title: Windows Error Reporting insists on NOT creating full dumps on software crashes
body: <p>I'm trying to debug my application on a production machine. It crashes about once every 2 days and I don't know why.</p>
  
  <p>I've been trying for days now to make that production machine produce full crash dumps whenever a program crashes. Sometimes it does, but sometimes, instead of producing full crash dumps, it creates short text files that simply list all modules loaded and says that the program crashed. These short files are saved in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows Error Reporting\ReportArchive.</p>
  
  <p>For the life of me, I cannot understand why this is happening! I can't ask these users to run adplus or windbg or something like that. I just need to create a crash dump every time the program crashes, period.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone please help? I'm attaching the full registry settings for WER. These exist both on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node and on the 64 bit node. As you can see, the LocalDumps key points to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\LocalDumps to save crash dumps, and yes, everyone has full permission for this folder.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
  
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting]
  "ErrorPort"="\\WindowsErrorReportingServicePort"
  "MaxQueueSizePercentage"=dword:00000001
  "PurgeThreshholdValueInKB"=dword:0000000a
  "Disabled"=dword:00000000
  "MaxQueueCount"=dword:00000032
  "DisableQueue"=dword:00000000
  "LoggingDisabled"=dword:00000000
  "DontSendAdditionalData"=dword:00000000
  "AutoApproveOSDumps"=dword:00000001
  "MaxQueueSize"=dword:00000400
  "ForceQueue"=dword:00000001
  "DontShowUI"=dword:00000001
  "ConfigureArchive"=dword:00000002
  "MaxArchiveCount"=dword:000001f4
  "DisableArchive"=dword:00000000
  "LastQueuePesterTime"=hex(b):57,18,42,be,ba,81,d0,01
  "LastLiveReportFlushTime"=hex(b):87,cf,56,3d,bc,81,d0,01
  "LastQueueNoPesterTime"=hex(b):4d,39,bb,3a,51,97,d0,01
  "LastRateLimitedDumpGenerationTime"=hex(b):87,84,74,9b,90,85,d0,01
  
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\BrokerUp]
  "WWAJSE"=dword:00000001
  
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\Consent]
  "SQLException64"=dword:00000004
  "SQLException"=dword:00000004
  "DefaultConsent"=dword:00000004
  "DefaultOverrideBehavior"=dword:00000001
  
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\Debug]
  "ExceptionRecord"=hex:de,fa,ed,0e,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,98,45,4d,75,07,00,00,\
    00,81,f8,46,00,dc,37,49,00,88,37,49,00,00,00,00,00,c0,fe,18,00,fc,fe,18,00,\
    1c,f9,18,00,02,00,00,00,04,f9,18,00,00,00,00,00,0c,f9,18,00,96,27,40,00,da,\
    3b,40,00,f0,0c,45,00,e2,31,40,00
  
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\HeapControlledList]
  
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\HeapControlledList\dwm.exe]
  "EnableHeapThrottle"=dword:00000001
  
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps]
  "DumpFolder"="C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Windows\\WER\\LocalDumps"
  "DumpCount"=dword:0000000a
  "DumpType"=dword:00000002
  "CustomDumpFlags"=dword:00000000
  
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\RuntimeExceptionHelperModules]
  "C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v4.0.30319\\mscordacwks.dll"=dword:00000000
  
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\WMR]
  "Disable"=dword:00000001
  </code></pre>