Error reporting has been modified by Microsoft with nearly every operating system they have released. Windows 2000 users for instance saw a cryptic error message with no options whatsoever to access the error report. This changed under Windows XP, and was further modified under Windows Vista and Windows 7. While it is easier to work [...]
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Restart On Crash Automatically Restarts Crashed Or Frozen Applications
It is a given that applications crash or hang from time to time leaving the user with no other choice but to restart them to continue working. The causes are manifold, and troubleshooting takes a lot of time especially to uncover why a specific application crashed at a specific time. Crashed or frozen apps are [...]
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Autosave what you type with Emsa Save my work
Did you ever experience the loss of a large text that you have written because you did press the wrong button, accidentally closed a window or a program crash ? I did and it really felt terribly to write everything again. I recently read a nice forum discussion about the subject at the Donation Coder blog where the thread starter was asking for a program that would log the text that he was writing to make sure that it would not get lost when something like the above happened.
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Freeware Crash Doctor
Crash Doctor is a useful windows freeware that tries to recover crashed windows programs. The program activates itself when a windows program crashes and tries to recover the program from crashing state by careful analysis of the program.
The second purpose of Crash Doctor is to prevent further damage to other files that are dependant on the crashed program. If the program tries to open an existing file for writing CrashDoctor intercepts this and copies the original file to a backup location. This prevents any further damage done by the misbehaving program.