1. Sarah,

I had the same problem. It was triggered by a buffer overload while running an online training session. Locked up the machine, despite several reboots, and on the fourth try it damaged the registries - I had to reinstall. It was at that point that I bought a modular bay drive, and installed FC3 on it. I had no similar problems with the Linux. I have since purchase a Powerbook as well, and it runs like a dream.

I believe the dumprep file is the precursor for a Windows memory dump in case of fatal errors. You can turn in off in your system preferences, but you lose debugging info. Control panel - System - Advanced tab is the avenue.

Cheers,

Michael

Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Michael

2. I am facing a similar problem on my Toshiba book, where the program files stop to respond on account of dumprep.exe occupying 80%of CPU space.

All happened after reporting a non responding error with Windows XP. I also see his problem occuring very often when i exit from MSN Messenger.

Is there a solution?

Alexy Kuriakose

Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Alexy Kuriakose

3. Dumprep.exe is the file that closes a program you just told to shut down. If the program is hanging and not closeing, expect to see a "dumprep.exe" for each time you attempted to close a program. Manually shutting down "dumprep" won't hurt, but remember that the program you want to close is still there.

If you go into "task manager", "Applications", then you should see which program is running but you closed.

I suggest go "start", "run", "msconfig", "startup". Take a look at the programs that load every time Windows starts. The ONLY programs you need to start when you boot are your Anti-Virus and Firewall. Other programs might include Spybot's Tea Time. There is absolutely NO NEED for Yahoo, MS Messenger, AIM, or any of these programs to start with Windows even if they run in the background. Whenever you start these programs from the desktop, they will start up!

Sometimes these programs do not like being shut down and will resist. Or, if it is an old program, then it might be corrupted and need reinstalling.

Hope this helps. May the wind always be at your back.

Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Pat McEntee

4. Software making your computer get hot? That doesn't sound right. Are you sure you don't have a fan going bad?

Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by dirvish

5. What is dumprep.exe doing that is taking so much of my CPU? If it is supposed to end a program, why doesn't it just shut it off?

Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Gerald Wilson

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Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by kimhung

7. I have got a similair problem but instead of rebooting I am getting messages that windows recoverd from a critical error. You know the kind where you can send a log to Microsoft. When you click cancel it will appear again. After shutting down Dumprep.exe in taskbar my problem was solved

Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Huseyin

8. dumprep.exe not just spyware, but also spy your computer system, it can be a computer virus varian.

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Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by AntiVirus Clinic Blog

9. dumprep a very bad spyware i try to go regedit . msconfig. still it always come back im getting tired try to remove it. in regedit it run whit kernelfaultcheck still iff you delete it it always come back .i wonder whats the main key

Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by greencloud

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Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Anti Spyware Review

11. I have a custom built PC with a 3ghz Pentium 4 w/ Hyper Threading, Radeon 9700, 160gb harddrive, and 1gb RAM. I was working on my computer one day on Photoshop, and then it froze and my computer started lagging like hell.
I went into my task manager to see 4 dumprep.exe's running at 10,000k each. Well, I knew that they weren't supposed to be there, and they were some sort of CPU hoggers, but it was worse. For some reason, Photoshop doubled it's CPU usage from 20,00k, to 526,465k. I couldn't shut any of the dumprep.exe's down, because my computer was being too damn slow. So I waited until photoshop calmed down to about 130,000k, and tried to move my mouse again. It would skip, but I eventually shut dumprep down. Everything jumped back to normal.

Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by retro

12. hi, i din have any problems yet, but oddly, this dumprep is in my startup. is that bad?

Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Hi

13. I just had the same problem with 4 dumprep.exe's running while I was trying to close firefox. Firefox froze on me so I went to my processes to shut it down that way and that's when I saw them. I tried to shut one down (because I keep a close eye on my processes, I knew what was supposed to be in there) but it kept returning. I put two and two together and figured out it must be something to do with the program I was trying to close (firefox) and so I ended the firefox.exe instead. As soon as I did that, all my dumprep.exe's vanished.

I just went through a reformat last week, and I have up to day firewall and anti-virus. My pc is clean. So I'm inclined to believe the one above post that confirms my own experience.

Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Another user

14. Reg dumprep.exe

I have just reinstalled WinXP Home and SP2 on my PC (AMD2800+) 1GB RAM, and HDDs:120+160+160+160GB. I have trouble to open an File on one HDD (with 9%free space). When I try to open the PC hangs and I notice several "dumprep.exe".
NOTE: When I innstalled WIN XP (orig disc)/(note: SP2 installed from a Windows disc) onto a newley formatted HDD)there was a mess coming up many times saying: "ALERT Register is corrupt " etc. Pse clik on OK to cont... I ignored this, but shold it be such a kind of mess´s when installing WinXP etc??

Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Sture Ekh Sweden

15. it happened to me too, but besides shuting them down i also looked 4 them om my pc and erased them, u think that was a mistake????

Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by johanie

16. if you go by reinstalling windows after every spyware found on your system, most of your work time sitting by the computer you will be wasting reinstalling os. no thats not a good idea. try to solve spyware problem searching the internet for manual spyware removal guide, or get your anti-spyware software today!
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Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by spyware removal

17. Yeah this is definitely spyware. For manual removal of spyware you should probably use Hijackthis but make sure you scan with appropriate software. Check out this tutorial if you need help:
http://detect-spyware.atspace.com/hijackthis-tutorial.html
To find out about running processes and to stop them get and install Wintasks.

Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by detecting spyware master

18. yep, thats todays problems with computers, u find a running process and your first guess is it must be spyware, adware or other malware thing. for those who are not sure i would recommend using http://www.spywaredb.com spyware removal instructions site.

Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by spyware removal

19. I had this problem too, It is caused when I look at the event viewer in norton antivirus, but
maybe some virus screwed with your virus software so you cannot view anything that has been detected

Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by joshua

20. Has anyone else had dumprep.exe pop up while having issues with Firefox, besides me and "another user"? Everything seemed to be working fine after I restarted my computer and used IE for about an hour, but when I went back to using Firefox there it was again. Anyone besides me think there may be a link there? Any ideas?

Also, if anyone knows where I can get my paws on a dvd decoder (to replace the one my Geek Squad agent now ex-boyfriend apparently deleted when he upgraded my OS). I have the drive, still, but since my computer is a custom-build I dont have all the discs I need and my dvd decoder was victim of my own stupidity (will corner ex at Best Buy in front of his Geek Squad coworkers to get new decoder and/or new dvd/cr-w drive if necessary)

~Curious in Kalama
aiannasphyr at hotmail (you know the drill)

Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Aia