j7n Posted November 16, 2024 Posted November 16, 2024 I removed the Error Reporting service and some other things from Windows 2003. Now, when a program crashes with a protection fault, I get no message. It just closes. I have checkmarked "But notify me when critical errors occur". I tried to put ersvc.dll and registry entries back in, but the service has some other dependencies and won't start. I just want to see an error message. Maybe it is caused by another removal. Can I restore it?
NotHereToPlayGames Posted November 16, 2024 Posted November 16, 2024 1 hour ago, j7n said: Can I restore it? Generally speaking, NO, something removed by nLite requires re-doing the nLite'd media and reinstalling. It's not impossible to restore. But you'll spend 4 days trying to figure out "how" when it only takes 3 to 5 hours to archive everything, re-do the nLite'd media, and reinstall. As a gigantic fan of nLite'd, vLite'd, NTLite'd, and WinReducerEX'd installations, Rule #1 is this - always test in a VM.
j7n Posted November 16, 2024 Author Posted November 16, 2024 In the end, the component has to boil down to files and registry that are either taken from INFs during setup or DllRegisterServer. I'm surprised that the program error box depends on something external. My reasoning for removal was that I don't ever want errors reported to someone. On Windows 2022 a group policy setting was needed to display the dialog. Customizing the computer has taken me several days. It's never 3 to 5 hours. I encountered a crashing program only later.
NotHereToPlayGames Posted November 16, 2024 Posted November 16, 2024 Depends on much experience you have with nLite. Once you get a validated process working, it will become hours instead of days. The first "several" trial-and-error iterations will be days, agreed. That's why you always always always test in a VM first.
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