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user.DMP?????????????
Name: Vivider Aphid Date: January 29, 2001 at 11:26:39 Pacific
Comment:
what the heck is this file? it is in my winnt directory and its 105177KB!!
Name: Vivider Aphid Date: January 29, 2001 at 11:41:06 Pacific
Reply:
Could it be something to do with good ol Dr. Watson?..... in any case i deleted it and my system isn't hosed. :)
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Response Number 2
Name: Mike Date: January 29, 2001 at 11:49:50 Pacific
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This is a file that is refered to as the BSOD this is the text file of your physical memory.
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Response Number 3
Name: Richard Bryant Date: April 10, 2001 at 11:44:53 Pacific
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The file User.dmp is generated by Dr. Watson to log errors. It can be sent to Microsoft Technical support for diagnosis, but is not very useful to the end user, and it is not critical that it be backed up. It can safely be deleted. See Q278689 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
Summary: I have a file on NT 4.0 Workstation called USER.DMP, its 220mb in size. Does anyone know what that file is used for and can it be deleted for NT to operate normally? Thanks for the help...
Summary: check c:\temp, also look for user.dmp file in c:\winnt, also, do a file search, under advanced you can look for anything over a few meg to see if there's anything big on the drive. ...
Summary: I have a file on NT 4.0 Workstation that is called USER.DMP, it is 220mb in size and i am running out of space on the NT partition. Does anyone know what this file is used for? Thanks for your help...
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