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by colejohnson66 1950 days ago
IIRC, the “checking for a solution to the problem” dialogs were added because they (Microsoft) would submit an actual bug report to the developers, and if they offered a solution, Microsoft’s servers would respond with it. I’ve never seen it work, but IIRC, they added it back in the Windows 95 days (when there was a lot less software to deal with).
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That was a Vista thing, definitely not 95. I have seen it working once, but I don't remember what the program was.
That was Vista? Wow. I was way off...
They really need to get rid of this.