Disable Windows Problem Reporting

ztr3ngth — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:27:40 +0000

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:

Go to the Start menu > Control Panel
Click System and Maintenance
Click Problem Reports and Solutions
On the left hand panel, click Change Settings then Advanced Settings
Under “For my programs, problem reporting is:” select Off
Click OK on both screens then exit the Control Panel

You may also be interested in our article on Disabling Vista’s User Account Control and Disabling Vista’s Sidebar.

Make Windows Startup Faster

ztr3ngth — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:56:34 +0000

Since Windows XP, Microsoft have allowed us to defragment our Windows Startup files. Defragmenting your Startup files basically puts all the files needed to boot your PC up, next to each other. This means your system doesn’t have to search around looking for the files needed to run Windows.

Take not that another fast method of achieving faster windows startup times is to wipe your hard drive clean. You might also want to take time to defragment your hard drive for an extra cut in windows startup times.

1. Click on Start, then Run

2. Type Regedit and click OK

3. Look for “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOpt imizeFunction”

4. Check Enable

5. Right click on the name in step 3, and click Modify

6.Edit the value to “Y to enable” then OK

7. Reboot your PC and see the difference!

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