Editing General protection fault (section)

== Specific behavior ==
=== Microsoft Windows ===

In [[Microsoft Windows]], the general protection fault presents with varied language, depending on product version:
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! scope=col | Operating system !! scope=col | Error message !! scope=col | Notes
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! scope=row | [[Windows 3.0]]
| UNRECOVERABLE APPLICATION ERROR
Terminating current application.
| <ref>{{cite web|title=Troubleshooting "Unrecoverable Application Error" in DrWatson|url=https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/75490|website=Support|publisher=[[Microsoft]]|date=27 February 2014}}</ref>
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! scope=row | [[Windows 3.1x]]
| [Program Name] caused a General Protection Fault in module [module name] at [memory address].
| This error message (with the same design format) can also appear in later versions (95, 98 and Me) in rare occasions. The text of this error also appears in 95, 98 and Me if the 'Details' button is clicked or if Alt+D is pressed, with the addition of Registers, Bytes at CS:EIP and Stack Dump.
|-
! scope=row | [[Windows 95]]<br/>[[Windows 98]]
| This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.
If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.
|Sometimes, the error also says, "Quit all programs, and then restart your computer", especially when the problem is more severe or when the system is unstable, and the return address points into a Windows DLL or other system processes. When a debugger is installed, there is also a Debug button between the Close and Details buttons.
|-
! scope=row |[[Windows NT 4.0]]<br/>[[Windows 2000]]
| [Program Name] has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program.
An error log is being created.
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|-
! scope=row | [[Windows Me]]
| [Program Name] has caused an error in [Module Name]. [Program Name] will now close.
If you continue to experience problems, try restarting your computer.
|When a debugger is installed, there is also a Debug button below the Close button. Details are still viewable by pressing Alt+D and via the faultlog.txt file.
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! scope=row | [[Windows XP]]<br/>[[Windows Server 2003]]<br/>[[Windows Server 2003 R2]]
| [Program Name] has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
If you were in the middle of something, the information you were working on might be lost.

[...]

For more information about this error, <u>click here</u>.
|The error message also offers the option to send error details to Microsoft for analysis.
|-
! scope=row | [[Windows Vista]] and later, excluding Windows 10<br/>[[Windows Server 2008]] and later
| rowspan=2 | [Program Name] has stopped working.
A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.
|By default, Windows will send error details to Microsoft for analysis but the system can be configured to either not send, or ask the user what to do each time.
|-
! scope=row | [[Windows 10]]<br/>[[Windows 11]]
| Windows will send error details to Microsoft for analysis. Users with a business license can configure how much information is sent. Note: Later versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11 have this dialog disabled by default, with the program simply being closed if a general protection fault occurs. The dialog can be enabled through the registry editor.

1.Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting.

2.Create a DWORD, name it DontShowUI and leave its value at 0 (if it already exists, set its value to 0).
|}

In Windows 95, 98 and Me, there is an alternate error message, used mostly with Windows 3.x programs: "An error has occurred in your program. To keep working anyway, click Ignore and save your work in a new file. To quit this program, click Close. You will lose information you entered since your last save." Clicking "Close" results in one of the error messages above, depending on Windows version. "Ignore" sometimes does this too.

=== Unix ===
In [[Linux]] and other [[Unix|Unices]], the errors are reported separately (e.g. [[segmentation fault]] for memory errors).