# Questions about disabling features in Windows XP

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-disabling-features-in-windows-xp/154131>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 10, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-disabling-features-in-windows-xp/154131 "2003-02-10T16:56:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-disabling-features-in-windows-xp/154131/1 "2003-02-10T16:56:32Z")

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When I’m playing a VCD in Windows XP, sometimes the video will become unreadable and freeze. When that hapens, I have to manually shut down the video player. After I do that, an error message pops up, asking me if I want to report this error to Microssoft.

Is there any way to disable this error-reporting “feature”?

–  
Justin

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**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-disabling-features-in-windows-xp/154131/2 "2003-02-10T16:58:18Z")

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Control Panel, System, Advanced tab, Error reporting

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**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-disabling-features-in-windows-xp/154131/3 "2003-02-10T17:01:32Z")

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And that, folks, is why I love this place. Two minutes flat. Thank you kindly, **Yoyodyne**!