Unknown startup item

[react]

Startup item is dumprep 0 -k

And the command is %systemroot%\system32\dumprep 0 -k

Any idea what this is?

 

[bsobel]

Dumprep prepares minidump reports for MS after a bluescreen.
Bill

 

[react]

ooh.. ya I have been getting BSOD lately from ocing my card

Is it safe to turn it off? Does it slow down window from starting much?

 

[bsobel]

Yes you can turn it off, by I usually suggest people leave it on. It really only kicks in if there was a blue screen. That data is uploaded (after it asks for your permission) to MS who sorts them into 'similar' buckets trying to find the guilty driver. They then forward those crash dumps to the various software makers (they really do, we've got some folks that spend their time analyzing them once we see them from MS). Think of it as a distributed effort to make drivers more resiliant, so it turns out to be good for you and for others (you just may not see the benefits immeidately, but the program has dramatically improved driver stability on XP since it's initial release)

Bill

 

[react]

I guess I'll just leave it on then Thanks for the help!