Dr Watson

[Guest]

i keep havinf trouble with windows explorer as it keeps clsoing down on me.
at the same time drwatson also crashes even though i have never started it up
before. is there any way to close drwatson32.exe??? this usually occurs only
when i am downloading some music so i hope thats not the problem.

 

[Dave]

dr watson is the windows process that is used when a program crashes to
create the dump files that can be analyzed to determine why the program
crashed. it is normally hard to shut down because it runs as a system
process so it can access the memory space that was in use by the crashed
program before it is returned to the os for some other use. i think there
is a way to turn that process off, but if you do then i think the automatic
upload to ms and their reporting back probably wouldn't work.