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I know it reports errors and stuff, but where is? How do you run it? How do you view the errors it creates? I ask cause I tried overclocking last night and got into Windows though everything I ran created these reports and I wanna see them...
Dr. Watson is something I've never found a use for.
I know that Halo runs it when it crashes. I think Dr Watson is used in normal OS error reports too, but to be honest I can't see why the hell anybody would actually want to run it themselves.
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I only want to run it to find out where the reports go... I've had a few errors lately saying that reports had been generated (only found out it was Dr Watson thanks to Kerio asking me everytime one program trys to run another!!! - OTT?) but didn't know where they were.
It's a left over relic from the old windows 3.1 days, it's supposed to intercept program crashes before they take the whole system down, and give you some clue why they crashed, but I don't think it's ever worked properly as it's normally Dr Watson that crashes out anyway..
It dumps a file called Drwtsn32.log in drive:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINNT\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson if you're at all bothered
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Dr Watson first appeared in Windows NT no? That's when MS licensed it from Norton I think...
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nope, I distinctly remember it popping up when I was at high school in a boring tech class and that was all win 3.1
Dr Watson has always been a part of windows (apart from win95 oddly), and resides on disk 4 of the win 3.1 floppies
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