Redirecting application crash dumps to another folder

Running Windows 10-64 22H2. I'm running an application that has a new feature I like; unfortunately, this feature makes the application crash about 50% of the time. I feel like the crash dumps are causing undue wear & tear to my SSD. I'd like to redirect the dumps to a hard disk. My thought is that I could use mklink to create a hard link in c:\users\userid\AppData\Local\CrashDumps to reference another directory. Does this make sense? I haven't had any use for symbolic links to date and I don't want to do anything (too) stupid.

Rob

Continual crashes cause more wear and tear than moving files.
Is there a reason why the crashes are allowed to continue unresolved ?

Run this command as Admin, replacing the path with a new folder.

Code:

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps" /v DumpFolder /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "D:\path\to\crash_folder" /f

Be aware, some apps will set their own DumpFolder paths in the Registry.

You may have to open Regedit, and search HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps for app-specific entries.

joeandmarg0 said:

Continual crashes cause more wear and tear than moving files.
Is there a reason why the crashes are allowed to continue unresolved ?

Unfortunately software from this publisher is frequently released before it's stable. The problems are usually functionality; this is the first time I've had to deal with crashes. People are complaining about it on the vendor's support site. It's good software when it works; not so good when it crashes.

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garlin said:

Run this command as Admin, replacing the path with a new folder.

Code:

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps" /v DumpFolder /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "D:\path\to\crash_folder" /f

Be aware, some apps will set their own DumpFolder paths in the Registry.

You may have to open Regedit, and search HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps for app-specific entries.

Thank you very much. I will try this in the morning and report back. Appreciated!

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garlin said:

Run this command as Admin, replacing the path with a new folder.

Code:

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps" /v DumpFolder /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "D:\path\to\crash_folder" /f

Be aware, some apps will set their own DumpFolder paths in the Registry.

You may have to open Regedit, and search HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps for app-specific entries.

This worked perfectly. Thanks so much for your help!

Rob