Tuesday, November 13, 2007

How To Disable Dr. Watson

If you want to disable Dr. Watson follow these steps:

1. Click Start => click Run, type regedit.exe in Run window, and then click OK.

2. Next thing is to find following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug

Good to know: if you want later to restore changes that you made to you registry, follow steps 3. and 4. , if not go to step 5.

3. Click the AeDebug key, and click Export Registry File on the Registry menu (you can also find it in the right click menu)

4. Enter a name and choose a location for the registry file that you want to save, and then click Save.

5. Finally delete the AeDebug key.

And that is how you do it.
If you want to re-enable Dr. Watson again type drwtsn32 -i (click Start => click Run ...)

I tried it on Windows Xp, I haven't checked other versions of Windows, so if somebody did try it, feel free to inform me.

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