re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' Thursday, December 4, 2003 at 10:10 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by C K (6909 messages posted) It's only used by programmers and people who know how to debug programs, or need to send the debugging info to MS in this case. Yes, you can delete it and you can also turn off the memory dump or set it to dump only a short abbreviated amount of data. Control Panel> system> advanced> startup and recovery> settings> write debugging information box> (drop down box to select the type of memory dump or non at all). C K On Thursday, December 4, 2003 at 8:39 pm, Chad wrote: >Is it safe to delete memory.dmp from the windows directory? It takes up about >500MB so it would be nice to get rid of it! > >Thanks Written in response to: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (Chad: Thursday, December 4, 2003 at 8:39 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (michala smith: Monday, May 9, 2005 at 9:30 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'What to Throw Away' (Chad: Thu, Dec 4, 2003, 8:39 pm) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (C K: Thu, Dec 4, 2003, 10:10 pm) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (michala smith: Mon, May 9, 2005, 9:30 pm) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (Steve_O: Sat, May 28, 2005, 9:55 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum