Windows XP Tips – How to disable Error Reporting

Posted on April 11, 2007 at 9:50 pm

Does Word keep crashing your computer every other day and then have the nerve to ask you to send an error report to Microsoft every single time, which doesn’t seem to help with your problem!? I personally find the Error Report dialog to be a pain and therefore have disabled it. Half the time, it’s not even a Microsoft product that is crashing, so what is microsoft going to be about it? It’s either poorly written software or some other issue like a messed up registry, etc.

Here’s how to turn off the error reporting popup box when a program crashes:

1. Right click on My Computer and go to Properties.

2. Next, on the System Properties dialog, click on the Advanced tab.

3. Click on the Error Reporting button at the bottom right. Choose the Disable error reporting option and make sure “But notify me when critical errors occur“.

This ensures that you’ll be notified if something serious happens, but otherwise the daily crash of IE or Word or whatever app is not going to be bothering you with a useless Send to Microsoft popup!

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5 Responses to “Windows XP Tips – How to disable Error Reporting”

  1. Brant Gurganus said on : September 8th, 2007 at 4:31 am

    Telling how to disable a feature like this is fine as long as done from a balanced perspective. The author does not communicate that Microsoft is less likely to notice the impact of your crash and get information necessary to fix it without the information that this crash reporting sends.


  2. akishore said on : September 8th, 2007 at 8:51 am

    Hi Brant,

    Yes I’d agree that you should really only disable this feature if you’re getting the error reporting dialog all the time and have already submitted it to Microsoft several times. Then you need to figure out whether it’s a software or hardware incompatibility issue.

    Thanks!


  3. Phyllis said on : February 22nd, 2008 at 10:30 am

    Thanks. That was helpful. I went to the Windows site first to try to find a fix for the problem, but nothing seemed to work, so this at least will help me keep my sanity!


  4. Manas Dash said on : April 21st, 2009 at 1:52 am

    Verry borring job for me to stop every time when any error occurs on my pc . Thanks for helping me disable it.


  5. Sandra Ellis said on : September 10th, 2009 at 12:23 pm

    I do not have the advanced tab in windows 98 SE…this error report takes me out of programs and I can’t find any way to disable it…any help would be appreciated. thanks.


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