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When a program crashes in Windows, by default a message box appears asking if you would like to report the problem to Microsoft. 99.9% of PC users never do and never will which therefore makes this feature unnecessary and time consuming. ‘Problem Reporting’ can be disabled in a few simple steps:

  1. Go to the Start menu > Control Panel
  2. Click System and Maintenance

Most Vista users tend not to notice the sidebar that lurks on their desktop 24/7, but this is a huge mistake. For the sake of a few ‘Gadgets’, the Sidebar uses way too much system memory. Just like User Account Control, the Sidebar is yet another pointless and power hogging application thrown into Vista.

One of the pointless 'Gadgets'