Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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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