Windows 10: Your PC Ran Into a Problem... QR code to Fix

Hi,
You would have thought that MS understood about Digital Convergence (that old thing from the 1990s).
What would be so handy is to use your Mobile to scan in the QR code of what went wrong and

open up the aka.ms page for the fix.
That is the QR code is a Call to Action.

If it was really smart the QR code would include the CPU id/version, the OS build that had the problem.
If a person had a MS account then they could logon one, and this would like to when their PC eventually worked again and there is an option for the dump to be captured.

Thanks in advance for adding this tiny feature to your next release of Win10.

Doug (UK)

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QR Code Question

I'm a little late to this but QR codes are static. They're like barcodes but contain a lot more binary. If you don't get the same values from the same QR code, either the code itself has degraded (e.g. smidges making areas that should be white a shade of dark gray or black) or the software used to process it isn't working. Here's a basic breakdown of what each part of the QR code is about:



And if you want to learn more about them, see Wikipedia. The only way a well-formed QR code could point to a porn site is if you use an URL-shortening service (e.g. bit.ly) and that URL it generated gets repurposed to point to a porn site. To avoid that problem, simply don't use an URL-shortening service.

 

QR Code Question

I'm working on completely rebranding the company I work for. Everything from the website, trucks, business cards to the shipping boxes. I am basically creating a new brand from the ground up.

I've done this before but I have never used a QR code. My question is I see a lot of QR code generators online that are free. However when I type in the same exact web address I notice the pattern in the code is different from site to site and day to day but, the code I generated last week seems to work fine.

Do QR codes expire and is there a way to pay for one so that a year from now the QR codes on the sides of our trucks don't lead people to some strange porn site or something?

 

QR Code Question

OK, that will look pretty cool.