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How can I disable this annoying-as-hell nanny message box?

I develop software. I am always clobbering applications.

I don't want to see this.

Great question!  I'm anxiously awaiting an answer...

From http://dinpinto.blogspot.com/2005/10/optimizing-windows-xp-to-run-on-850.html:

2)Disable error reporting on program crash
Open REGEDIT
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting.
Edit the following value:
Value Name: DoReport
Value: 0 to disable the error report prompt.

Haven't tried this myself, but other stuff from this guy works.

ooh, nice registry hack. Thanks!

Sadly, my other pet peeve, not being able to kill codewarrior while it is debugging a process, but has become unresponsive is probably nowhere near as easily solved...

Graham - what happens when you try it?  If you get an 'Access is Denied' type message then try enableDebugPrivAndRun on task manager as explained here: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0398/win320398.aspx

I use it a lot when I'm writing Win32 services that can't normally be killed by task manager.  So much so that my default link to taskmgr uses it.

Another thing to try is Process Explorer from SysInternals. That can kill most anything.

That registry hack works as advertised. Thanks o'plenty.

Does the debugger actually work in Code Warrior now?  I had to use Code Warrior the first year of my CS degree and every single time I tried to use the debugger it would completely crash the system.  This happened on every Mac computer in every computer lab on campus, so it was more than just a problem with the machine.  (Although I suppose it is possible that whoever set up all the campus machines configured them improperly.) 

This was about 9-10 years ago though.

Control Panel...System...Advanced...Error Reporting