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5.3 Diagnostics
Diagnostics provides application crash dumps of ESET's processes (e.g. ekrn). If an application crashes, a dump will be
generated. This can help developers to debug and fix various ESET NOD32 Antivirus problems. Two dump types are
available:
Complete memory dump – Records all the contents of system memory when the application stops unexpectedly. A
complete memory dump may contain data from processes that were running when the memory dump was
collected.
Minidump – Records the smallest set of useful information that may help identify why the application crashed
unexpectedly. This kind of dump file can be useful when space is limited. However, because of the limited information
included, errors that were not directly caused by the thread that was running at the time of the problem may not be
discovered by an analysis of this file.
Select Do not generate memory dump (default) to disable this feature.
Target directory – Directory where the dump during the crash will be generated. Click Open folder... to open this
directory within a new Windows explorer window.
5.4 Import and export settings
You can import or export your customized ESET NOD32 Antivirus .xml configuration file from the Setup menu.
Importing and exporting of configuration files is useful if you need to backup your current configuration of ESET
NOD32 Antivirus for use at a later time. The export settings option is also convenient for users who want to use their
preferred configuration of ESET NOD32 Antivirus on multiple systems, they can easily import an .xml file to transfer
these settings.
Importing a configuration is very easy. In the main program window click Setup > Import and export settings..., and
then select Import settings. Enter the file name of the configuration file or click the ... button to browse for the
configuration file you want to import.
The steps to export a configuration are very similar. In the main program window, click Setup > Import and export
settings.... Select Export settings and enter the file name of the configuration file (i.e. export.xml). Use the browser to
select a location on your computer to save the configuration file.
Note: You may encounter an error while exporting settings if you do not have enough rights to write the exported file
to specified directory.
5.5 Idle state detection
Idle state detection settings can be configured in Advanced setup under Tools > Idle state detection. These settings
specify a trigger for Idle-state scanning, when:
the screen saver is running,
the computer is locked,
a user logs off.
Use above check boxes to enable or disable the idle state detection triggers.