This post is part of the 17 Tips Series on How to Make Windows Run Faster.
Error reporting is a feature used by Microsoft to collect data regarding actual errors faced by users on Windows. They claim that they use it to make Windows a better OS. The users can also access the error logs to find exactly what went wrong. This may be right, but I have found many users who find error reporting feature to be annoying. Besides this the error log is too GEEK to be easily understood by a common Windows users.
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And most importantly, error reporting is a something which works against your efforts to make Windows run faster.
How to disable Error Reporting to Speedup Windows
A few simple steps…
- Click on Start > Control Panel.
- Click on System.
- Click on the Advanced tab.
- Click on the Error Reporting button.
- Select Disable error Reporting and press OK.
These small tweaks really work a lot towards improving the speed of Windows and make your windows run faster.
See also the other 16 tips to How to Make Windows Run Faster.
October 27th, 2008 at 7:56 am
Irritating enough to disable? I don’t know. I’d like to see how much of a performance burden this has. Pros and Cons of having it enabled.
January 30th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Turn this off if it is annoying, but don’t expeect any performance gains. This will do nothing unless an error actually occurs. Error logging is not related to error reporting and will continue as before.
Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA