Comments on: Sending an error report to Microsoft

By: JojoUtrecht

JojoUtrecht — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:25:11 +0000

Only 1 question: How can I opt-it-out?

By: KC

KC — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:24:54 +0000

I send error reports all the time… and they DON’T have you fill anything out. After you click yes, the computer generates the report all by itself.

By: RandomGamer

RandomGamer — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:39:35 +0000

And here’s another one!
Failure is always an option! Unless you’re using microsoft, then its the only option.

By: RandomGamer

RandomGamer — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:35:35 +0000

Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with the software!

By: RandomGamer

RandomGamer — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:33:49 +0000

Its microsoft, windows is the operating system thy make! Oh, i was thinking the exact same thing!

By: nathan

nathan — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:21:48 +0000

sixth error report sent… bought a mac

By: Gretgor

Gretgor — Mon, 10 May 2010 01:11:09 +0000

AS IF macs were the best option.

There’s nothing wrong with the PC, the real flaw is in Windows. A PC with Linux is a cheaper and equally efficient option.

By: T

Tue, 04 May 2010 00:48:23 +0000

I have a mac and the safari froze. I sent an error report and nothing happened. same thing. cooler looking laptop

By: T

Tue, 04 May 2010 00:45:56 +0000

lolz

By: robotick

robotick — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:00:52 +0000

Microsoft ask you to send this report to collect information. with that tool, they able to correct many bug from a windows version to another. This will not solve any problem on your computer….

By: zozo3350

zozo3350 — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:43:17 +0000

that is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo true. lolol

By: DonLollio

DonLollio — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:00:19 +0000

You must work for Windows XD

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:16:24 +0000

O RLY?

By: Cat

Cat — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:44:02 +0000

Start recommending Mint. Really. It’s freakin’ awesome.

I’m one of those “just work” people. I can geek around a bit if I need to, but I really don’t want to. Ubuntu wasn’t good enough for me. It felt half-assed, inconsistent, and despite its claims of user friendliness i still had to go into the Terminal just to install Java (none of the packages worked).

Mint is built off Ubuntu, and I finally gave that a try a few months ago. It’s amazing. All the codecs are already installed, it’s way more stable, and all the stuff that it says it does, it actually does.

I think Mint is way more user friendly than Ubuntu. Mostly because it’s just better done than Ubuntu.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:00:25 +0000

Ah, yes, that’s true (well, neither ever happened to me). But what Canonical actually does, is bringing GNU/Linux to the users that don’t need to know how stuff works. And that’s a great thing.

I much prefer to use Arch Linux (or Debian), mainly because I get a clean system and can install only the stuff I need, but I’d rather tell new users to use Ubuntu, as it won’t be hard for them to get started.

By: me

me — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:24:34 +0000

thats why i like to use ubuntu sometimes. it crashes and burns and wrecks my server configuration, just like windows.

but then i get back to my decent linux distro (opensuse, slack, arch, etc) and get none of that ubuntu crap.

and no, canonical is not that good. they never give back to the community. just look on how many kernel patches they send and compare it to how many red hat or novell send. and kernel is only an example of how PR machine crap canonical is.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:16:37 +0000

Ah, but there is a difference. They will have more of your personal details (as if that matters in fixing an error)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:14:57 +0000

Actually, there’s a difference. The report will be sent to MS, which will not bother about 3rd-party software, and so it won’t get fixed.

On Ubuntu (with the nice app Canonical provides), you’ll fill out a bit (oh, come on, saying what you were doing isn’t that hard, is it?) and there’s a quite high chance that it’ll get fixed.

Also it’s -debug (debugging symbols), not -dev (developer headers).

By: Z-Bec

Z-Bec — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:01:33 +0000

There you are. I was looking for you. You’re that guy.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:37:18 +0000

i remember those good old days, before i got a mac

By: homsar

homsar — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:58:23 +0000

Missing the obvious here – Microsoft’s error reporting is in general one-click – no details to fill out. All the ones I’ve used on Ubuntu, though, need to you fill out a page of forms. And then it’s useless because you don’t have the -dev option installed, so it can’t generate a usable backtrace. What’s up with that?

By: BoringTroll

BoringTroll — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:58:33 +0000

Your made up statistics are so out of date. I get these error report popups mostly because some malware was incompatible with the applications I’m trying to run, or the other malware infesting the PC.
Can malware writers opt-in to this service?

By: smartass

smartass — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:45:05 +0000

O RLY?

By: Person777

Person777 — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:08:40 +0000

fifth error report sent… nothing changed

By: Koolboy

Koolboy — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:37:08 +0000

An Error report? Oh I better send this!

By: Centercore

Centercore — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:36:00 +0000

This is why I never look at the comments; people like Emil gotta read too much into it and thus ruin the humor of it. Don’t overanalyze everything.

By: Anne Onymous

Anne Onymous — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:12:40 +0000

It’s a Microsoft product. If it wasn’t bugg(er)ed, they couldn’t sell you the next collection of bugs… erm, I mean version.

By: pwnalogical

pwnalogical — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:57:21 +0000

emil is wrong.
nutin happens in 3 years
999,999,999,998th sent,nothing changes.
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By: Me

Me — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:42:29 +0000

Is he well-hung?

By: gabbo

gabbo — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:31:42 +0000

hmm…i can’t see this graph.

i’m running windows 7.

By: limE

limE — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:30:52 +0000

Still nothing changes.

By: He also doesn't get...

He also doesn't get... — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:17:36 +0000

That you can just turn off error reporting in like four clicks!

By: Emil

Emil — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:01:30 +0000

I hate to be this guy, but whoever made this graph obviously doesn’t understand this at all. About 90% of all windows crashes are caused by by faulty device drivers. The Windows error reporting service is an opt-in-service that any vendor can take advantage of, which provides them with detailed debug information of what went wrong. This gives all these vendors a fighting chance to find and fix the obscure bug that only happens with, for example, your very specific system configuration (combination of mother board and graphics card, or such).

Before you call this service worthless, can you tell me how many times you’ve repeatedly reported crashes, waited for a few months (the typical length of a release cycle for software att most companies) and then upgraded the drivers?

By: teehee

teehee — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:51:03 +0000

C-C-C-C-Combo breaking error report sent…. pattern changed.

By: Zukoca

Zukoca — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:03:36 +0000

Six hundred and thirteenth error report sent… and they issue a security patch that actually causes Hitler to flash across the screen periodically when you’re not looking.

By: Philo

Philo — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:02:54 +0000

Fourth… what are you talking about ?

By: Zukoca

Zukoca — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:01:39 +0000

Ubuntu FTW.

By: insanity_now_comes_in_chainsaw_juggling_clown_flavor

insanity_now_comes_in_chainsaw_juggling_clown_flavor — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:40:24 +0000

fourth error report sent… nothing changed.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:24:03 +0000

Third error report sent… nothing changed.

By: Me

Me — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:59:48 +0000

Second error report sent… nothing changed.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:53:16 +0000

First error report sent to microsoft…nothing changed.

By: McFirst

McFirst — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:06:17 +0000

FIRST!!1!