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Disabling Dr. Watson Debugger

The document provides instructions for disabling or deleting the Dr. Watson debugger program in Windows XP. It explains that Dr. Watson creates log files when applications crash but can itself crash and cause errors. The summary is: The document gives steps to disable or delete the Dr. Watson program in Windows XP, which creates log files when applications crash but sometimes crashes itself and causes errors. It recommends changing a registry setting to disable Dr. Watson as Windows Error Reporting provides an alternative for application crash logs.

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Disabling Dr. Watson Debugger

The document provides instructions for disabling or deleting the Dr. Watson debugger program in Windows XP. It explains that Dr. Watson creates log files when applications crash but can itself crash and cause errors. The summary is: The document gives steps to disable or delete the Dr. Watson program in Windows XP, which creates log files when applications crash but sometimes crashes itself and causes errors. It recommends changing a registry setting to disable Dr. Watson as Windows Error Reporting provides an alternative for application crash logs.

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Disabling Dr.

Watson Debugger
 1
Log in to the Windows XP administrator account.
 2
Click the "Start" button and then "Run" in the Start menu.
 3
Type "drwtsn32" and press "Enter." It opens a "Dr. Watson" configuration window.
 4
Uncheck all boxes under "Options" in the "Dr. Watson" window. Click "OK."

Deleting Dr. Watson Debugger


 1
Log in to the Windows XP administrator account.
 2
Click the "Start" button and then "Run" in the Start menu.
 3
Type "cmd" followed by pressing "Enter" to open a command prompt window.
 4
Type "cd c:\windows\system32" and press "Enter."
 5
Type "del drwtsn32.exe" and press "Enter" to delete Dr. Watson.

If you are using Internet Explorer, Outlook or any Application, you can get Dr .Watson
Postmortem Debugger error. You can also observedrwtsn32.exe process running in the task
manager.Dr.Watson crasheswhen other applications crashed.

What’s Dr.Watson? Is this a Virus?


Dr.Watson for Windows is a debugger that will be useful to debug and creates log files when a error
occurs with in a program. Technical support people will analyze these log files and fix the errors. It is
not a virus or a malware program.Dr.Watson creates log files at  C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson.
It actually crashes some times frequently and gives the error as given below.

“Dr.Watson Postmortem Debugger has encountered a problems and needs to close”


Why Dr.Watson crashes and give error?
Unfortunately, when you are browsing through Internet Explorer or working with any other
program if that program crashes, then Dr.Watson program it self crashes and gives that error.
Does I really need this Dr.Watson  program?
No not really in fact Windows Error Reporting service also do the same as Dr.Watson, as you know
you can send error reports to Microsoft through Windows Error  Reporting also.
What’s the Fix?
Fix to this problem is disabling Dr.Watson as we have alternative Windows Error Reporting
available, we don’t require Dr.Watson .
Disabling Dr.Watson
1.Click Start>Run>type Regedit and click ok.

2.Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version

3.Select AeDebug in the right pane ,double click it and enter value 0.

4.Close registry editor, restart your computer.

You won’t get this error again in future.

If you have problem with access to registry, download the registry file released by Microsoft , run
that registry file.
Have you ever got Dr.Watson error? how you solved it to not appear that error again ? share with in
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