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Error Report Generator Registry Settings (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)

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1/5/2010

The Error Report Generator API uses the registry to enable error report generation, to locate associated files and directories, and to set maximum sizes for related files.

The Error Report Transfer Driver transfers some necessary registry settings into the memory reserved for dump files. The Error Report Generator reads these settings from the reserved memory to determine what action to take when generating a dump file.

The HKEY_Local_Machine\System\ErrorReporting\DumpSettings registry key enables values for error report generation.

The following table shows the named value.

Value : type Description

DumpDirectory: REG_SZ

Default is \Windows\DumpFiles.

Location of the directory that holds error report files.

Transferred by the Error Report Transfer Driver.

ExtraFilesDirectory: REG_SZ

Default is \Windows\ExtraDumpFiles.

Location of the directory that holds additional files for error report.

Transferred by the Error Report Transfer Driver.

CabDirectory: REG_SZ

Default is \Windows\DumpFiles\CabFiles.

Location of the directory that holds compressed files for error report.

Used by the Report Upload Client for temporary storage of CAB files.

UploadClient: REG_SZ

Default is \Windows\Dw.exe.

Location of the upload client module.

MaxDiskUsage: REG_DWORD

Default is four times the result of DrWatsonGetSize.

Sets maximum size for storing dump files.

MaxLogFiles: REG_DWORD

Default is 3. Sets maximum number of dump log files.

MaxLogFileSize: REG_DWORD

Default is 100 * 1024.

Sets maximum size for dump log files.

DumpEnabled: REG_DWORD

Default is 1.

Enables error report generation.

MaxDumpSize: REG_DWORD

Optional. Default is the result of DrWatsonGetSize.

This advanced setting designates a maximum size for the error report file.

DumpType: REG_DWORD

Optional. Default is 2 (System Dump).

This advanced setting designates the type of dump generated.

Possible values:1     Context Dump2     System Dump

See Also

Other Resources

Error Report Generator
Error Report Transfer Driver
Report Upload Client