Windows xp disable automatic restart system failure registry

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Share More sharing options Followers 0. Recommended Posts. Posted March 5, edited. Please advise how can I capture error message and troubleshoot restart problem.

Thanks, Bye, Viki. Edited March 8, by viki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Posted March 5, Hi, Just found some update from MS.

I think I am one the victims. Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services. Privacy policy. This article describes how to configure the actions that Windows takes when a system error also referred to as a bug check, system crash, fatal system error, or Stop error occurs.

You can configure the following actions:. You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may prevent you from completing this procedure.

Follow the steps in this section carefully. Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Before you modify it, back up the registry for restoration in case problems occur. The options are available in the Startup and Recovery dialog box.

You can also use the following methods:. To modify the option on your local computer, use the command line utility Wmic. Follow these steps to view the options in Startup and Recovery. The registry value and Wmic commands are also listed for each option. Select Advanced system settings , select the Advanced tab, and select Settings in the Startup and Recovery area.

Select the check boxes for the actions that you want Windows to perform when a system error occurs. PM me on that you could win the Dani boobie prize at the end of the year. Possibly you can change the setting from the recovery console? To disable it you go: start-control panel toggle into classic mode - system-advanced hit the advanced tab. Read the post! I have not tried this with other OS 3.

BPE will prompt networking?. XPPsp3 let me know how it turns out. If that does not work then I have another trick or two that you can try. If I am wrong then I owe you a rep point.

PM me on that. At least on windows server you can , not sure about xp Ah yes! Thank you everyone for your assistance. Facebook Like. Twitter Tweet. Be a part of the DaniWeb community. Sign Up — It's Free! Reply to this Topic. But for some reason, the failure did not generate the memory dump or minidump files, although those options were turned on in the CrashControl settings. Actually, that is one variation on it. I noticed that every time I rebooted the second and fifth values changed slightly.

It seemed reasonable that if it was a driver issue - versus a hardware issue - that the values would stay the same. I was about to tell the client to take it to a repair shop that could test the hardware, when I decided to see what would happen if I removed the second 4Gb of memory. The system booted fine and installation continued. I could be wrong, but it seems as thought something has happened hardware-wise that is causing problems addressing the memory above 4Gb.

Fortunately the laptop runs just fine with 4Gb of memory, and since the client only uses it for web browsing, word-processing, and other similar uses that don't require a lot of memory, I think she's really not going to notice the difference. DMP file. If those could be made available online, it can be checked in the debugger to see what could be causing the error. DMP files but they weren't there. Checked every time. As for Hiren's, there are other similar tools I could have used but I had Hiren's handy.

I tried hitting F8 at boot to get the menu that would allow me to turn Auto Reboot off, but it never worked. All this is a bit irrelevant, I have turned the laptop back to the client running with 4Gb as she needed it to continue her classwork. All is working fine. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro?