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Start here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Server Fault Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Server Fault is a question and answer site for system and network administrators. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Archived and queued Windows Error Reporting up vote 8 down vote favorite 2 Just ran Disk Cleanup on a computer here (Windows Vista), and saw 3 items in the list I haven't seen before: Per user archived Windows Error Repo... | 402 MB System archived WIndows Error Repor... | 18,0 KB System queued Windows Error Reporti... | 533 MB What are those? I assume it is safe to delete, but should I do something with it first? Should I for example be kind to Mircosoft and send all that queued stuff? How would I do that? Note: Wish I knew what was after those dots. Assume it is "Reporting", but no idea if there is more after it. Hate dialogs that can not be resized... (or at least lets me know what is behind truncated text in a tooltip) windows windows-vista cleanup share|improve this question asked Jun 8 '09 at 9:08 Svish 1,66092539 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 7 down vote accepted Yes it is safe to delete these files, they are files generated by Windows Error Reporting when an application error occurs. The per-user data is saved to: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\wer the system data is saved to: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ THose two folders are split into ReportArchive which is historical reports, and ReportQueue which are reports that have not been sent yet. This applies to both Windows Vista and Windows 7. share|improve this answer answered Jun 8 '09 at 9:28 Richard Slater 2,81322242 Are they used for anything? Can I use them for anything? Can I somehow tell Windows to send the reports that have not been sent yet? –Svish Jun 8 '09 at 11:27 2 windows retains information about how, what, why and when an application or driver has crashed. Depending on the configuration, found in (Vista: Control Panel > System and Maintenance > Problem Reports and Solutions > Change settings > Advanced se