drwatson postmortem debugger

[seb]

what is it exactly? is it spyware of something? my itunes had to be shut downand it came up with this... :S :dead:

 

[jonesyx]

dont know but i get this aswel, happend when i try to send an email thru outlook express, got windows xp home, what you got?

 

[Dash]

It is the program that collects information about a program that has crashed and sends it to Microsoft (the send/do not send box that appears when a program crashes).

 

[seb]

xp pro

i did a quick google and it does appear to be a microsoft program of somesort but a lot of people seem to get rid of it. dunno why though! nothing to worry about then?

 

[Dash]

No its a clean utility. Has been part of Windows since 3.1 if I remember correctly.

 

[seb]

coolio, ta

 

[3000GT_PILOT]

i have had this come up recentley too, never seen it before! thanks for the info!

 

[sn00p]

It generates a file which contains the contents of the processors registers and flags. It also provides a dump of the stack so that you can see how the program got to where it is. It also contains information about the core system (version, sp state etc).

It's one of windows most utterly useless features as it sends the information about app crashes to microsoft, when it should send it to the software vendor - I think they've fixed this in vista though.

If you're entirely paranoid then it's more than possible that private information could be in the stack.

 

[y0z2a]

dr watson is an error logging utility that is part of windows - as James said.

/y0z

 

[Chris3125]

and heres me thinking its a little doctor man living inside my pc. :|

 

[Dash]

No thats probably nurse gibson in your media folder

 

[Adams_16v]

not seen that Dr b*****d Watson since WinNT!!!