Disable Dr.Watson

Dr. Watson is an debugger in Microsoft Windows operating system.It is named after Doctor Watson character of Sherlock Holmes Books who was known for his intelligence and error collecting and analysing the case Helping holmes.

It is usually named drwatson.exe, drwtsn32.exe or dwwin.exe depending on the version of Windows.

When a error occurs on windows it detects and diagnoses program errors and pops a window showing the error,It is very useful as it alerts about the bugs and Rectifies it.But this may sometime quite irritating when ever it pops up suddenly.


Here is a Tip to disable the Dr.watson service

*Start the registry editor
Goto Start --> Run --> type "regedit.exe" and Hit enter.
*Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ AeDebug
*Click on AeDebug and click Del

or just set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ AeDebug \ AUTO to 0

To re-enable it, type: drwtsn32 -i at the run.