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" Avernar 18 hours ago

Yes it does! Showing "no telemetry available" is exactly what it should do. Crashing = unreliable. Reporting an error condition = reliable.

Immediately? Took them 5 minutes to reboot the computer. The scan of the folder would take seconds let alone minutes. Pinpointing the problem is secondary. Not killing the patient is primary."

Well-put. Far back as Burroughs B5000, the best way to handle erroneous software or I/O was to freeze it, notify the administrator/user of the problem, and give them sensible options for how to proceed. They might restart the I/O, restart the app, modify erroneous data to proceed (rare here), and so on. Crash and reboot is a Windows 95/NT strategy where incompetence dominated. Today's Windows OS and tooling can do much better with little effort by developers.