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Windows® 7 Resource Kit
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Windows® 7 Resource Kit

by Tony Northrup Mitch Tulloch and Jerry Honeycutt
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
1760 pages
93h 25m
English
Microsoft Press
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Stop Message Overview

Stop errors occur only when a problem cannot be handled by using the higher-level error-handling mechanisms in Windows. Normally, when an error occurs in an application, the application interprets the error message and provides detailed information to the system administrator. However, Stop errors are handled by the kernel, and Windows is only able to display basic information about the error, write the contents of memory to the disk (if memory dumps are enabled), and halt the system. This basic information is described in more detail in the section titled Stop Messages later in this chapter.

As a result of the minimal information provided in a Stop message and the fact that the operating system stops all processing, Stop ...

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