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Winqual enables you to qualify hardware devices and software applications for Microsoft logo programs. You may then provide information about your products on the Windows Product Listing sites as well as update your driver distribution settings on Windows Update and retrieve end-user crash data.

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WinQual: Why would WER not accept code-signing certificates?

Edit as of 1/24/2015: It is not possible to use other trusted certificate authorities now. Question and answer is not obsolete: WinQual still rejects the signature: when we've already established that it is a valid digital signature: For…
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How do I get the "bucket id" that winqual uses if I have a minidump file or exception structure? (Windows c++)

There are a few related questions on SO - but have not found the answer - I would like to generate a "signature"/bucket id to report a minidump/crash back to our issue tracking system. Since MS already does this with "bucket ids" I figured I could…
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Cheap code signing to be "Windows 7 compatible"

I am currently looking for a "Windows 7 compatible" certification, and to get it, you need to implement code signing. Now I look for a cheap certificate, and I found some cheap alternatives to Verisign certificates in Stack Overflow question…
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How can I test Windows Error Reporting?

My company participates in Windows Error Reporting via Winqual. We'd like to add some additional data to our crash reports, using WERRegisterMemoryBlock. Obviously we'd like to make sure this is working before we ship our next version. How can we…
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Is the WER (winqual) web service API documented anywhere

I can find a few examples of accessing WER data through a SOAP API such as this: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wer/archive/2010/05/14/winqual-web-services-with-windows-powershell.aspx Is the API they're calling documented anywhere?
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Is there any way to do a WER "Request Additional Files" for the windows temp directory?

My company has had numerous crashes reported to windows error reporting due to what looks like an install problem. The logs for our installs are typically in the windows\temp directory. I would like to include the install log file as a "Request…
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How can I get Windows Error Report (WER) reports for a win32 exe from Microsoft in 2019

Because the documentation is hopelessly out of date (directing you to the non-existent Winqual or sysdev.microsoft.com) I can see that my exe is sending these reports from the control panel, but I cannot find anywhere to register to receive them on…
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How to request additional data with WER?

I'm new to WER (actually, just registered a few days ago). I've managed to establish an account and map my test application to it. However, when I invoke an unhandled exception, I see that no additional files are collected (there is proper report in…
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Manually trigger Windows Error Reporting from a Outlook COM Add-In

I am writing a Outlook COM Add In using Visual Studio 2008 and VSTO. If an exception goes unhandled in the add in, I would like it to trigger Windows Error Reporting (WER). Our company has access to WinQual so that we can get reports of WER…
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how long before dump files are available for download from WinQual

this is my first time using WinQual/WER to gather dump files for release builds and it appears that everything is working. the last step is to download the dump files from the WinQual hotlist page for a product. on this page there are event IDs…
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How to enable the Window Error Reporting (WER) dialog. Total newbie question

After setting up WinQual and WER for the first time, I intentionally inserted a crash in a release build expecting\hoping to get the WER dialogue but instead still get the dialogue containing "runtime error! The application has requested the…
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Winqual for Mac OSX

is there a way to see applications crashes of our mac-application like we can using error reports using Microsoft's WinQual for windows applications? Thank you! Regards Uwe
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How does Microsoft generate the Event ID for winqual events?

I am curious about the IDs that are used to identify items in winqual. I assume it is some sort of hash. Is this published? Hash of the module name, its version and an offset? That seems appropriate but the size is too small to cover the…
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