Online Crash Analysis
When the WerFault utility executes during logon, as a result of having configured itself to start, it checks the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\KernelFaults\Queue key to look for queued reports that may have been added in the previous dump conversion phase. It also checks whether there are previously unsent crash reports from previous sessions. If there are, it launches WerFault.exe with the –k –q flags (the q flag specifies the usage of queued reporting mode) to generate an XML-formatted file containing a basic description of the system, including the operating system version, a list of drivers installed on the machine, and the list of Plug and Play drivers loaded on the system at the time of the ...
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