How can I disable Dr. Watson?

John Savill

March 4, 1999

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A. Dr. Watson can be disabled using the registry editor:

  1. Start the registry editor (regedit.exe)

  2. Goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionAeDebug

  3. Click on AeDebug and click Del

Alternativly just set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionAeDebugAUTO to 0

To re-enable Dr. Watson type drwtsn32 -i

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