Recurring Application Error after disabling Windows Error Reporting service

Question

I am running Windows 8.1 - 64 bit version.

I followed the instructions listed here http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/disable-error-reporting-windows to disable Windows Error Reporting Service through the Action Center as it was slowing down my system every time Windows found something wrong.

I have even made sure that the Error Reporting Svc was disabled in Services and set to 1 (disabled) in the registry.

Yet quite often I still get an App Error message which slows my computer down anyways and even shows up in task manager as Windows Error Reporting Service. How is this still running?

The image I provided shows the error message I get and proof of WER service being shut down in the Action Center, Services and the Registry:

Answer 1

According to this Microsoft blog post, stopping the service and disabling reports no longer remove the error dialog. If you want to get rid of that too, you need to navigate to this Registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting

There is a DontShowUI entry in there; setting it to 1 removes the pop-up. Note that this is a per-user, not per-machine, setting (hence HKEY_CURRENT_USER).

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There's also a different setting that might be more relevant to these "hard errors." According to this KB article, set ErrorMode in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows to 2 if you want to remove all hard error dialogs. That setting is per-machine, and so affects all users.