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Sep 27th, 2007 by Jason
If you haven’t heard it before, you may wonder what is Dr. Watson? Here is a brief explanation:
Dr. Watson for Windows is a program error debugger that gathers information about your computer when an error (or user-mode fault) occurs with a program. Technical support groups can use the information that Dr. Watson obtains and logs to diagnose a program error.
So, that means this debugger will collect information and send to Microsoft for further analysis. But for your testing computer that don’t have internet, or if you feel it’s useless for you anyway, just follow these steps to turn off.
1.Go to Start Menu –>> Run and type regedit.exe then press Enter.
2.Browse to the following registry. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug
3.Click the AeDebug key, and then click Export Registry File on the Registry menu. Save the file and remember it.
4.Then you can delete the AeDebug key.
That’s it! Whenever any programs crash again, Windows won’t ask you whether you want to send data to Microsoft or not
Well I did this and IT STILL DOESNT WORK