windows\MiniDump" is empty. I can remember that there is a system setting causing the Minidumps folder being empty even after many Bluescreen crashes, but I can't remember what this setting was.

My OS is Windows 7 x64 SP2.

Can anybody tell me why the directory "C:\Windows\MiniDump" is empty and how to find the cause of my Bluescreen crashes and freezings with the BlueScreenView program?

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Can anybody tell me why the directory "C:\Windows\MiniDump" is empty?

Make sure you have dumps enabled:

  1. Start > "Control Panel" > "System"

  2. Click "Advanced system settings"

  3. In the "System Properties" dialog select the "Advanced" tab

  4. In the "Startup and Recovery" section click "Settings"

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  5. In the "Startup and Recovery" dialog "Write debugging information" select "Kernel Memory Dump" (or "Small memory Dump")

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  6. Click "OK", then click "OK" a second time

  7. Wait for a BSOD

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  • David, thank you very much. When clicking OK the first time I got a message:
    – user1580348
    Commented Dec 27, 2016 at 22:25
  • David, thank you very much. When clicking OK the first time I got a message: "Possibly no data can be saved to be used for identification of system errors because the current Auslagerungs-file has been deactivated or is smaller than 800 MB. Click OK to return to the window for the settings with the virtual memory, activate the Auslagerungs- file and set it to a value higher than 800 MB ..."
    – user1580348
    Commented Dec 27, 2016 at 22:31
  • Now in the dialog for the Auslagerungs-file I have the following choices: Checkbox (which is currently unchecked) "Manage the Auslagerungs-file for all drives automatically or ..." see this screenshot: i.imgur.com/lyA2XJT.png I should say that my system partition C: is on a SSD.
    – user1580348
    Commented Dec 27, 2016 at 22:39
  • You need to go to the "Performance" section and click "Settings". Select the "Advanced" tab. In the "Virtual memory" section click "Change". Make sure you have more than 800 MB for your paging file.
    – DavidPostill ♦
    Commented Dec 27, 2016 at 22:40
  • "Checkbox (which is currently unchecked) "Manage the Auslagerungs-file for all drives automatically" - Enable (check) this box.
    – DavidPostill ♦
    Commented Dec 27, 2016 at 22:44

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