Prevent dumprep from running
Say you have a rogue/frozen program and you go to the Task Manager and click on End Process.
You know how sometimes it then takes ages to take effect?
And then it asks if you want to send an error report to microsoft?
(And of course you always say 'No')
Well all that time is spent creating the report via the dumprep.exe program. And if it's something like IntelliJ that's crashed, the dumprep process size itself balloons out to an equivalent memory size.
This is another case where I finally got annoyed by this one too many times.
So I did a search. Turns out you can turn it off very simply.
Control Panel->System->Advanced tab->Error Reporting->Disable error reporting.
Yay!
You know how sometimes it then takes ages to take effect?
And then it asks if you want to send an error report to microsoft?
(And of course you always say 'No')
Well all that time is spent creating the report via the dumprep.exe program. And if it's something like IntelliJ that's crashed, the dumprep process size itself balloons out to an equivalent memory size.
This is another case where I finally got annoyed by this one too many times.
So I did a search. Turns out you can turn it off very simply.
Control Panel->System->Advanced tab->Error Reporting->Disable error reporting.
Yay!


9 Comments:
You suck Wheaton!...oh sorry...wrong blog.
By
Myrddin, at November 02, 2005 1:51 PM
Good tip. Thanks!
By
Anonymous, at November 18, 2005 6:59 PM
You're a God...
Thx
By
Anonymous, at June 28, 2006 11:50 AM
Thanks - that was useful
By
Anonymous, at June 29, 2006 3:23 PM
Thank you, thank you, thank you:-) I just want to say thank you
Joy
By
Anonymous, at July 22, 2006 7:05 PM
Thank you for the tip!
By
Anonymous, at August 05, 2006 12:12 PM
Thanks for the advice. This darn thing is a real pain. Now I have disabled it!!
By
Anonymous, at January 31, 2007 5:41 AM
nice work, made my day, leave this link up forever bro
By
Anonymous, at January 31, 2007 1:24 PM
Thank you!!!
By
Jaime, at October 13, 2009 7:41 AM
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