Policy

Prevent display of the user interface for critical errors

Microsoft Windows

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Prevent display of the user interface for critical errors
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Windows Components > Windows Error Reporting
Supported on
At least Windows Vista

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista

This policy setting prevents the display of the user interface for critical errors. If you enable or do not configure this policy setting, Windows Error Reporting does not display any GUI-based error messages or dialog boxes for critical errors. If you disable this policy setting, Windows Error Reporting displays the GUI-based error messages or dialog boxes for critical errors.

Internal name
WerDoNotShowUI
Policy ID
0b120781e59c
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting
Value name
DontShowUI
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting
Value name
DontShowUI
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.