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Thinking Out of the Box

Q. Every time you open the specific Microsoft Word 2007 document on Vista WER error message box appears on the screen (click on the picture to enlarge):

What might be the cause of it?

You can find the correct answer in the comments to this post. 

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

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2 Responses to “Thinking Out of the Box”

  1. Dmitry Vostokov Says:
    March 7th, 2008 at 3:40 pm

    A. WER error message screenshot was embedded in Microsoft Word document.

    In my earlier days of software development career I was sending similar documents to testers when they were looking for bugs in my word processor I developed at that time :-)

  2. Dmitry Vostokov Says:
    March 7th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

    Another good question :-)

    Q. Why the cursor is blinking when we have this error?
    A. Multithreading!

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