LKBEN10568: Howto disable error reporting for windows

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LKB | Created: 02-04-2020 | Version: 0 | Language: EN | Rating: 0 | Outdated: False | Marked for deletion: False

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Symptom

On errors your windows wants to send microsoft an error reporting document

Cause

This is by design.

Solution

You can disable this behaviour with the following registry key:

hkey_local_machinesoftwaremicrosoftinternet explorermain

create a new dword named "iewatsonenabled" and set the value to 0 (null)

You can also use the control panel -> system -> error reporting.

About the Author

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux in different European countries and different European languages. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform where he is one of the most important contributors and the main developer.

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