How to: Disable Error Reporting on Windows XP

Error reporting is when your system attempts to connect to Microsofts website to send a report of the problem you are experiencing in hopes to help fix it by documenting it. You may have systems where you want to turn off this functionality for reasons of annoyance or functionality. This video shows you step by step how to turn off this feature.

Many folks I meet who use XP or 2003 constantly tell me how annoying it is to see that error reporting dialog box spring up when their Windows system seemed to be having problems. It is actually very easy to remove from view completely, never to be seen again. You can also re-enable it very quickly if you do want to use it. This article covers error reporting, how to disable it, modify it or re-enable it.

Error Reporting is easy to enable or disable. It can be found by going to your System Properties. This can be found by going to your System applet in the Control panel. This will open your System Properties as well. You want to view the Advanced tab.

Note:
Microsoft stands firmly behind their privacy policy that any information sent using this tool is anonymous and private. Disabling of this tool should be for the reason to remove it from view if you do not want to be bothered with it. This is not a security tweak.

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[pentogram23]

it does not work..I tried it.....I chat to my brother in yahoo ..he lives in UK and recently it shows this error message from microsoft I cannot even get past a room now it stops me dead...anything else I can try..I use internet explorer if that meansanything to this... please help.

[BennyTheReaper1]

Thank u

[clintonearlwalker]

I might have this one. My provider just switched from McAfee to Norton. I've already found out Norton won't allow system restore to operate cuz it changes the Norton files. If u disable Tamper Protection in Norton system restore will work, I tried it and it works for me.

I now get dumpep.exe error now when I have a windows error and it won't sent to microsoft. My guess is that this is caused by Norton. I have XP, internet explorer 7 and Norton. Apparently Norton sux.