You can try using GetWindowText to quickly grab the crash log or error code, for technical support in such situations. Often, these messages are long, and complex. Most of us would have had some program or driver crash and display some error message. GetWindowText is made by Nenad Hrg, the developer behind DirPrintOK and Q-Dir. For instance, this works well with Device Manager. If you find that it doesn't work with a program or part of some application's interface, click on the Options menuÂ and select 'Start in administrator mode' to grant it elevated rights.

The Windows Task Manager is an exception, while GetWindowText can't get the text from most of the Task Manager tabs, click on the Details tab and you'll see that it does grab the text from it. This is not a major issue, since the text content in these programs can be copied normally. This is due to the way these programs are designed and display the content. If you read the documentation for GetWindowTextLength and also for GetWindowText you will see that neither function is able to retrieve the requested information from an edit control in a different application. It does not work with the elements in the interface of Firefox, Thunderbird, Word, etc. It works brilliantly with the 'installer interface' of most programs, Windows Explorer's tree view to name some examples.

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