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Report Errors

Requirements: At least Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Location: Computer Configuration\System\Error Reporting\


Description:
Use this setting to control whether or not errors are reported.

If Report Errors is enabled, the errors may be reported to Microsoft via the Internet or to a corporate file share.\nIf the 'Do not display links to any Microsoft "more information" web sites' checkbox is checked, links to Microsoft web sites that have more information about the error message will not be displayed.\nIf the 'Do not collect additional files' checkbox is checked, additional files will not be collected and included in the error reports.\nIf the 'Do not collect additional machine data' checkbox is checked, additional information about the machine will not be collected and included in the error reports.\nIf the 'Force queue mode for application errors' checkbox is checked, then the user will not be offered the chance to report when an error occurs. Instead, the error will be placed in a queue directory, and the next admin to log onto the machine will be given the chance to report the error.\nUse the 'Corporate file path' setting to set a UNC path that errors reports will be uploaded to. By entering a path, all error reports will go to the UNC path and Corporate Error Reporting will be enabled.\nIf an entry is made in the 'Replace instances of the word "Microsoft" with' setting, instances of the word "Microsoft" will be replaced with the contents of the entry in the error notification dialog boxes. This can be used to customize the error reporting dialogs with your company's name.

If Report Errors is disabled, users will not be given the option to report errors. If Display Error Notification is enabled, then users will still get a message indicating that a problem occurred, but will not have the option to report.

If you do not configure this setting, the user will be able to adjust the setting via the control panel, which is set to 'enable reporting' by default on Windows XP Personal and Windows XP Professional and 'disable reporting' on servers.

If this setting is enabled, it will override any settings made via the control panel for error reporting. If this setting is enabled, default values will be used for any error reporting policies that are not configured (even if settings were adjusted via the control panel).

Also, see the "Display Error Notification" setting.

ADM File: system.adm