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Every time a software hangs or crashes in Windows Vista, the system prompts you to use Windows Error Reporting (WER) in order to send information to Microsoft about such a failure. In case you don’t want to use this nagging feature, here is a simple trick on how to disable it.

1. Click Start.
2. Click Run… and type gpedit.msc
3. Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Error Reporting.
4. Double click on Disable Windows Error Reporting.
5. Done

This trick doesn’t work on Windows Vista Home and Premium, since they don’t have the command: gpedit.msc. To disable the WER option on these Windows versions, just follow the following trick:

1. Click Start.
2. Type Problem Reports in the Search field and press Enter.
3. Click Change Settings.
4. Click Advanced Settings.
5. Click Off under Advanced Settings for problem reporting.