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04 October 2005

Ask Mecha (potentially dumb WinXP question) For the first time ever (well, in 2 years), my Dell bluescreened for no apparent reason. →[More:]I rebooted and clicked to send the report to the M'soft Online Crash Analysis, and despite my cable connection, it said I need a connection to th' interweb to send. How can I try to send that stupid error report again?

post by: moonbird at: 02:50 | 1 comment

I wouldn't worry about it. It's somewhat akin to mailing back the grains of sand that got stuck to your beach towel.

All kidding aside, the data is only used in a very aggregate form. It doesn't really send enough data to be useful for a non-recurring error like the one you experienced.

If it becomes a consistant problem, then it might be useful to someone at Microsoft, assuming someone actually parses that data.

posted by addyct 04 October | 04:11

← Harsh, but makes you think. || * lights campfire * →

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