Why does my visual studio closes automatically without any errors

You can delete the .vs folder without problem because it contains temporary files, user cache data and some others things like with a net browser. It is the same with .suo and .user files. You can try to uninstall and reinstall Visual Studio as well as use the Cleanup Tool : https://learn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/install/remove-visual-studio learn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/install/remove-visual-studio. You also … Read more

Java VM: reproducible SIGSEGV on both 1.6.0_17 and 1.6.0_18, how to report?

I got similar problem upgrading to JDK 1.6_18 and it seems solved using the following options: -server -Xms256m -Xmx748m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -Xloggc:/tmp/gc.log -XX:+PrintHeapAtGC -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=”/tmp” -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:-UseGCOverheadLimit # Following options just to remote monitoring with jconsole, useful to see JVM behaviour at runtime -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=12345 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=MyHost I still didn’t double check … Read more

How to debug w3wp clr.dll error

It looks like you have a StackOverflow Exception, which is caused by unbounded recursion (a function repeatedly calling itself, etc). This can’t be caught by regular try/catch block. You can track the problem down using DebugDiag and WinDbg. DebugDiag can be configured to generate a crash dump when the StackOverflowException occurs. Download at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=58210. Open … Read more

Windows does not produce full crash dumps even though registry is set correctly

Permissions of the folder to write to Looking at the permissions of the folder C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER it has Read & execute List folder contents Read Creating a subfolder LocalDumps will inherit the permissions. So you should either modify the permissions of that folder or use a different folder with write permissions. Permissions of the Registry key … Read more

How do I disable the ‘Debug / Close Application’ dialog on Windows Vista?

To force Windows Error Reporting (WER) to take a crash dump and close the app, instead of prompting you to debug the program, you can set these registry entries: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting] “ForceQueue”=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\Consent] “DefaultConsent”=dword:00000001 After this is set, when your apps crash, you should see *.hdmp and … Read more