Turning off Online Crash Analysis

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Hello :-)

How do I tur off Online Crash Analysis? The problem is that every time a
program goes boom and that error reporting thingy runs, once it's through, it
opens a page on http://oca.microsoft.com that I really don't care to see as
it's of no help and I especially don't like it that it opens in an already
existing page/tab, which can in some cases mess things up for me instead of
opening its own page/tab.

Thanx in advance :-)
 
Hi,

Control Panel/System applet, on the advanced tab near the bottom click the
"error reporting" button and change your settings here.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Cloudchaser the Red Wolf furry"
 
Cloudchaser said:
Hello :-)

How do I tur off Online Crash Analysis? The problem is that every time a
program goes boom and that error reporting thingy runs, once it's through, it
opens a page on http://oca.microsoft.com that I really don't care to see as
it's of no help and I especially don't like it that it opens in an already
existing page/tab, which can in some cases mess things up for me instead of
opening its own page/tab.

Thanx in advance :-)
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Right click My Computer | Properties | Advanced | Error Reporting.
 
Hi,

If the error reporting mechanism is enabled, and there is a potential that
an article or hotfix may resolve the issue, then the OCA page will be
invoked. This is a hard coded part of the design of the error reporting
mechanism. Your choices are to leave it enabled or disable it.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Cloudchaser the Red Wolf furry"
 
Any idea why Microshaft does that, why they don't at least make it an option?
Surely they know that nobody likes for any pseudo feature (a.k.a. bug) they
don't want to be forced on 'em whether they want it or not.
 
Any idea why Microshaft does that, why they don't at least make it an option?
Surely they know that nobody likes for any pseudo feature (a.k.a. bug) they
don't want to be forced on 'em whether they want it or not.
 
Well, it's not forced. You simply turn it off if you don't want it. If it's
one particular program, then disable error reporting for programs, or remove
it from the list. The design behind the tool is two-fold. One is what you
are experiencing, that the end user be given any information that may
potentially fix the problem they are having. The other is for Microsoft to
gather information about what problems end users are most frequently having.
This information has two purposes, one is to concentrate their efforts on
resolving whatever issues the majority have (and according to one source,
the #1 problem is still device drivers), and the second is to red flag any
exploits (if a new virus targets a specific vulnerability and infects
thousands of users suddenly, there will be a noticeable spike).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Cloudchaser the Red Wolf furry"
 

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