Windows Error Reporting

As mentioned in Chapter 3, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 include a facility called Windows Error Reporting, which facilitates the automatic submission of process and system crashes to Microsoft (or an internal error reporting server) for analysis. This feature is enabled by default, but it can be modified by changing Savedump's behavior, which takes the additional step of determining whether the system is configured to send a crash dump to Microsoft (or a private server, explained further in the "Online Crash Analysis" section later in the chapter) for analysis on a reboot following a crash. The Error Reporting dialog box, which you access from the Advanced tab of the Control Panel's System applet, is shown in Figure 14-5 ...

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