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How to open DMP files

Your computer is home to countless files, and not all of them look or even function the same. Youve got your standard .doc ...
When Windows crashes, it collects information about the crash during the time that the Crash Screen is displayed. At this point, the OS collects information from running applications, drivers, ...
Aren't dump files supposed to be mostly gibberish (to the untrained eye, anyway)? You could try a hex editor/viewer maybe.
A user's Dell laptop bluescreen'd. Here is the dump file. What is this telling me? I've read dump files where it lists a particular driver, such as an audio driver. But this file mentions ntoskrnl.exe ...