Windows send error report - you ever use?

[MaxPower]

I kept having probs when i que up clips of movies in Windows Media Player as soon as a clip is finished it crashes on the next clip - restarts laptop each time with a blue screen that lasts half a sec which has a load of stats - i thought it was WMP so i tried uninstalling it, but you cannae uninstall WMP in XP its built in! So i thought i'd update it and install some more codecs but still had the same problems, even updated Direct X but no luck, finally when i rebooted, Windows error alert box came up, which i usually just ignore but this time i was glad to see it as i had run out of ideas and went ahead to report the problem - it said that me graphics card drivers was the cause of it, and suggested i update them - which i did, - i was sceptical that it would fix the prob - but it did - the crashes has since vanished now.

So if you have any probs, and tried everything you can - last resort would be MS report.

[Valken]

You can uninstall media player totally or you can look for the registry edit that disables those previews...

A quick google should pull up the results you need.

Also, if you have the XVid codec installed it's been reported to cause that error with previews. I got it a few times trying to preview an XVid encoded AVI a few times.

[Ciaran]

I use it whenever I get a suspicious crash, the first time I did it I was plesantly suprised when it told me what file was causing it and probable fixes.

[Nic]

You can uninstall media player totally

You can't. On XP its impossible to remove Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player.

No go area that.

Sorry.