Preserved Topic: No, I do NOT want to send a bug report

XP users; you know how whenever a program crashes and you end it, a dialog pops up asking if you want to send a bug report to microsoft? Does anyone know of a trick to keep that dialog from appearing? It's just a nuisance to me.

I wish I could tell you... I'm eager to hear the answer to this one as well.

I hate it too.

LoL this may seem funny but, why don't you try sending one of those error reports asking microsoft how to stop those error reports from popping up.



Eheh.

Go to:

Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services

Find Error Reporting Service in the list and double click.

Change the drop-down menu to Disabled.

No specific help but you might want to nose through this (if only to wonder why?):
http://www.scorpioncity.com/mscrash.shtml

Check out the relevant links here - might be some help here:
http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/567/

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Oh here you are:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article03-003

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Here's how to disable this feature, either completely or selectively:


Open System in the Control Panel (or right-click on the My Computer icon and select Properties.
Choose the Advanced tab, and click Error Reporting.
You can disable error reporting entirely here, or enable it selectively for certain programs. Click Ok when you're done.

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[edit: Again krets is to quick on the draw for me ]

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Yaaay! Thanks guys!

now, how about opening a file with no file extension? How to make zis quicker as was in w2k?

Jason

Umm what are you trying to open it with? File extensions (afaik) are necessary for windows to open files with their assciated programs. If you just want to open files with a text editor then right click it and either select "open" or "open with" if open with works then just select the correct program if open then you should get a dialog box which will give you an option to select the program with which to asociate the file.



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

AHhhhhhhhhh.

Thank you!

You can also use this little tool http://www.xp-antispy.de/XPAntiSpy3-English.zip It gives you easy access to disable this and other "nifty" XP-functions
/Dan

{cell 260}
-{ a vibration is a movement that doesn't know which way to go }-

Wow, that's a nifty little tool there... very useful.

MAN. I just had this happen to me 4 times last night in the span of about 1 hr.

Going to change that right now! Thanks!!!!!

Later,
C:\


~Binary is best~

Yay!

Thankyou!

I'be been wanting to get rid fo that for ages.

thx for this lil' program
it helps a lot! =)

my hobby is eating izz pears....hehe*hides* -THE SPACE-

bit: yeah! that's how it's done on w2k, on XP there's no "open with" option, it asks you i you wanna go to the net to figger out what to open it with or choose a prog from a list, you have to tick the radio and hit OK button to move on to the same ol' list of apps (yeah, text editor)

it's just extra irritating steps, XP's full of em

Jason

JK: that is wierd, on XP I get (at least I think I get) the option of opening files with Notepad and a couple other programs. I'll check as soon as I get back to my home copmuter.

[edit] I get the 'open with' option when I right click on a file, and I haven't done any thing special to enable it that I can remember.

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[This message has been edited by Veneficuz (edited 10-18-2002).]