Anybody know how to disable the windows debugging function? Sometimes it takes forever and I have no use fo rit.
TIA
donno about disabling, but you can usually end task Dr.Watson(an actual exe that seems to be the debugger case u didn’t know) Might also try renaiming the exe so windows can’t find it and gives up.
~Garret
It’s Drwtsn32.exe .. I set it to report less stuff so maybe it won’t take so long..
Right click on “My Computer” and select “Properties” select the “Advanced” tab and select the “Startup and Recovery” button and then select “none” or “minidump” under the System Failure options.
and then and then and then…
That whole thing in my computer only stops the system from dumping a core when the whole thing goes down. Dr. Watson still catches the crash.
If you want to disable dr.watson
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersion AeDeb ug
Delete that key
if you want you can export it to a file. But thats the way to stop Dr.watson
That Ole Russell
just run
C:winntsystem32DRWTSN32.EXE
and uncheck “create crash dump file”, then go to
C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersDocumentsDrWatson
and delete everything out of there, then go to
“system properties”>“startup and recovery”, uncheck “write an event to the system log” and “send an administrative alert”, and change “write debugging information” to “none”
the crash dump files created by windows are 99% worthless, they have almost no meaning to anyone except possibly a microsoft programmer and usually the most useful information you can get out of one of those files in what program caused the crash. Which in itself wouldn’t be useful to most people unless a program that they themselves were making was causing the crash.
Call my crazy; but I think deleting the registry key is alot easier than going through all those steps ;>
you don’t even need to backup the key if you don’t want. I didn’t. Besides; I’ve found a few uses for the crash dumps; helps me track down hardware issues, and if you have a pressing one that needs taking care of it; often punching in the first few lines (page fault in X.Y mem:address ussually) will often yield helpful results at http://support.microsoft.com
though doctor watson is useless unless your sending dumps back to software developers.
That Ole Russell