title: Why aren't mini-dumps being created by Windows?
body: <p>I have an x64-platform application running on Windows 8.1, x64...it crashes from time to time (its a multibyte, COM+ object hosted in a Windows service). <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb787181%28v=vs.85%29.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">I wanted to get the OS to write mini-dump files whenever an exception happens</a>, so I set the following keys up in my registry:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/35LH6.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Yet when a crash does occur, I see nothing in %LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps. Why is this happening? Is it because the service is running under the Local System account?</p>