"Program Stopped Working" Message

zeke1312 · 05-08-2008, 11:57 AM

Windows Vista SP1. On occasion when closing a program, a message "Program stopped working. Windows will notify you if a solution is available" is displayed. I close the message display and continue to use my PC without problem. I've observed that most if not all of these incidents occur when I have multiple programs running and more than one window open. When closing one or more windows display, (I'm not sure what you call the displays) I will find the message/display in question and typically it is the last message displayed. Hope I made sense of this! Can you advise. I have completed a full system restore for another reason. The system runs OK otherwise.

g25racer · 05-08-2008, 12:29 PM

I had this problem too! You can disable the the service! Go to run and type services.msc and hit enter. Then go down to "Windows error reporting" and then right click and hit "properties" and change the "startup type" from automatic to DISABLE. Then hit apply and ok. Then the message window wont show up anymore!

zeke1312 · 05-08-2008, 12:38 PM

Thanks!

g25racer · 05-08-2008, 04:10 PM

Yup! That pop-up was annoying me too! LOL

05-08-2008, 11:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
zeke1312 New Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 20	"Program Stopped Working" Message Windows Vista SP1. On occasion when closing a program, a message "Program stopped working. Windows will notify you if a solution is available" is displayed. I close the message display and continue to use my PC without problem. I've observed that most if not all of these incidents occur when I have multiple programs running and more than one window open. When closing one or more windows display, (I'm not sure what you call the displays) I will find the message/display in question and typically it is the last message displayed. Hope I made sense of this! Can you advise. I have completed a full system restore for another reason. The system runs OK otherwise.

05-08-2008, 12:29 PM	#2 (permalink)
g25racer Diamond Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,496	I had this problem too! You can disable the the service! Go to run and type services.msc and hit enter. Then go down to "Windows error reporting" and then right click and hit "properties" and change the "startup type" from automatic to DISABLE. Then hit apply and ok. Then the message window wont show up anymore! __________________ CPU - AMD Athlon 64x2 5200+ @ 2.6ghz Ram - 2GB Stock clock HD - 320gb seagate & Samsung 750gb 32mb cache GPU - XFX 8600GT XXX Zalman @ 680 or 700mhz PSU - Ultra X-finity 600watt OS - Vista Home Premium(32) & XP Pro and Vista Audio - JVC 460watts Control - Logitech G25 Wheel & Logitech Rumblepad 2 Games - GTR2 and LFS -- Race Sim's for Life --

05-08-2008, 04:10 PM	#4 (permalink)
g25racer Diamond Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,496	Yup! That pop-up was annoying me too! LOL __________________ CPU - AMD Athlon 64x2 5200+ @ 2.6ghz Ram - 2GB Stock clock HD - 320gb seagate & Samsung 750gb 32mb cache GPU - XFX 8600GT XXX Zalman @ 680 or 700mhz PSU - Ultra X-finity 600watt OS - Vista Home Premium(32) & XP Pro and Vista Audio - JVC 460watts Control - Logitech G25 Wheel & Logitech Rumblepad 2 Games - GTR2 and LFS -- Race Sim's for Life --

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05-08-2008, 12:38 PM	#3 (permalink)
zeke1312 New Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 20	Thanks!