trying to prevent users from stopping WER from reporting the crash, as part of its strategy of relying on telemetry to improve its products at the expense of privacy, or.I can't help but think that Microsoft is either Also, the behavior may depend on whether a debugger such as Visual Studio is installed.) (This dialog can still appear for foreground apps but I don't usually see it for Windows Store apps, background apps, or system apps like Windows Explorer. However, in Windows 10, I don't typically see this dialog-the app simply closes and the Windows Error Reporting service ( WerFault.exe) reports the crash. In earlier versions of Windows, when an app crashes, I would get a dialog that says ' has stopped working'.