A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. It will say “application.exe has stopped working. If you disable Error Reporting, you will still get a similar error window but it won’t ask or try to check online. It’s function is to gather and send crash data to Microsoft and if they have a possible solution to the crash, it’s sent back to the user.
The check online option of the error dialog is part of Windows Error Reporting that has been in Windows since XP. The problem is Windows will always show the dialog when a program crashes which means the computer cannot be left alone as what it’s doing will be halted until you return and click close. This is not ideal if you are running unattended automation scripts or hosting a game server such as Counter-Strike because the program or server software needs to be restarted automatically without user input. Another possible message is a program has stopped responding popup which is similar but means the program has hung instead of crashed. At this point the process is still present in the background and you can’t run another instance unless you physically click “Close the program” or choose to let Windows look for a solution online.
Windows can check online for a solution to the problem”.
If a game or application you are running crashes it will likely show a popup window with the message “application.exe has stopped working.
