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Disk Cleanup questions!!!
Name: Joey Date: August 4, 2002 at 02:28:25 Pacific
Comment:
One of the file types in my "Disk Cleanup" is called "DEBUG DUMP FILES" and they takeup a huge amount of space... My questions are, exactly what are these files, and can I safely delete them...Thanks...
Name: Joey Date: August 4, 2002 at 02:42:14 Pacific
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Okay, after a little searching, I found that most of that room is taken up by one file "Memory.dmp", which is in the windows folder, but still haven't found out what it is and if it can be safely deleted........
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Response Number 2
Name: Joey Date: August 4, 2002 at 03:13:00 Pacific
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OK, now I found this, but can it be deleted safely from my system...
A physical memory dump is basically a file whose content contains the content of your memory at the time of crash. The default setting is set to "Complete Memory Dump" under (which can be changed):
My Computer->Advanced->Startup and Recovery->Settings.
Essentially, this file is used for debugging and troubleshooting purposes (only programmers and tech support folks would have any real use with it). By examining the content of the dump file, the debugger may be able to pinpoint the cause of the crash at runtime. The size of the memory dump file varies. If the computer is set to capture Complete Memory Dump, then the file can range from a few megabytes to several hundred (depending on how much memory was used at the time of crashed). The dump file can be found under %SystemRoot%\Memory.dmp (where %SystemRoot% refers to your Windows directory).
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Response Number 3
Name: sandman Date: August 4, 2002 at 03:23:07 Pacific
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Yes you can safely delete the files. The debug files are pretty much unless to the average pc user.
Hope this helps
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Response Number 4
Name: Ron Watts Date: August 4, 2002 at 05:42:12 Pacific
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Yes dump the dump files I do no problems all they are for is error reporting to MS
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