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[Humpty]

May come in handy for some of us that look after family and friend's computers.

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Panic Button is a simple program that sits in a user's system tray innocuously, doing nothing.

Where it becomes useful is at the moment where the computer displays an error message that is bewildering to the user.

Rather than clicking OK or Cancel on the error and continuing on until they run into more trouble then calling you up and saying "I got some kind of error, I'm not sure what it said. Was it important?", the user simply clicks the Panic Button in the system tray while the error message is on the screen.

It takes a screenshot of the error message, then offers the user a simple dialog to type out a brief description of what they were trying to do, and what problem they might be experiencing.

When the user clicks Send, the screenshot and message get automatically emailed to a pre-determined email address.

Panic Button link

[TheFiresInTheSky]

whats a good free smtp email account that i can sign up for that also forwards emails?

[rridgely]

This is a pretty cool idea.
Too bad the people that always ask me for help either have busted hardware or tons of spyware/adware.

[res45]

rridgely, on Oct 7 2006, 09:25 PM, said:

This is a pretty cool idea.
Too bad the people that always ask me for help either have busted hardware or tons of spyware/adware.

Or running Windows ME

[rridgely]

res45, on Oct 7 2006, 11:39 PM, said:

Or running Windows ME

Not so much an issue for me usually they running xp or 98. Windows ME is actually not that bad if you get rid of system restore(doesn't work anyway) and do a few other things. Don't get me wrong its not great either.