Disable memory dumps?

[kol12]

If I disable the creation of memory dumps will mini dumps still be created?

 

[kol12]

Right I see that you can set it just to create mini dumps if that is all that you want...

 

[Colif]

generally its enough to fix any BSOD you might have. Memory dumps can grow to several gb in size, minidumps only 256kb, slightly easier to upload and sort through I assume.

 

[kol12]

Minidumps should be easier to work with. Generally what sort of system errors will create a memory dump? I notice that in Event Viewer that the source is usually 'BugCheck' and that they're usually event 1001.

What is the difference between a BugCheck and other errors you might see in Event Viewer?

 

[Colif]

I think bugchecks are BSOD, most errors in event viewer won't crash the system, or even be mentioned to the user.

See Here

BSOD create memory dumps, I am not sure what else does as there are kernel dump files that grow over time so i think windows creates reports on most operations and they create dumps.

 

[kol12]

Right so probably only really system crashes that will create a memory dump. Thanks for the link.

I've answered my original question and you've answered my second question.