The complete memory dump will be much larger because it has the data of all processes. Please note that this is not a complete memory dump but just a dump for the notepad instance/process/task (eg when notepad freezes). In one of my answer (for my own question): How do I recover the content from Notepad when the task froze? I describe how to recover notepad data from a memory dump. So if you can not use notepad++ (which is the better option in terms of prevention of data loss and data recovery, as most people pointed out correctly) make sure to set windows to create the memory dump in the event of a crash. If the dump is created, the content of the notepad instance will be saved in the memory dump file and can be recovered.īut in most cases the default settings are still active so no complete memory dump will been created and the data unfortunately will lost after the restart. It is possible to create a full memory dump when windows crashes and a restart is forced (e.g.

It depends on the type 'shut down' itself. It is not 100% true that notpad data can not be recovered in any case.

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