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Delete Dr. Watson

Attention. Using this feature, like the others in this section, is not necessary. Rather, it is an exception. These functions are designed for very experienced users. Use them only if you know exactly what you are doing. Changes selected in this section cannot be undone using Red Button. To recover deleted Windows components, you will need the distribution from which the operating system was installed.

This feature allows to delete Dr. Watson, an application debugger included with the Microsoft Windows operating system that is used to help detect, decode, and log errors that are encountered while Windows or Windows programs are running. This is supposed to be helpful in finding a solution.

Microsoft:

"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. When an error is detected, Dr. Watson creates a text file (Drwtsn32.log) that can be delivered to support personnel by the method they prefer. You also have the option of creating a crash dump file, which is a binary file that a programmer can load into a debugger."

The article about Dr. Watson in Wikipedia

Risk Level: RED

System reboot: not required

OS: 7, Vista, XP