There have been many posts telling you that error reporting drains your battery. I think this is a myth and that "battery drain" is caused by something completely different (like filesys.exe, for instance).

We all know WM5 is buggy, and that many 3rd party apps have bugs on WM5. That is where Error Reporting comes in. If we keep sending error reports to Microsoft, they will eventually start to see patterns of what is failing and this will certainly lead to some fixes. If you turn off error reporting, you are making it harder for Microsoft to isolate and fix bugs, which means we will all wait longer and longer for good fixes to come out.

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error reports?? do you know where those end up?

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You have a good point, but a program I use will frequently cause the error reporting to come up and the program is unusable until I disable error reporting. Other programs have the same problem, but not as frequently.

 

Granted this is an annoyance, and eventually we should be able to turn off the error reporting, or the number of errors will be so small that it won't make any difference. Right now this is about all we can do to "pitch in" and help MS/Dell get from version 0.5 to 1.0 of WM5.

I ran an ethereal packet capture on the "RAPI" network connection and discovered that these are being sent to watson.microsoft.com. Same place as the Windows XP error reports go.

Check out the new Microsoft WSYP project in dealing with these and other "software errors".

http://msexp.streamnavig.com/msexp/p...lng=en&cou=uk#

OR

http://tinyurl.com/aq4pg

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Yeah, I have seen that before. Pretty funny.

 

Yes.... because error reports have made winxp and office sooooooooo much better

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