How to Get Rid of System and Application Popup Messages
Submitted by: Slobodan Brcin of Belgrade, Serbia, and Montenegro
This article illustrates how the user can suppress system and application error messages from occurring on an embedded system. This is particularly useful when the embedded device is headless and there is no user interface with which to interact to dismiss the error or in cases where the embedded system is meant to be unattended and the system designer does not want users seeing or interacting with such error dialog boxes.
- For low-level filtering out visible notification of various errors use registry entry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Windows\ErrorMode.
ErrorMode value descriptions:
0 - All messages are visible (default value).
1 - Only system messages are invisible. An example of this type of message is: "Virtual Memory Minimum Too Low."
2 - All messages are invisible. An example of this type of message is: "Unable to Locate Component" shown when application can't load DLL statically linked to it.