[access-uk] Re: C Cleaner.
- From: Douglas Harrison <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:21:07 +0100
Many thanks for taking the trouble to come up with this explanation, George.
Over the years
I have tended to choose "Take no action" for an error unless it occurs several
times within a
short period. In the latter case I would send in the report. That explains why
I have two
different categories of error message.
Early this morning I decided to take "the bull by the horns" and ran the MS
Disk Cleanup,
which removed over 6 gb, followed by CCleaner (with default settings) which got
rid of
another 200 mb.
And as I am replying to this message on the system in question, no damage
appears to have
been done.
I must cleanup more regularly in future.
Douglas
On 19 Aug 2008 at 10:57, George Bell wrote:
> Hi Douglas, I've been looking around for a simplified
> explanation of Microsoft's error reporting, but seem to be
> hitting a brick wall.
>
> From a user's point of view, errors are generally handled in
> two ways. 1) They happen, and are regarded as "tough luck",
> so you restart the application or re-boot. 2) You allow
> your system to send error reports to Microsoft, who in turn,
> may or may not pass these reports on to participating
> developers with the hope that the reports may identify flaws
> in their software.
>
> I'm fairly well versed in the latter, and have seen how this
> can help greatly in developing improved software. However,
> there are occasions when you may have said "No! Do not send
> info to Microsoft about this error." However, as a safety
> measure, the error report will be "queued", just in case it
> is required later to identify an on-going problem.
>
> On the other hand, the archived ones generally indicate that
> some action has been taken, and that someone has the
> information contained in them. (Although this is not a
> golden rule)
>
> So basically, you can generally get rid of the lot unless
> you are having on-going problems.
>
> George.
>
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Douglas Harrison
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