How to create DMP files in Windows Before we get into opening .dmp files, you have to make sure your computer will actually generate them whenever you run into a BSOD.

Crash Dump files store information about application crash. Learn how to manually create Crash Dump file in Windows 11/10 via Task Manager or CMD.

Reading those files is 90% skill, 10% software. Which is why there is no built-in method for opening them. End users would not know what to do with that information.