Neemobeer

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*Updated Link to Update 3 of the Debug tool* - 10/29/2020

This is a guide to on how to capture information that will allow us to better help you solve your "Application Crash" problems. In order to get the needed information for analysis you will need to download the Debug Diagnostic application from Microsoft and administrator rights on your system. The Application and be found here: Link Removed Go ahead and install it once you've downloaded it.

Now launch the newly installed program by pressing the [Windows key] and search debug diag, you shouldn't need to type in the entire thing.
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We want to do a crash capture, so we will select Crash and click Next
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We want to select "A specific process"
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You can either manually type the program name or if it is currently running select it from the list. I wrote a program called CrashTest.exe for this guide. Click Next when you have your crashing program selected.
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Now we need to select what we want Debug Diag to capture. If you don't know the exception code use section (1) below to specify "Mini Dump" and 1-5 chances. If you know the exception code, you can use the Exceptions button to configure special capture options shown in blue below. Click Next when finished.
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Now we need to specify a location the captures will be saved, for this you can choose any location, I chose my desktop in a folder called Test If the folder doesn't exist you will be prompted to create it.
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Finally you will need to activate the rule
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Now we can see the rule is created and are dump count is 0
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Now run your program in whatever way causes it to crash and you should see the Userdump Count increase.
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If we open the folder we specified for are dumps we will see a .dmp file and .txt file. The last step is to zip and upload this directory to the site for analysis.
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Solution
Lets diagnose the issue by referring to the following issue diagnosing methods and check the issue status.

Method 1:

Ensure that you have installed available Windows updates, including Optional updates and check the issue status.

Method 2:


I would suggest you to perform a clean boot and check if it helps.

Clean boot will check if any third party application is causing the issue, as clean boot helps in eliminating software conflicts.

Method 3:

To isolate the issue, I suggest you to create another user account and check if the issue persists. This will determine if the issue is a profile corruption. To do that, follow the steps below.
  1. Go to Start menu.
  2. Click on Settings.
  3. Choose Accounts.
  4. Select...
Could you put this in r/techsupport as well? It would be very helpful for us techs to get the basic troubleshooting out of the way before we have someone ask for help.
 

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