When a program crashes under Windows XP, a dialog box may ask you to send an error report to Microsoft Does sending a report do any good? More important, do error reports contain private information about you?
The story - quite interesting. I didn't know, for instance, that the error reports are used by other software vendors besides Microsoft.
The report is on pcmag here:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1435181,00.asp
(I warn that there are bloody popups sometimes at this site, but so many good sites seem to use them, I might as well refer to them when there is something that may be of interest to others.)
Windows XP Error Reports
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