Showing posts with label Windows 7. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows 7. Show all posts

Friday, April 22, 2011

Turn off Windows 7 Error Reporting

Get a lot of these?
Heres how to disable it in Windows 7

Start > Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Action Center > Change Action Center settings > Problem reporting Settings:

For the domain administrators out there, to disable via GPO try:

Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Windows Error Reporting

Disable Windows Error Reporting:
“If this setting is enabled, Windows Error Reporting will not send any problem information to Microsoft. Additionally, solution information will not be available in the Action Center control panel.”

Make Windows 7 Explorer open My Computer

Right click the explorer icon on the task bar > Right click windows explorer and select properties

Change “%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe” to:

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /root,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

To make all new explorers open My Computer and then anything from there will open in a new explorer window.

or...

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe ::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

To make all new explorers open My Computer and then anything from there will open in the same explorer window.