How to open Windows DUMP .DMP files.
It’s been true since the beginning, the Windows Event Viewer is essentially useless to the average everyday Tech Support employee. Even Ids, Sources, and codes of Hexadecimal errors tell most non-Microsoft programming users, absolutely nothing, although EventID.net, can be very helpful.
This is where a underground hidden Microsoft application comes to the rescue for opening the mysterious DMP(Dump) files created during the still present BSOD(Blue Screen of Death) and located in “c:\windows\minidump”. The application is called “Debugging Tools for Windows”.
Once installed, go to FILE>OPEN CRASH DUMP
This produces the following screen and following cause of the crash: