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Register RSS Windows Error Reporting (WER) - View .wer filesHome Blog Windows Error Reporting (WER) - View .wer files4sysops - The online community for SysAdmins and DevOps Michael Pietroforte Fri, Jun 25 2010Mon, Jun 28 2010 troubleshooting 1 Windows Error Reporting (WER) is a Windows function that windows error reporting files location captures the data of software crashes and can report this information to software
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vendors via Microsoft's Winqual service. In this Windows Error Reporting series, I will explain how WER works, how you can windows wer reportqueue delete access the information in WER files, and how you can disable Windows Error Reporting.AboutLatest PostsMichael PietroforteMichael Pietroforte is the founder and editor of 4sysops. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
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with more than 30 years of experience in IT management and system administration. Latest posts by Michael Pietroforte (see all) Set Windows 10 Ethernet connection to metered with PowerShell - Tue, Sep 27 2016 Disable updates in Windows 10 1607 (Anniversary Update) using Group Policy - Wed, Sep 21 2016 Fundamentals of Azure, Second Edition - Get your head in the cloud - Tue, wer reportqueue folder Sep 13 2016 Windows Error Reporting has been available since Windows XP, although changes have been introduced in Vista and Windows 7. Whenever a Windows application crashes, a WER file is created, which contains valuable information that can help you analyze why the crash happened.While software vendors have to sign up to Microsoft's Winqual service to access the crash data from their customers, admins can access it by opening the .wer files, which are simple text files that Windows stores at different locations. In some cases, the problem description will help you to understand why an application crashed.However, it is often only the developer who will really understands the contents of the .wer file. But, you can't go wrong having a look at these files before you decide whether you want to enable or disable Windows Error Reporting (if you are worried that confidential data will be sent to third parties). Furthermore, you can also send the files to the support service of your software or hardware vendor in the hope that they can figure out what went wrong.In Windows 7, Windows Error Reporting files can be stored in a subfolder some
MiskellyMay 24, 20073 0 0 0 If you’re a software developer, chances are that you have written an application, and this application has crashed. When this happened, it probably put up a dialog that looks something like this: How do you figure out what went wrong? Strategy #1: Extract
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minidump of the crash. So one way to find out what went wrong is just to look at the minidump. This wer folder windows 7 works really well if your application is written in native code and there is no debugger on the machine where the crash occurs. You can use it for managed code too, but you will https://4sysops.com/archives/windows-error-reporting-wer-view-wer-files/ need to use sos.dll to analyze the dump (see MSDN). Open a command prompt (Start->Run, cmd.exe), and switch to your temp directory: C:\Documents and Settings\greggm>cd /d %tmp% Look for the dump file that Windows Error Reporting produced. It will have a ‘.dmp' or ‘.mdmp' extension and the date should be shortly after the crash happened: C:\DOCUME~1\greggm\LOCALS~1\Temp>dir *.*dmpVolume in drive C has no label.Volume Serial Number is 70E3-6676 Directory of https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/greggm/2007/05/24/debugging-windows-error-reporting/ C:\DOCUME~1\greggm\LOCALS~1\Temp 05/24/2007 08:54 AM 109,570 4A88835.dmp 1 File(s) 109,570 bytes 0 Dir(s) 25,379,823,616 bytes free Mark the file as read-only. This will prevent Windows Error Reporting from deleting the file after you dismiss the dialog: C:\DOCUME~1\greggm\LOCALS~1\Temp>attrib +r 4A88835.dmp Now dismiss windows error reporting and copy the dump file wherever you want. You can analyze the dump in Visual Studio by opening the dump file as a project (File->Open Project), and start debugging (F5). Strategy #2: Access the dump from Online Crash Analysis Microsoft has a program to allow ISVs to access the crashes in their applications that have been submitted by users. If the person experiencing the crash is a customer, this is a great way to find out what happened. Seethewinqual sitefor more information. Strategy #3: Debug the crash through Just-In-Time DebuggingProbably everyone already knows about this, so I won’t spend much time discussing it. However, as long as the application is crashing on a computer that has a debugger installed, this is the easiest option. The only thing tricky that I will mention is that in Windows Vista, depending on your computers Windows Error Reporting settings, you might actually need to click the ‘Send information' button before Windows Vista wil
AppCrashView v1.25 - View application crashes (.wer files) Copyright (c) 2009 - 2015 Nir Sofer Related Utilities http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/app_crash_view.html BlueScreenView - View the Blue screen of death (STOP error) information stored in dump files. WhatIsHang - Get information about Windows software that stopped responding (hang) NK2Edit - Edit, merge and fix the AutoComplete files (.NK2) of Microsoft Outlook. Description AppCrashView is a small utility for Windows Vista and Windows 7 that displays error report the details of all application crashes occurred in your system. The crashes information is extracted from the .wer files created by the Windows Error Reporting (WER) component of the operating system every time that a crash is occurred. AppCrashView also allows you to easily save the crashes list to text/csv/html/xml file. System Requirements windows error reporting For now, this utility only works on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows 8, and Windows 10. simply because the earlier versions of Windows don't save the crash information into .wer files. It's possible that in future versions, I'll also add support for Windows XP/2000/2003 by using Dr. Watson (Drwtsn32.exe) or other debug component that capture the crash information. Versions History Version 1.25 Added option to delete the selected reports. Version 1.21 Fixed to display date/time values according to daylight saving time settings. Version 1.20 Added 'Open Report File Folder' option. Added 'Open Process Folder' option. Version 1.15 Added /ReportsFolder command-line option, which allows you to specify the exact reports folder you want to load, for example: AppCrashView.exe /ReportsFolder "c:\temp\wer" Version 1.12 Fixed bug: The crash items located under 'All Users' profile displayed twice. Added 'Auto Size Columns+Headers' option. Version 1.11 Added 'Mark Odd/Even Rows' option, under the View menu. When it's turned on, th