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"Access denied" to minidump files
Hello, Brand new system here. Windows 7 x64. Have been getting an occasional blue screen. Sometimes many days can go by without one, then twice in one day. I would like to proceed with trying to track down the cause of the BSODs, but before I ask for help on that, I'd like to be able to see what is in the minidump files. They are being created in C:\Windows\Minidump , but if I try to open one with Wordpad or Notepad, I get "access denied". ( Using administrator account). On any given minidump file, when I do Properties->Security->Continue, I can see that Administrators have "Full control". "Special Permissions is the only one not checked to be On. Under Properties->Security->Advanced->Owner, current owner is "Unable to display current owner." I have tried experimenting with changing the owner to me. Result is the same. First, - what is causing this? I'm new to Windows 7, and am baffled. Next, what *should* Win7 be doing with these files... what should the permissions be? And , how do I adjust Win7 to do it? Thanks edit: Sorry... the post lost my paragraphs. Is there a trick to posting here? tnx.