title: Disabling Windows error reporting (Dr. Watson) for my process
body: <p>I have an application that is hosting some unstable third-party code which I can't control in an external process to protect my main application from nasty errors it exhibits.  My parent process is monitoring the other process and doing "the right thing (tm)" when it fails.</p>
  
  <p>The problem that I have is that Dr. Watson is still detecting crashes in the isolated process and attaching to the processes on the way down to take a crash dump.  This has the two problems of:
  1. Dramatically slowing down the time that it takes for me to detect a failure because the process stays alive while the crash dump is being taken.
  2.  Showing annoying popups to the user asking if they want to submit the error reports to Microsoft.</p>
  
  <p>Clearly I would prefer to fix the bugs in the child process, but given that it isn't an option, I would like to be able to selectively disable Dr. Watson (and Windows Error Reporting in Vista+) for that process.</p>
  
  <p>I am running some of my own code in the process before handing off to the untrusted bit, so if there is an API that I can call that affects the current process that would be fine.</p>
  
  <p>I am aware of: <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/188296" rel="noreferrer">http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/188296</a> which would disable Dr. Watson for the entire machine.  I don't want to do that because it would make me a bad citizen to trash a machine-wide setting.</p>
  
  <p>I am also aware of the WerSetFlags option in Vista+ that would seem to disable windows error reporting for the current process, but I need something that will disable Dr.Watson on earlier OS versions.</p>