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Title: Dumprep?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 19, 2003, 11:59:59 am

Are you lot responsible for a little aplication calleing itself Dumprep.exe?

I was browsing the ship list in the tech database when I clicked a fighter I didn't have a model for. FS2 crashed out, as you'd expect, but then when I tried to relaunch the game it gave me a virtual memory error. Upon checking my task manager I was down to four free MB of physical RAM, and a process called Dumprep.exe was taking up 90Mb of memory. As I watched this number began to grow by about 5mb every second, so before I knew it this thing had eaten half my memory... took about twenty goes to make it shut down.

Any thoughts? Or is it just the machines taking over again?

Title: Dumprep?
Post by: Kazan on December 19, 2003, 12:20:23 pm

never heard of this app

Title: Dumprep?
Post by: phreak on December 19, 2003, 12:23:05 pm

isn't google amazing?

http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/dumprep/

Title: Dumprep?
Post by: Kazan on December 19, 2003, 12:24:23 pm

that's what i figured

Title: Dumprep?
Post by: Drew on December 19, 2003, 01:31:30 pm

dumprep is MS's error reporting program. Most of the time when a program crashes XP fires up dumprep and asks u to report whatever happend. Its annoying as hell, it usually freezes my system when it runs... till it force close it with task-manager
:mad:

Title: Dumprep?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 19, 2003, 02:33:40 pm

Right-o, thanks all. More hatemail for Bill is in order it seems. Shame you can't customize those error messages Windows sends off, like tagging each one "U SUK U R A RETADR" or something like that :)

Title: Dumprep?
Post by: Arc on December 19, 2003, 02:42:49 pm

Drew, you can turn off the error reporting (if you don't know already, of course :) )

Go to Start>Settings>Control Panel>System. Open the "Advanced" tab. Click the "Error Reporting" at the bottom of the tab. It'll open a new window where you can select to disable error reporting (but optionally still have it tell you about critical errors...whatever that means). Alternatively you can opt to avoid it acting on program crashes, but still send the windows ones.

I don't really know if this means you'll miss anything important, but mine's been set that way since shortly after I installed XP and I haven't noticed any problems. One thing: I use XP pro, but I think it's the same if you've got Home.

Hope it helps  :)

Title: Dumprep?
Post by: Flipside on December 19, 2003, 03:01:45 pm

I've got Home, and yes, it is the same, since I turned mine off ages ago ;)

Title: Dumprep?
Post by: Annorax on December 19, 2003, 10:35:50 pm

You could do the smart thing and not run XPiss... 98SE does everything needed, and doesn't have any of the bloat or other BS that XPiss has...

Maybe someone could even come up with a mod weapon that installs XP on Shivan ships.... They crash and have to restart every five minutes, so all subsystems are offline for 45 seconds...

Title: Dumprep?
Post by: IceFire on December 19, 2003, 11:11:07 pm

Not to start an OS war but I have Win XP Home and I'm not ever going back to 98SE as much as that was better over the competiton at the time.

Title: Dumprep?
Post by: Solatar on December 19, 2003, 11:34:06 pm

I've never had a single problem with XP.:wtf:

Title: Dumprep?
Post by: Singh on December 20, 2003, 12:26:37 am

<---going to stick with his win2k :)

Title: Dumprep?
Post by: karajorma on December 20, 2003, 05:18:46 pm

Never had an major problems with XP. And it's not like I'm a fan of MS. I've absolutely hated every single one they've ever released.

Title: Dumprep?
Post by: Taristin on December 21, 2003, 12:37:31 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Singh
<---going to stick with his win2k :)

Ditto, even until it is old and obsolete. By that time, I may attempt a switch to linux.