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منظور از فایلهای Dump در كامپیوتر چیست؟

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Dear Ali,

Thank you very much for your question. As I know you I never though you ask me a very easy question like this. Anyway here is your reply:

A dump file stores data from memory during a system crash and can be helpful when diagnosing problems, but like a swap file, it can also expose a lot of sensitive, unencrypted data. To prevent Windows from creating the file, go to Control Panel | System. Click on the Advanced tab and then the Settings button on the Startup and Recovery pane. Set the drop-down menu under Write debugging information to (none). Similarly, the debugging program Dr. Watson saves information when applications crash. To disable it, go to HKEY_local_machine\software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ AeDebug and set the Auto string to 0. Then use Windows Explorer to go to Documents and Settings\All Users\Shared Documents\DrWatson. Delete User.dmp and Drwtsn32.log, the insecure logs the program creates.

Also, if you would like to create a Dump file in windows NT/2000/XP, you should follow these steps:
Open your registry and find the key below.
Change the value of "CrashDumpEnabled" according to the options in the table below.
· 0 = None
· 1 = Complete memory dump
· 2 = Kernel memory dump
· 3 = Small memory dump (64KB)
Restart Windows for the change to take effect.
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For more information check out these sites:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,895354,00.asp
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/820/
www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.12/behind.html

Good luck,