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Does anyone send error messages to Microsoft?

  • 27-12-2010 2:20pm
    #1
    Fishyfreak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 576 ✭✭✭


    Why does this poxy "Do you want to send an error message to Microsoft" message appear when my laptop is having an eppo.

    Who actually sends Microsoft error messages?

    Why, Why, Whyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!??????


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  • #2
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Fishyfreak wrote: »
    Why does this poxy "Do you want to send an error message to Microsoft" message appear when my laptop is having an eppo.

    Who actually sends Microsoft error messages?

    Why, Why, Whyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!??????

    You do know you can turn that off.....


  • #3
    kirving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,129 ✭✭✭kirving


    So they can be made aware of common problems which can be fixed in future updates?

    Just a theory of mine.


  • #4
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    I use a Mac but i still do just for the craic... :)


  • #5
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,231 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    More importantly, do any of the errors get solved? Mine never have been. Get your finger out Gates.:(


  • #6
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    I use a Mac but i still do just for the craic... :)
    You send the error messages to Microsoft? Is there an email address or something?


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  • #7
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    I use Linux so no.


  • #8
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    You send the error messages to Microsoft? Is there an email address or something?
    I send them on a postcard....:)


  • #9
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,984 ✭✭✭Degag


    Fishyfreak wrote: »
    Why does this poxy "Do you want to send an error message to Microsoft" message appear when my laptop is having an eppo.

    Who actually sends Microsoft error messages?

    Why, Why, Whyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!??????

    No, just in case it has something to do with all the porn on my computer and they think i'm some kind of pervert.

    I am a pervertbut i don't really want people to know it!


  • #10
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Yes, occassionally.


  • #11
    Fishyfreak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 576 ✭✭✭Fishyfreak


    I wonder who the poor F*ckers are that have to read them?


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  • #12
    TimTim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 804 ✭✭✭TimTim


    Fishyfreak wrote: »
    I wonder who the poor F*ckers are that have to read them?

    Most of the time they'll be automatically parsed by their analysis service.

    Sometimes it will give you a URL to check the results of the crash dump and will tell you which driver/service is to blame for the crash.


  • #13
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    No. I watch porn on redtube instead.


  • #14
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    Newbies send the error message.

    The rest of us just fix the problem.


  • #15
    GizAGoOfYerGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭GizAGoOfYerGee


    Yes, they do read them!

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/04/12/407562.aspx
    A bunch of us were going through some Windows crashes that people sent in by clicking the "Send Error Report" button in the crash dialog. And there were huge numbers of them that made no sense whatsoever. ..

    ..Since the failure rate for this particular error was comparatively high (certainly higher than the one or two I was getting for the failures I was looking at), he requested that the next ten people to encounter this error be given the opportunity to leave their email address and telephone number so that he could call them and ask follow-up questions. Some time later, he got word that ten people took him up on this offer, and he sent each of them e-mail asking them various questions about their hardware configurations, including whether they were overclocking.


  • #16
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    I doubt if anyone in Microsoft is going to bother reading all the error message replies.

    Another reason for this is to monitor those that are using a genuine copy of Windows and those that are not.


  • #17
    Sarn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,110 ✭✭✭Sarn


    Yep, sent one this morning. Knowing my system it's a graphic driver problem or Kaspersky messing up. Who knows, maybe they'll sort out a long term solution.


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