title: How to enable minidumps in Java for Windows
body: <p>I keep getting and seeing this message</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>So I need to know</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>How to enable minidumps in Java (on a Windows machine)</li>
  <li>(optional) How interpret a minidump once I have it</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I tried to find an answer for those 2 questions but what I found are very specific answers for niche questions and that did not satisfied me.</p>