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Dr Watson Do you want it ?

Do you want Dr Watson ?

It does leave sensitive information for nasties to get Similar to the debugging programs Dr. Watson saves information when applications crash.

Here I post the usual Caveats on Registry.

__**Note:‐**__

Because there are several versions of Microsoft Windows, the following steps may be different on your computer.

If they are, see your product documentation to complete these steps.

How to disable Dr. Watson:‐

Go to :‐

Start > Run, In the box type without the quotes “ regedit “ OK.

Scroll to :‐

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\ Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug Set/change the Auto string to 0. quit the Regedit

Then use Windows Explorer to go to :‐

Documents and Settings\All Users\Shared Documents\DrWatson.

Delete User.dmp and Drwtsn32.log,

Which are the insecure logs the program creates.

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.