Guest poatt Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 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.
Guest Jim Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 Re: DrWatson "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
Guest poatt Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 Re: DrWatson 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 > > >
Guest Ghostrider Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 Re: DrWatson 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).
Guest Kayman Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 Re: DrWatson "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 :)
Guest poatt Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 RE: DrWatson 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. >
Guest Jim Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 Re: DrWatson "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 >> >> >>
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