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How can Windows XP be configured to send user's error reports to an admin machine on a LAN for screening instead of allowing users to send these reports directly to Microsoft when prompted by the system?
(Disabling error reporting is not an option.)

hmmm . . . answering my own message. . . .
Start | Run | gpedit.msc (local computer policy)
Computer Configuration
Administrative Templates
System
Error Reporting | Report ErrorsUse the setting above to control whether or not errors are reported.
If Report Errors is enabled, the errors may be reported to Microsoft via the Internet or to a corporate file share.
If the 'Do not display links to any Microsoft "more information" web sites' checkbox is checked, links to Microsoft web sites that have more information about the error message will not be displayed.
If the 'Do not collect additional files' checkbox is checked, additional files will not be collected and included in the error reports.
If the 'Do not collect additional machine data' checkbox is checked, additional information about the machine will not be collected and included in the error reports.
If the 'Force queue mode for application errors' checkbox is checked, then
the user will not be offered the chance to report when an error occurs.Instead, the error will be placed in a queue directory, and the next admin to log onto the machine will be given the chance to report the error.
Use the 'Corporate file path' setting to set a UNC path that errors reports will be uploaded to. By entering a path, all error reports will go to the UNC path and Corporate Error Reporting will be enabled.
If an entry is made in the 'Replace instances of the word "Microsoft" with' setting, instances of the word "Microsoft" will be replaced with the contents of the entry in the error notification dialog boxes. This can be used to customize the error reporting dialogs with your company's name.
If Report Errors is disabled, users will not be given the option to report errors. If Display Error Notification is enabled, then users will still get a message indicating that a problem occurred, but will not have the option to report.
If you do not configure this setting, the user will be able to adjust the setting via the control panel, which is set to 'enable reporting' by default on Windows XP Personal and Windows XP Professional and 'disable reporting' on servers.
If this setting is enabled, it will override any settings made via the control panel for error reporting. If this setting is enabled, default values will be used for any error reporting policies that are not configured (even if settings were adjusted via the control panel).
Also, see the "Display Error Notification" setting.
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