[gui-talk] Kind of a stupid question from someone new to XP.

[tribble]

Well, you can send the error report -- you will do your part to make windows 
a better product -- and you will also get a web page that hopefully 
identifies the source of the error, whether or not it is a known problem, 
and whatever else they have to say about it. Now unfortunately this does you 
very little good as you are typically not able to fix the problem yourself, 
but as I said, it does help microsoft.  One thing to remember though: If you 
read the link that tells the details of the error report you will get a 
disclaimer that the data you are sending may contain information that 
identifies you or whatever, but that if this happens it will only be used to 
improve microsoft products and for no other purpose.
Also, I have send some of my errors to Microsoft to see what I could learn, 
but most often it says something like "error in driver" and gives no 
information as to which driver.  If they supplied this information it would 
help me as I could identify the developer of the driver and update it, or 
else just reinstall the driver to prevent it from crashing again. I tell 
this to Microsoft every time but they never change things.
And so I seldom ever send error reports.
Happy computing.
--le



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Kenlawrence124 at aol.com>
To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 7:47 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] Kind of a stupid question from someone new to XP.


Hi list members, Today I did a dixc check and when the computer came up, a
Microsoft dialog came up saying that an error report was made, it gives you 
the
 option of sending or not sending the report.  It wouldn't make a difference
since I'm on a dial up connection and so I couldn't go online, but if and
when I  go broadband what would happen if I say yes to that question?  What 
would
 Microsoft do to make that error not happen again?  In other words, does it
really make a big difference sending or not sending that error report?  New
to XP never saw that on 98 or windows NT 2000 only the fact that an error 
log
had been made or that it found an error and fixed it.

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