I’m sure you must have seen these dialogs in Windows Vista when a software crashes or if it doesn’t respond,

Windows Vista has this built-in Windows Error Reporting (WER) mechanism with which Windows would be able to communicate to Microsoft an occurrence of a software crash and the many factors that lead to it.

From Microsoft point of view it would be useful for them to gather those details to make sure Windows can deal with it in the future (at least!). But from our (users) point of view it is a bit annoying everything something goes wrong with Windows it pops up this dialog. So how we suppress this dialog from popping up? It’s pretty simply. Just follow these steps to disable Windows Error Reporting,

Step-1:

Click on the Start button and type-in “Run” on the Search Box.

Step-2:

On the “Run” dialog type-in “gpedit.msc” and press Enter. “gpedit” is the program name for Windows Group Policy Editor Snap-In.

Step-3:

Click thru the UAC prompt and Windows will popup Local Group Policy Editor dialog. On that dialog, expand these keys “Computer Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Windows Components” on the left to arrive at “Windows Error Reporting” key.

Step-4:

Double click on the “Disable Windows Error Reporting” on the right pane. Windows will popup with the “Disable Windows Error Reporting Properties” dialog. On that dialog, by default either “Not Configured” or “Enabled” might be selected. Make sure to select the “Disabled” option and hit the “OK” button.

That’s all to it. Gone are the days of those annoying Windows Error Reporting popups!

If you are using Windows XP, don’t worry, DemoGeek.com have you covered. Read this article on how to disable error reporting in Windows XP.