Sometimes I want crashed programs to stay closed until the next time I open them. Sometimes I don’t want the program to pop open a slew of windows, sometimes I don’t want my browser to slog through re-opening all its tabs, and sometimes I’m just a vindictive prick.
Suffice as to say, when a program crashes I’m only given the choice to restart or check for a solution and restart—there’s no option to let the program stew in its own funk for a while and think about what it did.
I tried Googling for the right setting, but the generic nature of the terms I’m using to search bring up a host of irrelevant sites. (Note that I can toggle the automatic reporting, but not the automatic restarting.)
Is this an easy fix? A registry hack? Any way to add the non-restart option?
Ah, this is one that took me a while to figure out. Just close that window that’s giving you the “Restart or Check for (useless) Solution” without clicking on either of those two buttons. That’ll kill it dead. Stone cold dead.
It’s not completely useless. Once I had it tell me that my crash was due to a video driver problem and that there was an update available that fixed it. I installed the latest video driver and it fixed it. So that was useful.
So out of all of the crashes I have ever had it did help once. Only once. Ever. But it did happen. So it’s not useless, it’s just mostly useless.
What? You’re breaking up! I can’t hear you… did you say cut the blue wire?
One of those in-your-face-the-whole-time solutions. :smack: Funny thing about it too, because it’s the first instinct/alt-F4 when a web pop-up or something tells me I’m in imminent danger unless I click OK.
I too had a singular experience of MS finding a problem (I don’t mind the connection, I just don’t always want to restart). It was shocking to the point where I called everyone over to see. Unfortunately, no one was impressed. It was one of those ‘but guys, you have no idea how rare this is!’ moments.
