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Windows Error Reporting (WER) ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Aaron RykhusDecember 11, 20080 Share 0 0 Also check outhttp://blogs.msdn.com/wer/pages/faq.aspx#weronpc Application Log Whenever an application crashes (faulting application) you should get the message
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Error event. If the report is sent to Microsoft the Application Log will also have an Information event that contains a Bucket
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ID. On Windows Vista, you can open Event Viewer by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, clicking Administrative Tools, and then double-clicking Event Viewer.? If you are prompted for an
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administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation. Expand Windows Logs and select Application to select the Application log: Look on the right, a crash in an Office application should be an Error under the Level column, Application Error under the Source column, and 1000 under the Event ID column. Crash Example: crash from Outlook Fault Bucket (bucket ID) If the report was sent to us (Microsoft) there should be an Information disable error reporting windows 10 event with Windows Error Reporting under the Source column and event ID 1001, with all the data gathered in the details. On support calls, the piece of data that's most important to me is the Fault bucket that's reported. I'll usually refer to it as the bucket ID. Problem Reports and Solutions (new in Vista) A new feature in Windows Vista is Problem Reports and Solutions in the Control Panel under the System and Maintenance category (if you don't have Classic View turned on). This will contain all the crash and hang events that occurred on a computer along with settings to configure reporting to Microsoft. To open Problem Reports and Solution in Windows Vista (not in previous versions of Windows: 1. Open Problem Reports and Solutions by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, and then clicking Problem Reports and Solutions. 2. In the left pane, click View problem history. 3. To view problems by product, date, problem type, or solution status, click the column name. Bucket ID is the same as the Fault bucket in the application log event. I prefer using Problem Reports and Solutions versus Application Log to get crash details. More info: Where it's stored: http://blogs.msdn.com/wer/pages/faq.aspx#weronpc See problem reports for this computer http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Wind
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Monday, February 24, 2014 Posted by Corey Harrell The Application Experience and Compatibility feature ensures compatibility of existing software between different versions of the Windows operating system. The implementation of this feature http://journeyintoir.blogspot.com/2014/02/exploring-windows-error-reporting.html results in some interesting program execution artifacts that are relevant to Digital Forensic and Incident Response (DFIR). I already highlighted a few of these in my posts Revealing the RecentFileCache.bcf File and Revealing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Error_Reporting Program Compatibility Assistant HKCU AppCompatFlags Registry Keys. There are more artifacts associated with this feature and the Windows Error Reporting (WER) are one of them. Over the past few months WER has been error reporting discussed frequently due to the potential data it exposes when data is sent to Microsoft. However, WER can be a useful program execution artifact for incident response since malicious code - such as malware and exploited applications - cancrash on systems. This short post provides discusses WER and illustrates how it is helpful to track malware on a system. What is Windows Error Reporting Windows Error windows error reporting Reporting is basically a feature to help solve problems associated with programs crashing on the Windows operating system. The Windows Internals, Part 1: Covering Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 goes into more detail by stating: "WER is a sophisticated mechanism that automates the submission of both user-mode process crashes as well as kernel-mode system crashes." The service analyzes the crashed application's state and builds context information surrounding the crashed program. The book continues by saying: On default configured systems, an error report (a minidump and XML file with various details, such as the DLL version numbers loaded in the process) is sent to Microsoft's online crash analysis server. Eventually, as the service is notified of a solution for a problem, it will display a tooltip to the user informing her of steps that should be taken to solve the problem. How Does Windows Error Reporting Work? There are two registry keys responsible for WER's configuration. These keys are listed below; the first key affects system-wide behavior while the second is user specific. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error ReportingHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting The best resource I found explaining how WER works is a paper written by 0xdabbad00. Their paper
reporting technology introduced by Microsoft with WindowsXP[1] and included in later Windows versions and Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0. Not to be confused with the Dr. Watson debugging tool which left the memory dump on the user's local machine, Windows Error Reporting collects and offers to send post-error debug information (a memory dump) using the Internet to the Microsoft or stops responding on a user's desktop. No data is sent without the user's consent.[2] When a dump (or other error signature information) reaches the Microsoft server, it is analyzed and a solution is sent back to the user when one is available. Solutions are served using Windows Error Reporting Responses. Windows Error Reporting runs as a Windows service and can optionally be entirely disabled. If Windows Error Reporting itself crashes, then an error report that the original crashed process produced cannot be sent at all. Kinshuman is the original designer of Windows Error Reporting in Vista which is the same design and implementation that is present in current Windows versions. [3] Contents 1 History 1.1 Windows XP 1.2 Windows Vista 1.3 Windows 7 1.4 Windows 8 2 System design 2.1 Buckets 3 Third-party software 4 Impact on future software 5 Privacy concerns and use by the NSA 6 Alternatives 7 See also 8 References History[edit] Windows XP[edit] Microsoft first introduced Windows Error Reporting with WindowsXP.[1] Windows Vista[edit] Windows Error Reporting was improved significantly in WindowsVista. Most importantly a new set of public APIs have been created for reporting failures other than application crashes and hangs.[4] Developers can create custom reports and customize the reporting user interface. The new APIs are documented in MSDN. The architecture of Windows Error Reporting has been revamped with a focus on reliability and user experience. WER can now report errors even when the process is in a very bad state for example if the process has encountered stack exhaustions, PEB/TEB corruptions, heap corruptions, etc. In earlier OSs prior to WindowsVista, the process usually terminated silently without generating an error report in these conditions. A new Control Panel applet, "Problem Reports and Solutions" was also introduced, keeping a record of system and application errors and issues, as well as presenting probable solutions to problems. Windows 7[edit] The Problem Reports and Solutions Control Panel applet was replaced by the Maintenance section of the Windows Action Center on Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. Windows 8[edit] A new applicatio