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Old 02-19-2006, 10:12 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Diesel Mac
Every time a program freezes that Microsoft Error Report screen comes up. Do they really do anything or is it just a waste of time?
It just goes in a huge database at Microshit. They probably never have a person look directly at the report (since it is just a big dump of the crashing process's memory space). A computer program probably scans all of the error reports they get and looks for patterns. If they see a really common pattern, they might investigate further.

But overall, I doubt that the error reports have bettered Windows very much.
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