Windows Error Reporting CPU usage 14%

Flashie · January 20, 2016

Im a gamer, so i often tend to play a tonne of games for the majority of the time im on the PC.

Recently ive noticed that after a game of something like Garry's Mod, I get my processes showing 15-16% CPU usage, and 14% of that being Windows Error Reporting

How do i disable this? Its really annoying and i did not sign up for it. I made sure to go through every option i was given when installing and i declined all those kind of things, such as error reporting.

Im on Windows 10 64 bit Professional, the CPU is a i7-4790K 4GHz unoverclocked.

Moose347 · January 20, 2016

The only way is to Error Reporting via modifying the Disabled key in the registry.

Open Regedit. Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting

Find the value named "Disabled" or add a new DWORD value with this name if it doesn't exist. The default value of this key is 0. Double click it to edit, change the value to 1 and save.

This disables the automatic appearance of the dialogue where Windows is searching online to try to find a solution. You are instead shown a dialogue stating that the application has crashed, giving you the option to Debug. However, unlike previous versions of Windows, no error code is provided in this dialogue. The specifics of the error must be accessed through:

Under the tab "Maintenance", you can click "View reliability history", which will show a list of all app crashes. You can then click "View technical details" beside each crash to get more detailed information, such as a the error code(s) thrown from the application on crash.