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Why Windows Error Reporting (WER) does not work

If you are reading this, you are probably coming from the CubicleSoft website to learn more about Windows Error Reporting. This blog entry will thus be a little more professional as a result. Windows Error Reporting, or WER for short, is a set of technologies Microsoft put together for Windows XP and expanded upon for Windows Vista: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Error_Reporting To summarize the Wikipedia article, WER gathers error reports in a central location (Microsoft servers) and developers of software then can log into the system and retrieve those error reports and thus fix bugs. End-users of Windows see something like this when the application crashes: The user clicks the "Send Error Report" and the bugs get fixed. The official website of Windows Error Reporting (WER): https://winqual.microsoft.com/ All that sounds good in writing until developers start reading the "fine print" on what is required. By default, applications are not WER enabled. That mea...