Turning off Error Reporting in XP Home?

I’d like to completely turn off all error reporting, event logs and Dr Watson etc in XP Home. The only service that seems related is Event Log, but it appears you can’t stop this one. I just want to kill all overheads that I don’t need.

Thanks.

 

Thanks Steve, but I realise now I’m talking about the wrong thing. It’s not the error reports to Microsoft I was thinking about but Windows own internal monitoring and logging of errors and events. It’s the stuff in Event Viewer that I want to stop being collected. I don’t know if Dr Watson is a part of it or something separate but I want to disable that as well. In fact all overheads that are purely designed to monitor and maintain the health of the operation system.

Obviously System Restore is already gone, as is Windows File Protection.

 

Thanks Steve but that only filters the items displayed in the log windows to help you find what you are looking for.

I’ve been all round the houses on this and can’t find a definite solution. Found a couple of maybes and will experiment with them.

 

I don't think XP-home will allow what you want.

XP-pro offers Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) and from there you can turn off lots of stuff including lots of error reporting but it not only doesn't exist in the home version but you can't take it from pro and get it to work on home.

 

You may be right Newt that I’m on a lost quest, but when I get a bee in my bonnet about something I can almost make it a life’s mission. Unfortunately time’s going to be limited soon but I’ll get back to it later if need be.

I did wonder if gpedit in Pro would allow it but I thought there was little point in spending the time looking. However you just gave me an idea. If I find it in gpedit then I can track registry changes as I make the adjustments and it might just point me in the direction of a reg hack for Home. I’ve already tried searching the reg in Home but could not come up with anything.

 

I checked gpedit on mine before I posted and it has a couple of settings that certainly look like they will do what you want.