Everything seems to be going well. You have a couple of programs open, and happily going thru your normal computing tasks. After a few minutes, you sit back, aghast -- a window suddenly appeared, screaming:

“Application has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Please tell Microsoft about this problem.”

Second place from the Office Assistant, this error reporting "feature" is one of the foulest things known to humankind. It's beyond me how Microsoft expects anyone to happily click Send Error Report, and believe that they will make Windows a better place.

"But it only appears when a program crashes!" you can almost hear Microsoft explain. Golly wow. And that really never happens.

To those who have also reached the limits of their patience, here is a corking way to disable error reporting:

1. Open your Control Panel.
   
2. Select System (doubleclick).
   
   
   
   
   
3. The System Properties window will appear. Select the Advanced tab.
4. Click the Error Reporting button.
   
   
   
   
   
5. Select Disable Error Reporting. Optionally, you can also check But notify me when Critical Errors Occur.
   
   
   
   
   

Adios, error reports!

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Jasper Jugan said:

It's good to be notified always when critical errors occur

April 10, 2006

jay said:

Notification, yes. Send error report, NO! But I also disabled notification in my PC.

April 12, 2006

Ivy said:

Nice tip thanks.

May 15, 2006

Raymond said:

nakatulong po

May 17, 2006

agripa said:

Thanks! This helped!

December 29, 2006

Jackie said:

I disabled error reporting and am still having the same problem. I open my pictures and view maybe 1 or 2 folders then I get an error report. After disabling it this is what happens: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. If you were in the middle of something, the information you were working on might be lost. (well duh! I don't have much choice but to close it) I am hating windows explorer right now. Please help.

November 09, 2008

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