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[[File:Windows Error Reporting problem details.png|thumb|right|Windows Error Reporting displaying problem details from an issue with [[Windows Explorer]]]]

'''Windows Error Reporting''' ('''WER''') (codenamed Watson) is a [[crash reporter|crash reporting]] technology introduced by [[Microsoft]] with [[Windows&nbsp;XP]]<ref name="whatisit">[http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wer/archive/2008/12/26/what-are-wer-services.aspx What are WER Services?]</ref> and included in later Windows versions and [[Windows Mobile]] 5.0 and 6.0. Not to be confused with the [[Dr. Watson (debugger)|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 [[Core dump|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.<ref>[http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wer/archive/2009/03/11/an-overview-of-wer-consent-settings-and-corresponding-ui-behavior.aspx An overview of WER consent settings and corresponding UI behavior]</ref> 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 [https://windowserrors.org/ Windows ErrorErrors] Reporting itself crashes, then an error report that the original crashed process produced cannot be sent at all.

==History==