Recently my Windows XP SP3 started crashing several times a day. A warning triangle will apear on the system tray, and a second later the system is booting into BIOS. No BSOD. What makes it particularily hard to determine the cause, is that WDP discards any changes when an improper shut-down is detected. No matter if it's set to retain temporarily. Is there any way to either prevent changes from being dropped, on crash, while WDP is set to retain temporarily? Or, to redirect Windows Event Logs and dumpfiles to another partition or drive?

Seems, it is quite easy. To move Event Logs and Dump Files, with regedit, for Logs, change the Value "File" at: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Security] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\System] and for Dumps, change the Values "DumpFile" and "MinidumpDir" at: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl] and restart. AS ALWAYS, EDITING THE REGISTRY CAN CAUSE DISASTER.