How to disable error reporting in windows 2000

I take security and my privacy very seriously!!! So are you a MS employee or something? Well, it wouldn't surprise me the least bit that Microsoft would do something like that with all the stories I hear about their customer intrusion in the past trying to muscle people into only Microsoft stuff and nothing else even if it comes at the expense of your privacy!!!! I don't have crashes a lot. The problem just started to happen yesterday. The mouse still worked, but for some reason, the software that gives you customization options just would crash and it would always give me the option to restart.

It really was no big deal. I just upgraded the drivers for it a few days ago and the problem appears to be gone. Well anyways, back on topic. For whatever reason it may be, I don't want that Error reporting dialog box to come up when I have a system or application crash. I just want a dialog box to come up just as it would in Windows if an application or system crash occurs. If Notify Me when critical errors occur box is selected, does that mean it will still give you the option to report them to MS, or does it just mean it will give you the details of the critical error.

But back to my original question, I have all error reporting disabled, and why did a dialog box still pop up with the option to send the error report to MS??? You say they put it there because they really need it?? So, how do I turn it off all together so it will do the same as what Windows did which is not have any choice to report errors to MS? I would leave it though on disabled but notify when error occurs. Feb 19, 2 0 0. We do use the error reporting data to prioritize fixes for products, as do most major vendors.

Your really IMHO doing yourself a disservice by not sending crash data in. I've disabled my error reporting service and it still reports everything.

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Our experts volunteer their time to help other people in the technology industry learn and succeed. User data is saved to the user profile:. The Windows Error Reporting service is a separate Windows service. You can check the status of the service using the PowerShell command:. As you can see, the directory name contains the severity level of an event and the name of the specific EXE file that has crashed.

In all folders, there is a file called Report. Typically, the size of each folder is small, but in some cases a memory dump is generated for a problem process that occupies much space. The screenshot below shows that the size of memory. A couple of such dumps can occupy several gigabytes on the system drive. To free up some disk space quickly, you can manually delete debug and log files generated by the WER service in the following folders:.

The following PowerShell commands will remove all files older than 30 days from the WER directories:.