Windows XP Update: Windows Error Reporting Update
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 09 July 2003 - 18:14 · 16 comments & 1908 views
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#1 Posted by timbo3 on 09 Jul 2003 - 18:49
- This looks handy. I'll have to put back on error reporting just for this.
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#2 Posted by Mr. Black on 09 Jul 2003 - 20:15
- Boy talk about a patch day here at Neowin...lotsa patches!
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#3 Posted by astrokat on 09 Jul 2003 - 23:00
- wasn't this already a feature of XP?
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#3.2 Posted by CCoil on 10 Jul 2003 - 02:36
- IIRC, it was a feature in the Beta of XP that didn't make it to the final release. It was for this reason that I turned off Error Reporting, since without this feature of E.R., it wasn't of much use.
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#3.3 Posted by IntelliMoo on 10 Jul 2003 - 05:55
- How could not letting ms know of every single app bomb you get not be of much use??!!! ms should be bombarded with every single crash so they can fix their buggy os as much as possible! heh
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#3.4 Posted by CCoil on 10 Jul 2003 - 10:19
- Agreed. I turned it off after I wasn't getting any "New and Improved" crashes.
It may get shut off again - I enabled the feature to see if a Logitec iTouch (keyboard software) problem had been solved. The resulting page basically said "It's not our problem, here's Logitech's URL. Thank you for playing."
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#4 Posted by KevinRGood on 10 Jul 2003 - 03:48
- Save it for WinXP SP2
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#5 Posted by SlowNeasy on 10 Jul 2003 - 10:10
- Like I want automatic interaction with MS. Especially when it can't be removed. No thanks
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#6 Posted by briangw on 10 Jul 2003 - 12:27
- how about an update to turn this error tool off?
Nm, forgot it was part of group policy. ha!!!
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#7 Posted by Mr. Black on 10 Jul 2003 - 13:26
- I don't see why some of you are so against Automatic Error Reporting. You think Microsoft is peering into your computer and your habits, when infact all the Error Reprting does is send Crash data to them. Unless I'm looking at something like pr0n or illegal, I would have no problems with sending them crash dumps to fix the product from doing it again. Too much paranoia with you ppl...
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#8 Posted by Avenger on 10 Jul 2003 - 14:42
- From the corresponding Knowledge Base article.
QUOTE You can use the Add or Remove Programs utility in Control Panel to remove the update.
Where do you all see the "Cannot be uninstalled" line? -
#8.1 Posted by JaggedFlame on 10 Jul 2003 - 15:31
- In the blurb:
QUOTE Once you have installed this item, it cannot be removed. -
#8.2 Posted by Avenger on 10 Jul 2003 - 16:31
- Well, someone made a mistake, typing wise then. Because in the Knowledge Base Article it says: "You can use the Add or Remove Programs utility in Control Panel to remove the update."
Someone not thinking when they wrote that? Guess so.
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#9 Posted by jazmon on 11 Jul 2003 - 10:41
- it wouldnt let me update it because i have sp2 v1213..lol
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