• Windows XP

    Windows memory dump files.

    One reason not to disable virtual memory on any Windows boxen is that you might need to grab information from a dump file. If a booted OS doesn’t have at least 2MB of virtual memory then no dump file. The default location of memory dump files in Windows XP is %systemroot%/minidump (btw %systemroot% is your Windows install directory). These are created as a result of a blue screen (bsod is not your friend – unless you’re testing a DoS). Since blue screens are typically due to hardware or drivers, and there are often many of each of those, it can help to check out the dump files. If you have…