Turn off Dr. Watson, debugin program.

[Morgoth]

I am trying to turn off this debugging program, it's a pain in the ***, because when I get an error from anything running from a VB program, to ICQ, to my games, I have to go into my task manager to end the debugger because it's taking too long, and it's eating my ram.

I want to know how to turn it off, and I would also like to know how to turn it back on (just incase).

Thank you...

[Jason]

since you are running win2k, you don't have msconfig.exe in your winnt folder, if you download that you can see what boots up on your computer by typeing msconfig in the run menu. From there you can turn the program off since it would appear to be running in the background. At the same time, it will show the path of the .exe file that is running, and most likely if you have the prog turned off, then by clicking that exe file it will turn back on.


Jason

[sage45]

Here is the way prescribed by Microsoft:

To Disable Dr. Watson

1. Click Start --> Run, type regedit.exe in the Open box, and then click OK.

2. Locate and click the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ AeDebug

NOTE: Steps three and four are optional, but they necessary if you want to restore the default use of Dr. Watson.

3. Click the AeDebug key, and then click Export Registry File on the Registry menu.

4. Enter a name and location for the saved registry file, and then click Save.

5. Delete the AeDebug key.
Registry entries for debugger programs are located in the AeDebug key in Windows. The Dr. Watson program is installed by default in Windows, and is configured to run when an application error occurs (with a data value of 1 for the Auto value).

The default values are:
Value Name = Auto
Type = String (REG_SZ)
Data Value = 1 or 0. (Default is 1)

Value Name = Debugger
Type = String (REG_SZ)
Data Value = drwtsn32 -p %ld -e %ld -g

NOTE: This data value (drwtsn32 -p %ld -e %ld -g) is specific to Dr. Watson. Alternative debuggers will have their own values and parameters.

To Enable Dr. Watson

1. At a command prompt, type the following line, and then press ENTER:

drwtsn32 -i

2. Double-click the .reg file you created in steps three and four above.

Another method that is discussed elsewhere deals with simply changing the AUTO value between 1 and 0 where 1 is enabled and 0 is disabled... In other words:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ AeDebug

Value Name = Auto
Type = String (REG_SZ)
Data Value = 1 or 0. (Default is 1[enabled], 0[disabled])

HTH,

-sage-

[Morgoth]

Originally posted by Jason
since you are running win2k, you don't have msconfig.exe in your winnt folder, if you download that you can see what boots up on your computer by typeing msconfig in the run menu. From there you can turn the program off since it would appear to be running in the background. At the same time, it will show the path of the .exe file that is running, and most likely if you have the prog turned off, then by clicking that exe file it will turn back on.


Jason

I put a copy of msconfig for windows 2000 (Had to download it from somewhere, and I already looked inside that thing, but I don't see anything releated to the program running... (when it runs)

Originally posted by sage45
Here is the way prescribed by Microsoft:
...
-sage-

Well, I will look at that, but hopfully there is a better way then editing my registry...

[sage45]

Only way I have been able to find is the registry...

-sage-

[Morgoth]

Sage..
Well, I really don't want to edit my registry, BUT!
I thank you for giving me this and I might use it if I have no other choice..
Thanks again.

[Mhtml]

Editing the registry is the only way to accomplish it, without recking stuff that is.

If it's a registered process you can just use my AppKiller program to get rid of it.