Microsoft should pay us for any feedback we give. I was a devoted Windows (l)user until Microsoft decided to trojan Windows XP with the Windows Genuine Advantage Notification “update”. Activation was enough to annoy me but WGAN phoning home every time I accessed Control Panel was one step too far… I totally agree with disabling/removing error reporting, MS deserves nothing from us end users.

Also, drivers have not improved since Windows 2000 in terms of graphics - phoronix confirms that Windows Vista NVIDIA driver performance is below that of other OSes in most situations. Plus Microsoft still ships drivers without any accelerated OpenGL support out-of-the-box, which results in a lot of error reports (did for me!).

I have converted over to GNU/Linux since Windows 2000 will be unsupported soon and forcing XP updates into place on a W2K system is too much hard work.

P.S. Error reporting service is only for non-OS components if I recall, so error reports on Windows OS components aren’t affected