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What is Windows actually doing when a program crashes and the message "[Program] is trying to recover your information" appears?


When a Windows application crashes, a window similar to this appears saying "[ApplicationName] is trying to recover your information" Application Crash Sample

What is Windows actually doing during this time? How is it recovering my information?


Solution

  • I noticed some files getting restored to a previous version after the application crashed and this trying to recover your information is left to finish what it's doing.

    So, after a crash, Windows seems to be using the System Restore to "recover" some open files to a previous state, thinking that they might have been corrupted by the crash.

    If the trying to recover your information window is cancelled, the files remain in their current state at the crash time.