Eddie On Everything

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1. thank you so much. this helped me a bunch.

   billy oliver

   Comment by oliver — June 27, 2006 #

2. Thank you very much, i used to kill the process because i usually had 3 or 4 running, taking all the CPU, this helps a lot, i never thought about this solution

   Comment by harold — June 29, 2006 #

3. fabulous tip - a most annoying and entirely useless “winfeature” gone!!
   Thanks Eddie

   Comment by raj — June 29, 2006 #

4. I really appreciate that you were willing to provide such a simple and precise solution to this annoying phenomenon - I’ve been cursing this XP machine ever since I got it!

   Comment by molly — June 29, 2006 #

5. thank you, kind sir, for sharing this information.

   Comment by charles — July 5, 2006 #

6. Thank you very much!!!!

   Comment by kiddo — July 9, 2006 #

7. you are the man.

   Comment by kill.george.w. — July 11, 2006 #

8. amazing, i just had that problem, my CPU was totally taken up with 3 dumprep processes (not the first time it happened) and so i had to find this program. thank you very much!!!

   Comment by mark — July 12, 2006 #

9. Excellent. Thank you very much

   Comment by Charlie B. — July 14, 2006 #

10. Great tip, the dumprep.exe feature had me going for a while. Your info cleared this worthless irritation.

    Comment by Paul L. Lenig — July 18, 2006 #

11. LOVE it!!! (Do they call it “dumb-prep” for a reason, I wonder — if not, they should) Thanks so much.

    Comment by Jax — July 19, 2006 #

12. Thank you for this useful information. This useless program was sucking up all of my CPU.

    Comment by Gary — July 22, 2006 #

13. Eddie, you RULE!

    The stupid dumprep would bog my system down at 10 pm EVERY NIGHT.

    I finally got brave and shut them down but searching forums all over the net realized it would keep happening.

    I also noticed that since this problem started the Microsoft window asking if I wanted to report the error or not stopped popping up.

    Anything thanks!

    Comment by Rich Elvers — July 25, 2006 #

14. Thanks its been bugging me for some time now

    Comment by bill — July 25, 2006 #

15. Great, I’ve been looking for this and now i’ve found it :-D

    thanks !

    Comment by Ruud — July 27, 2006 #

16. Thanks so much! Such a simple fix for a windows annoyance!

    Comment by JD — July 28, 2006 #

17. Thank you! This is really a totally useless program… rarely did I ever get any real solutions from error reporting… they (MS) just dump the data somewhere and probably do nothing with it… Thank you, Eddie!
    Jeff Williams, OP, KS

    Comment by Jeff Williams — July 28, 2006 #

18. My error reporting service has been disabled for some time. However, I still get one instance of dumprep.exe running when a program hangs.Have to cntl alt del and end process manually. Spooky huh.

    Comment by Hal Harris — July 28, 2006 #

19. I got here through the WindowsSecrets.com website. They mentioned your solution. What a help!

    Comment by Steve — August 11, 2006 #

20. There is a facility in Win2k that also writes a dump report! You can neutralise it by going to File|Properties|Advanced|Startup and Recovery|Write Debugging Information which defaults to a MiniDump but can be reset to None!!

    Yes it also improves recovery times

    Tom

    Comment by Tom Chambers — August 11, 2006 #

21. It is a good thing to disable this as it is fairly useless (I disabled mine years ago). However, those of you who got this process a lot means you’re also getting a lot of crashes. I would wonder instead why you are craching so much. You might want to see why the “check engine light” keeps coming on instead of simply pulling the “bulb” out.

    Comment by Enigma — August 14, 2006 #

22. This is the frist time I’ve been on this site. Where have you been all my life? You’re awesome! I wonder what other goodies you have posted on here?

    Thanks,
    Richard Montoya

    Comment by Richard Montoya — September 10, 2006 #

23. Thanks a lot. This tool has been annoying the hell out of me. Now that i have got rid of it i can work in peace.

    Comment by Mervin George — September 17, 2006 #

24. Crashes come from all of the internet explorer patches and conflicts with all the spyware programs, antivirus and firewall issues. My latest came while IE decided I couldn’t download a file I wanted to download and then hung up. This was after I told it to allow downloads from the site. I try to use Firefox (and it is my default browser) but some programs or the operating system, XP HE, open IE by default when looking to update. I am so close to installing Linux on this machine! (Probably only my New England Yankee roots prevent me from flushing all the money I’ve spent on MS software and operating systems down the drain … when will I learn my time is more valuable?!?!)

    Comment by Kevin — September 20, 2006 #

25. Nice tight tip. Very glad I found this site!

    Comment by George L. Bischof — September 28, 2006 #

26. Life saver ! now to see if theres anything else I can use :)

    Comment by Jim Connolly — October 1, 2006 #

27. thanks for this tip! saves me (and others) from manually editing the registry value for this. now that you’ve mentioned ’summarily ignored’, it made me think: do MS really spend time reading our DUMP REPORT files? probably not… :-)

    Comment by vrl29 — October 20, 2006 #

28. thanks a useful windows site for a change thank you

    Comment by m — November 14, 2006 #

29. I´ve deleted it with RegCleaner without problem.

    Comment by Julian — November 16, 2006 #

30. Thanx for the tip, I don’t understand why M$ keeps adding useless junk to its OS.

    Comment by Usman — December 30, 2006 #

31. Thank you! I was about ready to kill Windows XP.

    Comment by Annika — January 5, 2007 #

32. EDDIE! YORE FANTASTIC! I HAD A NEW PC AND IT HAD DUMPREP.EXE. YOU SORTED MY SOLUTION…ALTHOUGH I GOT A REPLACEMENT FREE OF CHARGE FROM CURRYS!!!LOOOOOOOOOOL ITS SRTD. GEREAT MAN:)

    Comment by annonymous — January 27, 2007 #

33. Thanx for simple but great solution to a really annoying problem….

    Comment by RSJ — February 13, 2007 #

34. Thanks a lot!
    Did not know where the option was.

    Comment by manu sharma — February 18, 2007 #

35. Cheers Eddie. Now dumprep has been dumped. Stupid Microsoft!!

    Comment by Matt — March 4, 2007 #

36. Thanks Eddie! Dumprex dumped. You are the man! I just wonder why I did not think to disable this stupid feature before!

    Comment by Peter — March 13, 2007 #

37. Thanks Eddie, you are great! This damn thing had my notebook tied in knots. Soooo glad that it is history!

    Comment by Don — March 14, 2007 #

38. Thanks Eddie. You’re the man :)

    Comment by Randy — April 19, 2007 #

39. That dumprep has bugged me for months.
    Thanks for helping me get rid of it.
    Luv yor site.

    Comment by The Shadow — April 20, 2007 #

40. i have just fixed some horrible, multi virus’s on my hd. i whis i had known this procedure sooner. thank you very much.
    Andrew

    Comment by Andrew — April 22, 2007 #

41. Just so you know, there’s an even more direct way to get up the Task Manager - hit ctrl-shift-escape!
    (this and more handy windows tips on my blog.)
    Cheers!

    Comment by Matt — April 25, 2007 #

42. You saved the day for me too. THANK YOU!

    Comment by Mike — May 20, 2007 #

43. Thanks Eddie!
    Dumped dumrep… This has been an ongoing problem for ages… Computer & Me happy now…. Cheers!

    Comment by Hilary — May 23, 2007 #

44. Thanks. I used to kill dumprep.exe manually to speedup killing of process.
    Now it is not needed.

    Comment by Nomad — August 30, 2007 #

45. Just by chance if anyone wanted the registry setting to make this disabled I am placing it below.

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting]
    “DoReport”=dword:00000000

    Comment by Kevin Herrick — August 31, 2007 #

46. My pc always reboot randomly why?? IS this because of the dumprep and savedump.exe??? can someone help me please……One more thing, why i cannot run error checking on drive-c??? Eventhough i use boot time error checking also cannot why??? It show a message –> cannot access to drive-c for direct checking…=.=

    Comment by Brian — October 3, 2007 #

47. Thank you so much for this! It was very helpful, and I will take a look at your other articles!

    Thank you again!

    Comment by Hayley — October 20, 2007 #

48. This is really gud man.. gr8 work.. thanx..!!

    Comment by COOLPYRO — November 12, 2007 #

49. Thanks a lot:!)

    Comment by ero — December 6, 2007 #

50. U rock!

    Comment by Mike — December 11, 2007 #

51. Hey Very Much Thanks…

    One More Useful Thing is Removing The History also automatically … which also is good…

    If There is anymore of these types please put up more posts..

    Comment by Charith Chowdary — January 13, 2008 #

52. Thanks Eddie,

    Much appreciated!
    My blood pressure will now return to normal!

    D x

    Comment by Dianne — February 2, 2008 #

53. Thanks

    Happy New Year!!!!!!1

    Comment by Mike — February 4, 2008 #

54. Thanks. I prefer the registry method as it can be automated and be run on a lot of computers using a .reg file.

    Comment by fedmich — March 17, 2008 #

55. […] I found the following article on the net on how to disable dumprep.exe. That alone made a world of difference, again, in particular on Lois’ machine. […]

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56. AWESOME! Life saver

    Comment by mike — April 1, 2008 #

57. Most welcome advice Eddie.

    Re comments by yourself and Jeff Williams (July 28, 2006) and vrl29 (Oct 20, 2006), I am not sure that the WER error reports actually are summarily ignored in Seattle. Guys, it’s worse than that.

    In 2005 I made the mistake of sending Microsoft an error report from my work PC. They did nothing helpful (as a more worldly person than me might have expected). But soon, a series of giant-sized foot-long brightly coloured Microsoft postcards started arriving in my workplace post room addressed to me in person. They warned me that every PC needs a licence (what was that suggesting?), that licences were for a single PC only (ditto), they went into the limits of ‘volume licensing’, and warned that licenses were not transferable between PCs. The fourth card falsely accused me of having disks for an old PC ‘OEM’ (?) on it and said it was illegal to load an O/S onto a new PC (I haven’t). I notified our IT department and wrote to Microsoft demanding an explanation of all this gobbledegook, but none came, although the intimidatory postcards stopped coming.

    The nearest I got to anyone accountable was ‘Joey’ without a surname, who was going to get back to me after looking into it but didn’t.

    So be warned! Microsfoot uses so-called “error reports” to police matters that in its perceptions point to licensing irregularities. When it gets an error report, the company happily puts the frighteners on people, even when it’s got its facts hopelessly in a twist. And when it’s invited to explain itself, it retreats into a corporate sulk, not apologising for its mistakes or even bothering to reply to reasonable questions put in response to its actions.

    “Just say no”.

    Comment by John — April 4, 2008 #

58. If you have no problem with dumprep, you can leave it running. As of 2008, it seems to be useful for solving problems.

    IE kept crashing on my system and I submited error repport more than once and one day a message poped up saying “we’ve a solution” and they told me the problem was caused by Flash. I udapted Flash and the problem vanished.

    Same deal with explorer.exe, they told me the problem was related to Elecard MPG Filter and they linked me to a download page on the Elecard website which contained a fix. Once installed, the problem was gone.

    Yeah, it’s true, it slow down the killing process by dumping information but now my system stop crashing in IE and Explorer (Nero also) … my system is more stable thanks to this feature. So think twice before disabling it.

    I also doubth that Microsoft uses these data for licensing regulation … it’s a myth like many others.

    Comment by TristanLeBoss — April 13, 2008 #

59. Terrific thanks a bunch, my pc has been bogged down a
    lot, everytime I start ie the fan starts and the idle process drops to zero.

    Comment by AL — June 6, 2008 #

60. Hi Eddie! You ROCK! I used to wait anything up to 15 minutes for my laptop to recover from (sometimes multiple) cases of “dumpcrap”. Now it’s instant! WOW!

    Comment by Ed — June 8, 2008 #

61. Oh, and you gotta love the astroturfin’ post from Tristan. Shoulda posted on April 1st *G *G

    Comment by Ed — June 8, 2008 #

62. Thank you very much!
    That stupid thing would cause my whole system to freeze! What an incredibly stupid programme, why do Microshaft hate the end user so much?
    Why put in a totally useless bit of software that crashes your WHOLE system because another application crashes? Wheres the logic in that? I think i’ll have to switch to Linux!
    Thanks again for saving my sanity!

    Comment by Zinho — June 19, 2008 #

63. Thanks to you I read and apply the solution in less than 1 to save lot of time!

    Thanks

    Comment by Larry T — August 7, 2008 #

64. Thank you for the tip - I am sure I will use it - just 2 quick questions.
    Why has this just suddenly started to happen (dumprep) when I have been using task manager to close programmes for a long time now? -
    and are there any side effects I should look out for?

    Comment by Michael C — September 11, 2008 #

65. fantastic, thanks a lot!

    Comment by fdsa — September 25, 2008 #

66. Thank you so much.
    This was VERY helpful.
    Nothing like a totally unnecessary Microsoft process to slow down almost freeze XP.
    Dumb. Of course could be worse.
    I could be using vista.

    Thank you for this quick rememdy!

    Comment by AnA ppreciative XP user — October 10, 2008 #

67. Thanks for sharing.

    Great alternative to capcha, too!

    Comment by donna — October 17, 2008 #

68. Thank you for this perfect tip. My dumprep.exe unstoppable sucked whole memory. Now its disabled and system works fine.

    Comment by Taylor — October 26, 2008 #

69. Works like a charm. I was wondering would it be better just to shut it off for programs and leave it on for the OS.

    Comment by Dice — October 28, 2008 #

70. That program was.. in a word useless.. all I found out on it was something to do with “freeing up memory” which was bollocks! It usually happened after closeing IE.. originally it was IE 7.. i got rid of IE 7 and downloaded IE8beta.. same thing.. different bollocks. It decided to run this “dumprep.exe” after closing IE and created havoc, using my memory than every single game put together as if it was going out of fashion. How ever I did come across this handy little hint.. though to my surprise, the computer that was doing it was already saying it was disabled.. yes.. shocked I was, how ever I did redo the process and hopefully I won’t have that problem.. *crosses his fingers*

    As for Microsoft.. well.. I think they are responsible for a lot of things.. more than what they’d care to admit to.. problems and I still believe that they’re behind a lot of the virus’ :P Its a conspiricy!!! :P But hey.. I don’t even wanna touch a mac lol

    Comment by Jus — November 5, 2008 #

71. Thank you!!!

    Chrome crashed semi-often, and this would always pop up while I’m trying to close it. I thought it was a Google Chrome issue, but it’s not. Thanks!

    Comment by Phil — November 12, 2008 #

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