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| Thread ID: 65889 | 2006-02-03 06:33:00 | Dr Watson postmortem debugger"-what is it? | Dulouz (7243) | Press F1 |
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| 426807 | 2006-02-03 06:33:00 | I just logged into Explorer which froze up and then gave an error message talking about some fella called Dr. Watson - is this normal?, hopefully not a virus or something? | Dulouz (7243) | ||
| 426808 | 2006-02-03 07:00:00 | Dr Watson is Microsofts debugger program. It can monitor a specific application if you have a problem with it, and it will also capture the crash dump which can help with finding the source of the crash. Just ignore it unless you are finding Windows Explorer starts playing up again. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 426809 | 2006-02-03 11:29:00 | To turn it off do this. Run regedit and go to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug Change the auto field to 0 to disable it. If you want it back on later just change it back to 1. |
Pancake (6359) | ||
| 426810 | 2006-02-04 00:57:00 | I think it's more for the benefit of debuggers at Microsoft than for users. It produces a crash file which can be sent to MS with a fault report. If you don't bother reporting bugs, you might as well turn it off. | Graham L (2) | ||
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