Say Goodbye To Dr. Watson
I stumbled on this guide when my computer kept on breaking. I hurriedly search for a simple solution to stop Dr. Watson from making debug reports coz it repeatedly broke my computer. Heres what I found using google search.
Dr Watson is a utility that is on all versions of Windows and provides an analysis of why your machine crashed - more commonly known as a debugger. A feature of the utility is to create a dump file. This dump file can be quite large - 100s of mb is not uncommon and the file it creates is useless to most people.
It is possible to turn off Dr Watson and there are two ways that you can do this.
Registry Method
Start the registry editor and go to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug” and edit the key “Auto” by double clicking on it. Change the 1 to a 0. Press OK and close the registry editor.
Graphical Interface Method
Click on Start, then Run, and enter “drwtsn32″ (minus the quotes).
In the utility that is displayed, the two options you want to change are “Dump all thread contents” and “Create Crash Dump File”. This will restrict what Dr Watson logs and how much disk space it uses.
