Tips & Tricks

Error Report Shutoff

Q:
I get this annoying message asking if I want to send an error report to Microsoft. Is there any way to disable it?

A:
Beginning with Windows ME, the brains at Microsoft added a feature that allows you to send a report to the mothership any time an error occurs. Maybe I'm paranoid or read too many conspiracy theories, but I don't want to send anything about my computer to anyone—whether it's Big Brother or Uncle Bill.

Of course I can just choose not to send the report, but I'm trying to save my clicker finger for more important things like deleting gigabytes of spam that slithers through my message rules. Here's what to do...

In the Control Panel, choose "System". Go to the Advanced tab and click "Error Reporting".

In the Error Reporting window, click "Disable error reporting". If you still want to know if an error occurs, then select "But let me know when critical errors occur".

There you go—now you can keep your errors to yourself!

~ David

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