Windows – Where does Sticky Notes save data

How to restore Windows 7 after installing the Windows 8 Developer Preview.

This link worked for me , only try this is you want to keep your accounts and personal files when installing Windows 8, it has not been verified to work if you performed a “Custom/Clean” install of Windows 8.

You will need the Windows.old folder for this proceedure to work Text Only Version: http://www.pagestart.com/w8pbrecoverw709291101.html With screen shots: http://www.pagestart.com/w8pbrecoverw710291101.html

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I observed the following with Windows 8.1 Professional:

Windows Error Reporting writes to: %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\WER\

However, per default, it no longer permanently stores the dumps on the local computer.  You need to explicitly enable the storing of the dumps.

Use the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc): Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Error Reporting -> Advanced Error Reporting Settings

1. Enable the policy Configure Report Archive:

   • Archive behaviour = Store all
   • Max number = 100

2. You may also want to enable the policy Do not throttle additional data to send and store dumps for consecutive crashes with similar signature.

The dumps are inside the file Report.cab of the crash specific subfolder.