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How can I suppress boot Error Messages?
John Savill
March 4, 1999
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A. If you are performing development or know of a problem you maydecide you wish to suppress any of the error pop-ups that are displayed whenthere is a problem. An example would be a driver that can't be loaded or someother system component that is not acting correctly.
The pop-ups can be generated from either of the two main start-up phases,and a separate registry key needs to be set for each stage.
Errors that are displayed as a result of the boot phase can be disabled asfollows:
Start the registry editor (regedit.exe)
Move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsNTCurrentVersionWindows
From the edit menu select New - DWORD value and enter a name ofNoPopUpsOnBoot and press Enter
Double click the new value and set to 1 to suppress boot errors. Click OK
Close the registry editor and the change will take effect at the nextreboot
To suppress error messages that are displayed as part of the post-bootstart-up phase which includes most device driver messages perform thefollowing:
Start the registry editor (regedit.exe)
Move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsNTCurrentVersionWindows
From the edit menu select New - DWORD value and enter a name of ErrorModeand press Enter
Double click the new value and set to 1 to display only application errorsor 2 to suppress all error dialogs. Click OK
Close the registry editor and the change will take effect at the nextreboot
Instead of a blanket ban on all error msgs, you may prefer to marksome services as "optional" and not to generate an error if theydon't start correctly. This can be accomplished by setting HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesErrorControlto 0. For more information see:
Q. When I disconnect one of my devices (e.g. Zip drive) I get errors when I boot NT, how can I stop them?
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