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Finding useful crash-information in Windows 8 Consumer Preview

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Mar 15, 2026865 views
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I'm currently diving into C# and wanted to play around with the new Metro-styled-applications introduced with Windows 8, so I updated my Windows 7 to Windows 8 Consumer Preview. The problem I'm facing right now is, that the system freezes after 3-5 minutes. It does not take any input from the keybo…

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Fix for: Finding useful crash-information in Windows 8 Consumer Preview

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You need to set up manual generation of a kernel / complete memory dump, open "On This Page" and click on "How to generate a manual memory dump file by using the keyboard". The trick might allow you to cause a dump to be generated while the system i…

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