Microsoft Error Reports

We're all familiar with them. Those annoying pop-ups from Microsoft telling us our application has become unresponsive. Right after we are done cursing Bill Gates with four letter words that would make a sailor blush, we get another pop-up asking us ever so kindly if we would like to share our troubles with Microsoft. Maybe they can help? "Yea right. Haven't you created enough trouble for me already?" Well I stand converted. Last week I was getting one of those bizarre errors over and over. It was causing my whole system to become unstable. After restoring the system, uninstalling a few recently downloaded applications, and scouring several message boards, I decided to give Microsoft a try. I "sent" the error report. Lo and behold, I was rewarded with a link to a Microsoft page directing me to download a hotfix. After installing the patch, presto, my system returned to normal. The lesson learned is; go ahead and send that error report, what do you have to lose.