What is USER.DMP?

A. USER.DMP is created by Dr. Watson when a programcrashes, and is there to help you fix the problem. It can be examined usingsupportdebugi386dumpexam.exe or using windbg -z user.dmp. You can deletethis file without any worries. The syntax for dumpexam.exe is

dumpexam -y , e.g.
dumpexan -y d:winntsymbols d:winntmemory.dmp

The output from dumpexam will be placed at %SystemRoot%MEMORY.TXT.

To stop this file being created execute DRWTSN32.EXE and unselect the option"Create Crash Dump File".