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MD-100 Configure post-installation settings and personalization - Training
MD-100 Configure post-installation settings and personalization
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Windows Error Reporting (WER) provides many settings to customize the problem reporting experience. All of these settings can be set using Group Policy. Some can also be changed in Action Center for Windows 7 and Windows 8. For Windows 10, use the search function in Settings to locate View advanced system settings. WER settings are located in one of the following registry subkeys:
BypassDataThrottling
REG_DWORD
Possible values:
0 - Disable data bypass throttling. If the bypass is disabled or not configured as a policy setting, WER throttles data by default. WER does not upload more than one CAB file for a report that contains data about the same event types.
1 - Enable data bypass throttling. WER does not throttle data. WER uploads additional CAB files that can contain data about the same event types as an earlier uploaded report.
Whether to enable the bypass of WER client data throttling
ConfigureArchive
REG_DWORD
Possible values:
Whether to archive parameters only or all data
Consent\DefaultConsent
REG_DWORD
Possible values:
Default consent choice
Consent\DefaultOverrideBehavior
REG_DWORD
Possible values:
Whether default consent overrides vertical consent
Consent\[VerticalName]
REG_DWORD
Possible values:
Consent choice for the WER plug-in
CorporateWERDirectory
REG_SZ
The directory path
Target directory on the server
CorporateWERPortNumber
REG_DWORD
The port number
Port number to be used with the corporate server
CorporateWERServer
REG_SZ
The name of the server
Corporate server name
CorporateWERUseAuthentication
REG_DWORD
Possible values:
Whether to use Windows Integrated Authentication
CorporateWERUseSSL
REG_DWORD
Possible values:
Whether to use SSL
DebugApplications\[ExeName] (replace "[ExeName]" with an actual name of an .exe file, for example, "notepad.exe")
REG_DWORD
Possible values:
DebugApplications\* ("*" is the literal value name)
REG_DWORD
Possible values:
DisableArchive
REG_DWORD
Possible values:
Enable or disable the archive
Disabled
REG_DWORD
Possible values:
Enable or disable WER
DisableQueue
REG_DWORD
Possible values:
Enable or disable report queuing
DontShowUI
REG_DWORD
Possible values:
Enable or disable the WER UI
DontSendAdditionalData
REG_DWORD
Possible values:
Whether to prevent sending second-level data
ExcludedApplications\[Application Name]
REG_SZ
List of excluded applications
ForceQueue
REG_DWORD
Possible values:
Whether to send all reports to the user's queue
LocalDumps\DumpFolder or LocalDumps\[Application Name]\DumpFolder
REG_EXPAND_SZ
The directory path. The default value is %LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps. If the default is not used, the application must ensure that the folder has a sufficient ACL.
Windows Vista: The registry values under the LocalDumps key are not supported. Note that this behavior changed with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 (SP1).
The path where the dump files are to be stored.
Note that per-process settings will override any global settings that exist For more information, see Collecting User-Mode Dumps.
This setting is not supported in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry hive.
LocalDumps\DumpCount or LocalDumps\[Application Name]\DumpCount
REG_DWORD
The maximum number. The default is 10. When the maximum value is exceeded, the oldest dump file in the folder will be replaced with the new dump file.
Windows Vista: The registry values under the LocalDumps key are not supported. Note that this behavior changed with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista with SP1.
The maximum number of dump files in the folder.
This setting is not supported in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry hive.
LocalDumps\DumpType or LocalDumps\[Application Name]\DumpType
REG_DWORD
Possible values:
Windows Vista: The registry values under the LocalDumps key are not supported. Note that this behavior changed with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista with SP1.
The dump type.
This setting is not supported in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry hive.
LocalDumps\CustomDumpFlags or LocalDumps\[Application Name]\CustomDumpFlags
REG_DWORD
One or more values from the MINIDUMP_TYPE enumeration. The default is {MiniDumpWithDataSegs|MiniDumpWithUnloadedModules|MiniDumpWithProcessThreadData}.
Windows Vista: The registry values under the LocalDumps key are not supported. Note that this behavior changed with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista with SP1.
The custom dump options to be used. This value is used only when DumpType is set to 0.
This setting is not supported in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry hive.
LoggingDisabled
REG_DWORD
Possible values:
Enable or disable logging
MaxArchiveCount
REG_DWORD
Range of possible values: 1–5000. The default is 1000.
Maximum size of the archive, in files
MaxQueueCount
REG_DWORD
Range of possible values: 1–500. The default is 50.
Maximum size of the queue
QueuePesterInterval
REG_DWORD
Number of days
Interval between reminders to the user to check for solutions, in days
RuntimeExceptionHelperModules![ pwszOutOfProcessCallbackDll name including path]
REG_DWORD
The contents of the value are ignored.
The name of the value is used to fetch the pwszOutOfProcessCallbackDll value.
Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP: This registry value is not supported.
WER's Live Kernel Reports settings, which are described next, are both located under the following registry subkey:
For Windows 10 1703, Windows Server 2019, and later:
For Windows 10 builds 1607 and older, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2016, and Windows Server 2012 R2:
ComponentThrottleThreshold
REG_DWORD
The threshold (in hours) of how often any single component can create a full live dump. This value must be greater than or equal to SystemThrottleThreshold. Setting both to zero (0) will disable all time-based throttling. The default is 168 (7 days).
FullLiveReportsMax
REG_DWORD
The maximum number of full live dumps that may be on disk at any given time. The default is 1. On Windows 10 1803, Windows Server 2019, and later, setting this value to zero (0) will disable the live dump feature.
LastFullLiveReport
REG_QWORD
A SystemTime indicating the last full live report time, for the system or a specific ReportType. This is used to calculate whether a policy threshold has been satisfied.
SystemThrottleThreshold
REG_DWORD
The threshold (in hours) of how often any component on the system can create a full live dump. The default is 120 (5 days).
LiveKernelReportsPath
REG_SZ
The redirected storage location of live kernel reports. The default location is %systemroot%\LiveKernelReports. This value must be a valid path. The path must be in NT path format. For example, ??\C:\LiveDumpsFolder. For more information on path formats, see File path formats on Windows systems.
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MD-100 Configure post-installation settings and personalization - Training
MD-100 Configure post-installation settings and personalization