IT Tip: How to Disable the Windows Event Tracker
Posted on May 7, 2009 in Technology
Have you ever been annoyed by the Windows Shutdown Event Tracker? I know I have been and it is one of the first things I disable during a server build. Most people I have spoken to will type in a random set of characters just to bypass this prompt. Here is how you disable it so you don’t have to put up with it in the first place.
- Click on Start-Run.
- Once the Run prompt has open, type in “gpedit.msc” and click OK.
- In the Group Policy Editor, expand the following branches: Computer Configuration – Administrative Templates.
- Click on the System Folder in the tree.
- Browse through the parameters on the right side for “Display Shutdown Event Tracker”. When you have found it, double click to open it.
- Set the value to “Disabled”.
- Click Apply and watch the Windows Event tracker annoy you for the last time!
I have read this method on a number of sites. I am using Server 2003 64-bit and when I go to the Administrative Template folder, I only have Windows Components, nothing more. I have checked virtually every setting there, and cannot discover any setting related to this.
I am trying to make it so that in a power failure, this annoying box does not come up, preventing the automatic startup of my server! Help!
Also, I tried this:
To configure registry settings for the Shutdown Event Tracker,
1. Click Start, Run, enter regedit, and click OK.
2. The Registry Editor console opens.
3. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, Software, Microsoft, Windows, CurrentVersion, and then Reliability.
4. Select ShutdownReasonUI. If ShutdownReasonUI does not exist, create a DWORD value, and then name it ShutdownReasonUI.
5. Enter a data value of 1 in the Value data box to enable the Shutdown Event Tracker, or enter a data value of 0 in the Value data to disable the Shutdown Event Tracker.
6. Click OK.
7. Close the Registry Editor console.
8. Restart the computer.
That did not work either