Windows XP Dr. Watson

[michaelvader]

Good evening friends,
on my windows xp pc there is still a soft "Dr. Watson" active.
It seems to me that it is collecting a lot of useless data and take space on my hd
Is it usefull?
Or can it be desactivated?
If it might be desactivated, how to do that with out making thing bad?
Best Regards
Michael

 

[Priller]

This is what Micro$oft says about disabling and enabling Dr Watson:

Disable or enable Dr. Watson program - Windows Server

Describes how to disable and re-enable the Dr. Watson program for Windows.

learn.microsoft.com

Pretty straightforward really.

Priller

 

[wolfebee89]

Hallo Michael,

Sorry to hear about your problems with Dr. Watson - it mostly collects crash dump files after a typical CTD error!

In any case, in the event you are not already aware, an optimization and tweaking guide for Windows XP SP3 can be found at the following link: https://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks1.htm and which ought to help improve your OS performance and reduce the number of errors/crashes you face. All the best!

wb