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You can set Windows to generate a memory dump file should a process crash.
This makes debugging much easier.

=Description=
A memory crash dump is a file that contains the memory of a process that was running.
The steps to configure Windows to generate these files is a process unexpectedly exist are described [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wer/collecting-user-mode-dumps here] and [https://www.meziantou.net/tip-automatically-create-a-crash-dump-file-on-error.htm here.]

=Sample Script=
The following PowerShell script will configure a machine to write a maximum of 500 crash dumps to a folder named "C:\ClusterStorage\Scratch\U05\CrashDumps"
<source lang="powershell">
New-Item -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting" -Name "LocalDumps"
New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps" -Name "DumpFolder" -Value "C:\ClusterStorage\Scratch\U05\CrashDumps" -PropertyType "ExpandString"
New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps" -Name "DumpCount" -Value 500 -PropertyType DWord
New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps" -Name "DumpType" -Value 1 -PropertyType DWord
</source>

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