How To Force Vista to Dump

[Qwiit]

Since doing a clean install of Vista x64 inc sp1 (technet plus) on Friday
I've had four or five hangs (seemingly windows explorer related), I've had to
do hard resets to get out of.

At the moment, windows explorer has hung, task bar and taskmgr not
functioning.

Is there any way I can force vista to crash and produce a dump file that may
be of use to MS?

 

[Jon]

Since doing a clean install of Vista x64 inc sp1 (technet plus) on Friday
I've had four or five hangs (seemingly windows explorer related), I've had
to
do hard resets to get out of.

At the moment, windows explorer has hung, task bar and taskmgr not
functioning.

Is there any way I can force vista to crash and produce a dump file that
may
be of use to MS?

See if this helps

Windows feature lets you generate a memory dump file by using the keyboard
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244139

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Have you looked over the problem apps?

Information about programs that are known to experience a loss of
functionality when they run on a Windows Vista Service Pack 1-based
computer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935796

Windows Vista Service Pack 1:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Windo...701b-4565-868e-51d1ba47555d1033.mspx?mfr=true

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Mark L. Ferguson

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[V Green]

Have you looked over the problem apps?

Information about programs that are known to experience a loss of
functionality when they run on a Windows Vista Service Pack 1-based
computer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935796

Windows Vista Service Pack 1:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Windo...701b-4565-868e-51d1ba47555d1033.mspx?mfr=true

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Mark L. Ferguson

Mark, Mark, Mark. Did you read the post?

He suspects it's in Explorer, an integral part of the OS. No blaming
anybody else on this one...if SP1 breaks Explorer, it's just another case
of MS using US to beta-test their stuff again.

 

[Daniel Martín [MVP Windows]]

Yes, this KB article explains how to do that:

How to create a user-mode process dump file in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931673/en-us

 

[Qwiit]

Thx, I'll give ADPlus a go, if I've got cmd prompt running and I'm able to
switch to it.