WerFault.exe locks processes

Question

Hi.
I have applications that crash very soon, we working on it... But there is another question.
Windows exception handler WerFault.exe sometimes suspends crashed application for a long time and it totally locks. Even after sign out of user, suspended process remains. Windows Error Reporting Service disabled.
Is there way to totally disable WerFault.exe?

Answer 1

Hi Partner,
Thank you for your post.
From your description, I see that you want to know how to disable WerFault.exe.
Please let me know if I have misunderstood anything.
Based on my research, for current situation, we can take the following steps to disable WerFault.exe.
1. Open Services console, select Windows Error Reporting Service.
2. Double-click it with you mouse and select Disable as startup type.
However, if we change startup type of the Windows Error Reporting Service to
Disabled,  Windows Error Reporting begins to make problems. If we do so, and a program triggers WerFault.exe, the WerFault.exe Process won’t terminate until you kill it yourself using taskkill /IM werfault.exe or taskmanager.
If we need to ensure that Werfault.exe will never be spawned when an unhandled exception is encountered, we can choose one of the following resolution paths.
1) Create a software restriction policy (via local policy or Domain GPO) to disallow Werfault.exe for all users.
Or
2) Use Image File Executions Options to cause Werfault.exe to be executed under a non-existent debugger(NUL).  Since NUL can’t be found, the process fails to launch.
(REG ADD “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\Werfault.exe” /v Debugger /t REG_SZ /d NUL /f)
Hopefully the information is helpful.
Please let me know if there is is any update. Thank you for your update.
Best Regards,
Sophia Sun
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