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TAB

moves the cursor in a window

Esc

closes the active dialog window

5.3 Diagnostics

Diagnostics provides application crash dumps of ESET processes (for example, ekrn). If an application crashes, a

dump will be generated. This can help developers to debug and fix various ESET Smart Security 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 ... to open this directory

within a new Windows explorer window.

5.4 Import and export settings

You can import or export your customized ESET Smart Security .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

Smart Security for use at a later time. The export settings option is also convenient for users who want to use their

preferred configuration 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.