How to stop reporting to Microsoft

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Michael Tissington

Every time an application crashes I get a dialog that says it's checking
with Microsoft for a solution.

How do I switch this off ?
 
Michael Tissington said:
Every time an application crashes I get a dialog that says it's checking
with Microsoft for a solution.

How do I switch this off ?
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Control Panel > System and Maintenance > Problem Reports and Solutions >
Settings > Advanced.

Charlie42
 
Michael Tissington said:
Every time an application crashes I get a dialog that says it's checking
with Microsoft for a solution.

How do I switch this off ?
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I Stopped Reporting To Microsoft. I Gave Them Two Weeks Notice. Just FYI
 
Charlie42 said:
Control Panel > System and Maintenance > Problem Reports and Solutions >
Settings > Advanced.

Charlie42
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Or you can turn off the error reporting service in services.msc
 
Bob said:
Why would you want to do that? How is MS supposed to know about problems?
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By reading forums like this one. I don't allow any connections to open
that I don't need or want.
 
Why would you want to do that? How is MS supposed to know about
problems?
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What good does reporting anything to Microsoft do?

My experience has been Microsoft ignores more than they fix. Does Microsoft
reveal publicly how many problem reports they receive and what they've done
about them?
 
Not that I've ever seen.

There's a team that sifts through this data to do the right thing.
 
What are fault details / fault bucket number for your particular crash
according to that Problem Report and Solutions Center control panel?

Error reporting via UseNet/forums is phenomenally unworkable of an idea.
Assuming you crash and I find you and get your data, I then go to XXX and
say "Hey I would like to fix this" and they say "What are the net effects?"
and I saw "well, one guy had a crash and there are no reported crashes of
this at all via Watson... but it'd be good to fix =D" - that conversation
doesn't go well.

(I've gotten stuff fixed like that, but it makes life easier to have better
data/numbers. Obviously, the more reports sent in for particular crashes,
the more likely it is to get fixed more quickly.)

Plus, the average person is ill-equipped to provide fault data and
potentially the crash DMP via any other venue. It's certainly cool to opt
out, but then the likelihood of your chance issue being resolved hinges
almost entirely on someone else somewhere having your exact same issue and
reporting the crash(es). =)
 
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