Disable the message “Windows has detected a hard drive problem. Disable the message "Windows has encountered a hard drive problem. Windows 7 Error Reporting"

Greetings, dear curious readers! Today we will find out how to disable the message "Windows has encountered a problem. hard disk". Usually, such a curse really indicates a problem with your hard drive. In my case, it appeared after Windows installations on the HDD with a certain number of bad blocks and an unacceptably large value of attribute 5 (Reallocated Sectors Count) in SMART. We will analyze separately how to check the hard disk for errors, but now we will simply turn off this window so that it does not interfere with the work with its sudden appearances. Nevertheless, as soon as the opportunity arises, I recommend replacing the hard drive with a new one.

Let's go to the Group Policy Editor. To do this, press Win + R and write: gpedit.msc.

The Local Group Policy Editor will open. Go to the address: Computer configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System-> Diagnostics -> Disk diagnostics.

There we will find two parameters, which we will deal with. Double click on the first parameter and in the next window set the value to Disable. Click OK.

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If you don't want error information operating system and installed programs saved on your computer and sent to Microsoft, you can configure the settings for saving and sending Windows 7 error reports.

There are two ways to configure settings for submitting bug reports and finding solutions to problems:

Important: After changing the error reporting settings, you will not be able to receive troubleshooting information in the Windows 7 Support Center. Change these settings only if you know exactly why you need it.

Configuring Error Reporting Using Windows 7 Support Center

1. Open Control Panel> Support Center.

2. Click Service> Parameters.

3. To change the error reporting settings for your account, choose one of the following options:

Automatically check for solutions (recommended)- every time an error occurs, Windows 7 will generate a full report of a critical event. Then, if you have an Internet connection, this report will be automatically sent to Microsoft. If a solution to this problem is available in the Microsoft database, a notification about this will appear in the Support Center;

Automatically check for new solutions and, if necessary, send additional report data - in practice, this setting does not differ from the previous one;

Whenever a problem occurs, display a prompt before checking for solutions- when an error occurs, Windows 7 will generate a critical event report. A dialog box will then appear prompting you to submit a problem report to Microsoft. If you agree and if you have an Internet connection, the report will be sent and if a solution is found, you will receive a notification in the Support Center. If you refuse to send the report, then information about the error will be saved on the computer, but will not be sent to Microsoft, and you will have to look for a solution to the problem yourself;

Don't check for new solutions (not recommended)- when an error occurs, Windows 7 will generate a critical event report and save it on the computer. No information will be sent to Microsoft.

To turn off error reporting for specific programs, click Select programs to exclude from the report.

To configure error reporting for all computer users, log in to Windows 7 as an administrator, open Control Panel> Help Center> Maintenance> Settings and press Change report settings for all users.

Configuring Error Reporting Using Local Group Policy Editor

Since the Local Group Policy Editor is not available in all, this method can only be applied in Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, and Windows 7 Enterprise.

Important: Settings configured in Local Group Policy Editor take precedence over settings configured in Action Center.

1. Log in to Windows 7 as an administrator.

2. Open the Start menu, type in the search bar and press Enter.

3. In the left menu of the Local Group Policy Editor, open: Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Error Reporting.

4. Do one or more of the following:

To prevent additional error data from being sent to Microsoft, double-click Do not send additional data, select Turn on and press OK... When enabled, any requests from Microsoft for additional data in response to events in Windows error reporting will be automatically rejected without notifying the user.

To turn off error reporting, double-click Disable Windows Error Reporting, select Turn on and press OK... If this parameter is enabled, then if errors are detected, Windows 7 will not send information about them to Microsoft. However, you will not be able to receive information about solutions to problems through the Support Center.

To turn off error reporting, double-click Disable logging, select Turn on and press OK... When enabled, Windows Error Reporting events will not be logged to the System Event Log.

Monitoring and diagnostics

Error reporting is enabled by default in XP, Vista, and Windows 7. When an error occurs in an application, a detailed description of the error appears and you are prompted to send this information to Microsoft. This information is received from millions of PCs around the world and helps in creating patches and service packs. In some cases, self-parsing of information about the error helps in solving the problem. However, in some cases this behavior of the system is not acceptable and you would like to disable this functionality. In this article, we will look at methods for disabling error reporting on all systems.

Windows 7

Open the start menu and enter in the search bar problem reporting settings, or go to Action Center -> Change Action Center Settings -> Problem Reporting Settings. If you used the search method, select “Choose how to report problems”:

Then you can easily select the option you want from the list.

Disable error reporting in Windows 7 with Group Policy

Note: This method is not available for home versions of Windows 7.

Click Start and enter gpedit.msc in the search bar and press Enter.

The Local Group Policy Editor will open. Next, you need to go to the User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Error Reporting section and go to the policy Disable Windows Error Reporting.

Change the policy state from Not Configured to Enabled, then click Apply and Ok and exit the Group Policy Editor.

Disable error reporting in Vista

To disable error reporting in Vista, click on Start and open the Control Panel.

Switch the control panel to classic display mode and click on Problem Reports and Solutions.

As you can see we are offered two options. If you choose Ask me to check if a problem occurs, error reporting will be enabled and you will be prompted to choose whether to send information to Microsoft or not. If you choose Check for solutions automatically (recommended) all data will be sent to Microsoft automatically. Both options are not suitable for us, since we want to completely disable this functionality, so click on the link Advanced Settings.

In the window that appears in the section For my programs, problem reporting is… select Off and then click Ok.

As you can see now, the previous options are not available for editing.

Click Close on the message informing us that error reporting has been disabled.

Disable error reporting in XP

To disable error reporting in XP, right-click on the " My computer"and select Properties... In the window that opens, go to the tab Additionally and press the button Error reporting.