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re: WER is designed for third-parties...not Microsoft...
Monday, October 3, 2005 at 10:53 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Debra schnon
(1 messages posted)
I'm receiving an error(yellow upside triangle with an explanation mark) always telling
me it's an error. This always happens when I either log on to the computer, or even
log off. It's telling me I have unsent e-mails, but continously asking me for details.
Please get rid of this. Thank you.
On Wednesday, July 14, 2004 at 10:52 am, Ghostie wrote:
>WER (Windows Error Reporting) is actually a very valuable tool for MSDN Universal
>subscribers - primarily third-party ISVs:
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>https://winqual.microsoft.com/info/default.aspx#WER
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>Basically, when any application crashes, Microsoft can be sent a crash report.
Initially
>the WER servers actually throw away crash reports until the software vendor goes
>in and says they want to receive them. What the vendor receives is a CAB file (compressed
>- kind of like ZIP, but different and is Windows-specific) containing a number of
>minidump files. A minidump file contains just enough information for the vendor
>to see what line of code the program was executing on at the time of the crash/freeze/etc.
> They get the stack, the DLLs that were loaded in, and maybe a little extra information.
> The files are digitally signed to prevent tampering. So, sending error reports
>never hurts and actually helps in a lot of cases.
>
>From what I understand the Office and most other teams ignore the error reports,
>but the Visual Studio .NET (2005 - Whidbey) team pays attention to them.
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