What is this Dr Watson on my c drive?
Dr. Watson is an application debugger included with the Microsoft Windows operating system. It is usually named drwatson.exe, drwtsn32.exe or dwwin.exe depending on the version of Windows. It is named after Doctor Watson of Sherlock Holmes fame, with the idea being that it would collect error information (symptoms) following the problem. The use of the word “Watson” has since been expanded to include general end user feedback services. The original name of this diagnostic tool was “Sherlock” The information obtained and logged by Dr. Watson is the information needed by technical support personnel to diagnose a program error for a computer running Windows. A text file (Drwtsn32.log) is created whenever an error is detected, and can be delivered to support personnel by the method they prefer. A crash dump file can also be created, which is a binary file that a programmer can load into a debugger. Dr. Watson can be made to generate more exacting information for debugging purposes if the a
