dumprep.exe

[shtick]

Does anyone know if dumprep.exe 0 -k actually does or if it's needed in the run section of the registry?
It seems to do a dump on a user's pc at every bootup and will not allow the pc to function properly?

Thanks,

Shtick

 

[bcastner]

Right-click My Computer, Properties, Advanced, System Starup and Recovery -- Settings, and unceck all boxes under System Failure.

Reboot.

You should check that your virtual memory settings are OK and not corrupt:

http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.hml

I am concerned that it is a possible disk issue. Do a Disk Cleanup, and do a disk check.

 

[linney]

It may be a repeating problem with the machine itself have you checked for any errors in the Event Viewer?

Dumprep.exe is the Windows Error Reporting Dump Reporting Tool after any error it is placed in the Registry automatically to load Dumprep.exe at startup.

You can safely remove it from the registry as Windows will just recreate the entry at the next crash. It is also removed via the Startup items in MsConfig. Doing it that way would give you a popup about Selective Startup which you can ignore and use the check box to dismiss it.

Before you kill the messenger just make sure there is no actual problem with your machine.

 

[linney]

Some of these boxes Bill mentions specify whether Windows will write event information to the system log (Event Viewer) when the system stops unexpectedly. I'd keep that one.

Perhaps he means "write debugging information" being set to none?

 

[bcastner]

linney,

My thought was a hard issue somewhere. Remove all the dump choices. This should remove as well the dumprep entry in startup.

I do not want to boil a cabbage twice (I have wanted to use this phrase for you since I read it earlier this week).

. do a Disk Cleanup
. do a Disk Defragmentation
. do a chkdsk

Then re-enable the error reporting services.

The entry for dumprep.exe should have cleared on its own. The fact that it did not is my concern, hence the disk testing and removal and reinstall of the error service under XP.

 

[linney]

I'm not sure it does clear on its own, often I see it there in the registry days after any dump.

I did read the thread about "boiling cabbages twice", I'm glad you were able to use it on poor old "linney".

 

[bcastner]

linney,

I suspect you are right about forcing a clean dump area. Set the virtual pagefile to 0, reboot, and set it again to a reasonable value.

That should force a clean dumpfile area.
Daniel Petri has some valuable notes, based on Jim Eshelman's terrific research on the issue:

http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm

And my apologies for reusing twice the phrase "boiling cabbages twice", I had never heard it before, and thought it just a terrifc idiom.

Bill

 

[shtick]

Thanks to everyone for the information. When I first booted this pc, I logged into the network and opened email. I never saw any dump or blue screen. Spybot cleaned a couple things from the registry. I looked thru the run sections under local mach/sw/ms/win/curr ver/ and found that dumprep key. I removed it. I rebooted several more times and never saw any problems. I don't suspect hardware as this pc is brand new and only been in production for a couple of weeks.
If it happens again, I'll follow everyone's suggestions. Strangest thing is that of the few thousand pc's we support, none of the other tech have heard of or seen this problem???
Thanks again for the assistance!