I have a question about Stop Windows XP from asking if you want to send a report to Microsoft whenever a program crashes:

Seems like the most stupid idea in the world to me. If you don't tell them about all those crashes, how are they ever going to get them fixed? A little trivia for you about this feature: each crash report is uniquely identified by the application and how it died. MS looks at all these bugs and then fixes the ones that have crashed the most number of times. So if you want your annoying crash to get fixed faster, then you should always click the "Send" button. Let Bill Gates feel your pain!!

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Absolutely! And nice to hear some support for Microsoft too. Out of the blue I receive 
a note from Microsoft Crash Analysis, I still have their email, asking have I checked 
for Comet Cursor on my system after several IE6.0 crashes. I quickly paid the $20 
(?) for AdAware plus and removed a LOT of other spybots as well. I passed this on 
to someone in Australia and she removed 197 pieces of spyware off her computer. Iain.

 
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On Friday, August 9, 2002 at 12:09 pm, Hugh Jorgan wrote:
>I have a question about Stop 
>Windows XP from asking if you want to send a report to Microsoft whenever a program 
>crashes:

>
>Seems like the most stupid idea in the world to me. If you don't tell them about 
>all those crashes, how are they ever going to get them fixed? A little trivia for 
>you about this feature: each crash report is uniquely identified by the application 
>and how it died. MS looks at all these bugs and then fixes the ones that have crashed 
>the most number of times. So if you want your annoying crash to get fixed faster, 
>then you should always click the "Send" button. Let Bill Gates feel your pain!! 
>

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C'mon, I must've sent about 200 error reports, & Microsoft have sent "fixes" about 3 times, all directing me to a Windows XP fix site, while I'm running '98. I read them & tried them anyway, with no difference whatsoever. If they can't even tell from their report which of their OS's I'm using, how can you expect them to solve/fix any of these bugs?!


On Friday, August 9, 2002 at 12:09 pm, Hugh Jorgan wrote:
>I have a question about Stop
>Windows XP from asking if you want to send a report to Microsoft whenever a program
>crashes:

>
>Seems like the most stupid idea in the world to me. If you don't tell them about
>all those crashes, how are they ever going to get them fixed? A little trivia for
>you about this feature: each crash report is uniquely identified by the application
>and how it died. MS looks at all these bugs and then fixes the ones that have crashed
>the most number of times. So if you want your annoying crash to get fixed faster,
>then you should always click the "Send" button. Let Bill Gates feel your pain!!
>

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I completely agree, if MS paid any REAL attention to what must be billions of error reports, we'd be using a bug free operating system by now. Personally I think the error report system has been added purely to give end users a kind of satisfaction, to make them feel like they made a diffrence, and that MS is hard at work to fix the problem, even though they just suffered a crash of some sort. If you have a problem with windows, the only sure-fire way to get rid of it, is to fix it yourself, Period. ;) Ms

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well, this is why its called annoyances.org, IF you find it annoying all those 'send report' errors, you can disable it, if you DONT find it annoying, feel free to send away, simple really...

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How do you disable it? Thx


On Thursday, September 12, 2002 at 7:17 pm, Jonnie wrote:
>well, this is why its called annoyances.org, IF you find it annoying all those 'send
>report' errors, you can disable it, if you DONT find it annoying, feel free to send
>away, simple really...

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Guess you 've found it aleady but anyway: System > Advanced (tab) > Error Reporting > disable error reporting.


On Monday, October 21, 2002 at 3:23 pm, John Glieson wrote:
>How do you disable it? Thx
>
>

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Of course...you could just install Windows 2000 and not have to worry about those annoying pop-ups...as 2000 is the most stable.


On Monday, December 16, 2002 at 11:31 pm, Ariez wrote:
>Guess you 've found it aleady but anyway: System > Advanced (tab) > Error Reporting
> disable error reporting.
>
>

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On the other hand - you could do one better, it goes as follows.

on the c: prompt, type format c:

choose yes, and watch your windows problems fall away.

Then, using a boot disk, use fdisk to delete your primary fat32 partition.

finally, buy (or download on a fast connection) Mandrake, Redhat or SuSE linux.

Install it!

finally, you will not need to worry about crashing what so ever.

David

____________________________
Hardware:
Gigabyte KT233
XP2000 processor
256mb 2100DDR
30gb WD HDD
Mandrake Linux 9.0 with KDE 3.04
A lot less crashes, a lot more time






On Saturday, January 4, 2003 at 4:38 am, David wrote:
>   Of course...you could just install Windows 2000 and not have to worry about those 
>annoying pop-ups...as 2000 is the most stable.
>
>

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OS/2 does have many advantages, for all Ibm`s attempts to get rid of it, it is`nt as dead as you might think, and can coexist quite happily with windows, after a bit of hacking (on the windows side), my warp 4 and nt4 boot from the same hpfs partition. It can even run an increasing number of win32 programs, and virtually all win16 ones. Perhaps above all, os/2 relies much less on arcane, inpenetrable binary configuration files, of which the windoze registry is by far the worst example.


On Monday, January 27, 2003 at 9:01 am, David wrote:

>On the other hand - you could do one better, it goes as follows.
>
>on the c: prompt, type format c:
>
>choose yes, and watch your windows problems fall away.
>
>Then, using a boot disk, use fdisk to delete your primary fat32 partition.
>
>finally, buy (or download on a fast connection) Mandrake, Redhat or SuSE linux.
>
>Install it!
>
>finally, you will not need to worry about crashing what so ever.
>
>David
>
>____________________________
>Hardware:
>Gigabyte KT233
>XP2000 processor
>256mb 2100DDR
>30gb WD HDD
>Mandrake Linux 9.0 with KDE 3.04
>A lot less crashes, a lot more time
>
>

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Thank you!!! I didn't know how to get it to stop that annoying behavior, but for the last year I've been annoyed by those messages. I DO NOT want my machine to report anything to microsoft (forcing me to contact them to 'activate' my purchased software was about as much contact with them as I wanted... OK, actually that was more contact than I wanted...). Yet with the box that asks you to send reports, there is no indication that you can turn it off. And trying to search by keyword to find out how has been frustrating. Finally this time I have found a way how (thanks to you). Thanks again. And to those who say 'this is common sense you *should* send you reports to them', I can only say, Up Yours. My machine is mine. They don't own me or my crashes. If they want info on how their OS works, then they can test it, or ask me for my cooperation in testing it. Don't force me. 'it isn't forcing' I hear you say. Well damn, if I hit any default key, then it sends the report, and that isn't asking, if you ask me (though you didn't ask me, and neither did MS)


On Monday, December 16, 2002 at 11:31 pm, Ariez wrote:
>Guess you 've found it aleady but anyway: System > Advanced (tab) > Error Reporting
> disable error reporting.
>
>

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I was an OS/2 enthusiast. Oh, how I wish there was current movement for it. I also was a BE enthusiast. Must every OS I embrace die slowly? I guess I should embrace windows ;)


On Monday, June 2, 2003 at 1:59 pm, Tom wrote:
>OS/2 does have many advantages, for all Ibm`s attempts to get rid of it, it is`nt
>as dead as you might think, and can coexist quite happily with windows, after a
>bit of hacking (on the windows side), my warp 4 and nt4 boot from the same hpfs
>partition. It can even run an increasing number of win32 programs, and virtually
>all win16 ones. Perhaps above all, os/2 relies much less on arcane, inpenetrable
>binary configuration files, of which the windoze registry is by far the worst example.
>
>
>

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XP is the worst thing ever! It keeps crashing my computer and another thing. Bill Gates made his money he doesn't give a shit about my computer problems caused by his "invention".


On Friday, August 9, 2002 at 12:09 pm, Hugh Jorgan wrote:
>I have a question about Stop
>Windows XP from asking if you want to send a report to Microsoft whenever a program
>crashes:

>
>Seems like the most stupid idea in the world to me. If you don't tell them about
>all those crashes, how are they ever going to get them fixed? A little trivia for
>you about this feature: each crash report is uniquely identified by the application
>and how it died. MS looks at all these bugs and then fixes the ones that have crashed
>the most number of times. So if you want your annoying crash to get fixed faster,
>then you should always click the "Send" button. Let Bill Gates feel your pain!!
>

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I go through a Proxy box at work to access the outside world, this runs a peice of software that unless logged in will not let you access the internet or indeed anything beyond our network. So how then when I am not logged into 'gatekeeper' do I get one of these annoying boxes relating to a 3rd party peice of software bespoke to our company, saying that the error report has been sent when I know damm well this cannot possible be the case as I installed the system myself! Yes MS do tell porkies!!!! And don't try and tell me all these millions of error reports going through to MS every hour have any bairing on new releases of software, this is a feature used to instill a false sense of security into home users. Make your own mind up!!!

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I have a friend who works on MS Outlook. They use these reports to find and fix bugs. They have even found and fixed bugs that have been there since the beginning, so yeah - send in the reports if you want the products to improve. What I am not sure of is what happens to reports on non-MS products. Hopefully they get forwarded.

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