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Article #55Re: Windows Reliability Monitor - Visualize Event Log Errors
From: Allen Drake
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:01
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:01
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On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:52:02 -0600, Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> wrote: >On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:10:43 -0500, Allen Drake <ALDrake@Spamex.com> >wrote: > >> What exactly happens to a report when it is sent? Does anyone even >>know? Does MS actually deal with millions of reports? > >College interns! j/k > >>Example: >> >>Source >>Windows Memory Diagnostic >> >>Summary >>Memory test results reported >> >>Date >>?8/?20/?2011 7:55 AM >> >>Status >>Report sent >> >>Description >>The results of running the Windows Memory Diagnostic were submitted to >>Microsoft for analysis and product improvement >> >>Problem signature >>Problem Event Name: MemDiagV1 >>Range of memory size: 4097 >>Launch type: BootManager >>Schedule type: Immediate >>Completion type: Pass >>Test type: Standard >>Failed tests: 0 >>Number of bad pages: 0 >>Test duration in seconds: 1020 >>OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1 >>Locale ID: 1033 >> >>Extra information about the problem >>Bucket ID: 45315422 > >It's highly doubtful that a human ever sees the individual reports. >Instead, I'd bet they're dumped into a database. From there, specific >reports can be generated, targeted to specific items and with colorful >charts and graphs, from the hundreds of thousands of submitted >reports. In that way, they're able to see anomalies and trends across >the wider user base. > >Another way to look at it is to consider an individual report almost >meaningless, but when put together with a million others, there's some >real gold to be mined. An interesting thought. I would rather like to think of it as an experiment. Like shooting at the moon to see what bounces back while at the same time planning a trip to mars. Windows 8 anyone?
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