Taming rhe DPC WatchDog?

I've been plagued by this for weeks, about 2 - 4 times a day, ever since Win 8 & an SSD.

After I updated the NVIDIA driver I had 2 days with no problem. But as I was opening the champagne he barked again. Updated the Realtek Azalia audio driver - it was OK for another day, but he's back.

Got me thinking - can we somehow make the 'dog a bit less aggressive? How to do that?

Then I found this:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itprogeneral/thread/ecd96c7e-9c30-45dd-bf0d-89ff39f6d854

which is a 'hotfix' for some cases of DPC Violation (133), but on Windows Server 2012.

Drat, I'm running Windows 8. But the hotfix was a response from MS about a Windows 8 problem, so why did the expert suggest a Server 2012 fix? Further down the posting it says the fix is also applicable to Win 8.

The OP responds with "I can't see those keys in my Registry".

MS Expert says " If you don't see those keys then create them, with the values shown above " (in the Server 2012 hotfix).

It looks like the fix is adjusting the 'dog's sleepy time.

MS typically provides and recommends use of 'hotfixes' only if you really have the problem it's designed to fix. I'm desperate enough to try it after the next BSOD.