poatt

I want to know why DR Watson is making text reports of 4 gig size?
When I open Dr Watson it always comes up with "No Problems".
What possibly could the program be saying (on a system with no problems) to
make a txt document of 4 gigs? That is a lot of words. Plus when I tried to
open it(the document ,with word pad) it would not open. And the file is not
protected in anyway.

Jim

"poatt" <poatt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:099EE71B-C708-4975-A290-8832F8DAA9C3@microsoft.com...
> I want to know why DR Watson is making text reports of 4 gig size?
> When I open Dr Watson it always comes up with "No Problems".
> What possibly could the program be saying (on a system with no problems)
> to
> make a txt document of 4 gigs? That is a lot of words. Plus when I tried
> to
> open it(the document ,with word pad) it would not open. And the file is
> not
> protected in anyway.
>
Dr. Watson runs because some program or other has crashed. It is a
debugger.

When you try to run it, of course it says that there are no problems because
there are none.

I'll bet that word pad cannot interpret the file. A program that converts
the data to an understandable format. Such a program usually reports the
contents of the file in hex format; sometimes the report the machine
language interpretation of the contents as well.

Jim

poatt

Thanks for the input! Since I could not read the "Txt" file to see what went
wrong to create such a large file. And the system seems to work porperly. I
shredded the file with my shredder program and defraged the drive. It is gone.
I saw no reason to WASTE 4gigs of HD for an unreadable report log.
Question...
Is there a way to stop "DR Watson" or uninstall it?

"Jim" wrote:

>
> "poatt" <poatt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:099EE71B-C708-4975-A290-8832F8DAA9C3@microsoft.com...
> > I want to know why DR Watson is making text reports of 4 gig size?
> > When I open Dr Watson it always comes up with "No Problems".
> > What possibly could the program be saying (on a system with no problems)
> > to
> > make a txt document of 4 gigs? That is a lot of words. Plus when I tried
> > to
> > open it(the document ,with word pad) it would not open. And the file is
> > not
> > protected in anyway.
> >
> Dr. Watson runs because some program or other has crashed. It is a
> debugger.
>
> When you try to run it, of course it says that there are no problems because
> there are none.
>
> I'll bet that word pad cannot interpret the file. A program that converts
> the data to an understandable format. Such a program usually reports the
> contents of the file in hex format; sometimes the report the machine
> language interpretation of the contents as well.
>
> Jim
>
>
>

Ghostrider

poatt wrote:

> Thanks for the input! Since I could not read the "Txt" file to see what went
> wrong to create such a large file. And the system seems to work porperly. I
> shredded the file with my shredder program and defraged the drive. It is gone.
> I saw no reason to WASTE 4gigs of HD for an unreadable report log.
> Question...
> Is there a way to stop "DR Watson" or uninstall it?
>

Run drwtsn32.exe. From the options list, uncheck all of the boxes (although
leaving Visual Notification "on" could be useful).

Kayman

"poatt" <poatt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6C254F6E-1BD2-4B2F-8F5F-8602138B86C9@microsoft.com...

> Is there a way to stop "DR Watson" or uninstall it?

Yes, there is.

Disable Dr. Watson dump file creation.

Go to start, then run, then type in ‘regedit.exe’ and hit ‘Enter’.
Browse to the following location in the left pane:
HKEY_LOCAL-MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug
Left click on the value ‘Auto’ on the right pane, and change the value from
‘1’ to ‘0’ Close the registry editor.
To delete the dump files created by Dr Watson on earlier occasions, you will
have to delete them manually with this procedure: Open Windows explorer,
Browse to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr
Watson and delete files named User.dmp and Drwtsn32log.

Good luck

poatt

Tanks all for the input!

"poatt" wrote:

> I want to know why DR Watson is making text reports of 4 gig size?
> When I open Dr Watson it always comes up with "No Problems".
> What possibly could the program be saying (on a system with no problems) to
> make a txt document of 4 gigs? That is a lot of words. Plus when I tried to
> open it(the document ,with word pad) it would not open. And the file is not
> protected in anyway.
>

Jim

"poatt" <poatt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6C254F6E-1BD2-4B2F-8F5F-8602138B86C9@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for the input! Since I could not read the "Txt" file to see what
> went
> wrong to create such a large file. And the system seems to work porperly.
> I
> shredded the file with my shredder program and defraged the drive. It is
> gone.
> I saw no reason to WASTE 4gigs of HD for an unreadable report log.
> Question...
> Is there a way to stop "DR Watson" or uninstall it?
>
Yes, there is a local security policy setting to disable Dr. Watson. You
might as well do that because few people have the tools or experience to get
much from the dump.
Jim
> "Jim" wrote:
>
>>
>> "poatt" <poatt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:099EE71B-C708-4975-A290-8832F8DAA9C3@microsoft.com...
>> > I want to know why DR Watson is making text reports of 4 gig size?
>> > When I open Dr Watson it always comes up with "No Problems".
>> > What possibly could the program be saying (on a system with no
>> > problems)
>> > to
>> > make a txt document of 4 gigs? That is a lot of words. Plus when I
>> > tried
>> > to
>> > open it(the document ,with word pad) it would not open. And the file is
>> > not
>> > protected in anyway.
>> >
>> Dr. Watson runs because some program or other has crashed. It is a
>> debugger.
>>
>> When you try to run it, of course it says that there are no problems
>> because
>> there are none.
>>
>> I'll bet that word pad cannot interpret the file. A program that
>> converts
>> the data to an understandable format. Such a program usually reports the
>> contents of the file in hex format; sometimes the report the machine
>> language interpretation of the contents as well.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>