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Recently I came to find about a feature (option) by right clicking on process in Task Manager on Windows 10:

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I want to know what does the feature stand for and what can I do with it?

Pandya
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It's a debugging tool for programmers.

It takes a snapshot of all the stuff that that program has stored in RAM and writes it to a file on disk. Programmers can then pore through that information to try to understand what went wrong.

Memory dumps (core dumps) are mostly useless unless you're a programmer with access to the source code of the program whose memory you dumped to disk.

Spiff
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