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Logging bugs in Vista and why we need them logged

Tim, one of the community leads has a blog that I recommend people to subscribe too.  He has said he has had to give up on Vista as it just fails to work. Susan Bradley then asks of Tim if he has logged a bug, but I also remember a long post by Tim on how hard it was to log bugs and being a beta tester. 

I then did a search of the internet and a few people have asked how to log a Vista bug and the answer appears to be to download a tool and then fill in the details.

One thing to say is that things like 3rd party power management tools often break things, so try NOT loading them.  Also, if your machine BSODs, let it upload the file to MS so we get the dump.  If it BSODs on every boot, try doing a safeboot for it to upload the bugs.  There is a great tool in Vista to upload BSODs and other info and it will auto fire when an admin logs in.

that is it for tonight

ttfn

David

 


Posted Thu, Jun 29 2006 1:24 AM by David Overton

Comments

Tim Long wrote re: Logging bugs in Vista and why we need them logged
on Fri, Jun 30 2006 10:29 AM
I have to admit, on this occasion, I didn't bug it. Mainly because the link was on the Vista desktop which was blue-screening. I got a bit frustrated with it and couldn't really face researching alternatives. Your point's well taken though, and you provide a direct link to the download so I may do something over the weekend. It would be nice if Acer would start talking about Vista and releasing driver updates. OEMs always seem to run scared when there's a new OS on the horizon. In my defence though, I'm enrolled in several other betas and I'm submitting copious amounts of feedback on those, in particular office 2007 because they made it so easy to do and others like SBA (uk version) which has a more formal set of tests to be worked through. Others I'm testing are Monad (windows Power shell), IE7 and Expression Web Designer. But my focus is currently on office and SBA.

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