Mysterious Startup Registry Entry

[ktkendall]

Hello:

Last night my wife finished whatever she was doing and told me I could have the PC to do my stuff, I walked in and windows was just in the midst of restarting. I asked her why she did a reboot, but she did not. I then checked msconfig startup tab, and found this mysterious entry in the startup:

KernelFaultCheck reg_sz %systemroot%\system32\dumprep 0 -k

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

I don't see anything out of the ordinary in the event viewer, I ran deep scans for spyware and virus and am clean, she says she was not doing anything out of the ordinary, but I assume this caused the restart and was just wondering what may have caused this entry to appear..

[macko72]

Startup Name Process Name Details
N kernelfaultcheck dumprep 0 -k Used in connection with memory dumps - you can disable these by - right clicking on My Computer, selecting Properties and then the Advanced tab. Click on the Settings button in 'Startup and Recovery'. In the bottom pane - under 'Write debugging information' - click on the down arrow and then select 'None' - OK your way out

Must be that somethig went wrong with memory dump during your wife's work and when she stopped working and closed application that she used windows restarted him self can be something can be nothing only windows knows for now!!!

[glc]

Turn off restart on error in control panel - system - advanced - startup and recovery. If it happens again it will bluescreen instead of reboot and you can read the screen to get a clue why it happened.

[ktkendall]

Thanks, for the replies, I'll just have to keep an eye on things, maybe we took a power dip for a split second here. Anyways the part that gets me though is that it is always when the wife is on here, or the rare occasion I let the kids use mypc it seems to never fail that something happens or some kind of junk gets installed and of course nobody knows nothing, but for me this PC is flawless. Oh Well this is what makes life interesting I suppose.