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Dr. Watson
Dr. Watson detects information about Windows system and program failures and records the infor-
mation in a log file. Dr. Watson starts automatically at the event of a program error. To start Dr. Watson,
click
Start
, click
Run
, and then type
drwtsn32
. To start Dr. Watson from a command prompt, change to
the root directory, and then type
drwtsn32
.
When a program error occurs, Dr. Watson creates a log file (Drwtsn32.log) which contains:
•
The line
Application exception occurred
:.
•
Program error information.
•
System information about the user and the computer on which the program error occurred.
•
The list of tasks that were running on the system at the time that the program error occurred.
•
The list of modules that the program loaded.
•
The state dump for the thread ID that is listed.
•
The state dump’s register dump.
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The state dump’s instruction disassembly.
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The state dump’s stack back trace.
•
The state dump’s raw stack dump.
•
The symbol table.
The default log file path is:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson
.
The default Crash Dump path is:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson\user.dmp
.
