Thursday, January 29, 2009

Disable Dr. Watson

Watson is a debugging tool in windows , which sometimes becomes quite irritating when ever it pops up suddenly .

Here is a method to disable it , if it bugs you :
Dr. Watson can be disabled using the registry editor:
1.Start the registry editor (Start >> Run >> type "regedit.exe" >> Hit enter )
2.Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \
Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ AeDebug
3.Click on AeDebug and click Del


Alternativly just set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ AeDebug \ AUTO to 0

To re-enable Dr. Watson type "drwtsn32 -i" in run window.

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