   Damn I hate Dr. Watson!
  What piece of crap program.  For those of you who don''t know what it is, it is a program built into Windows 2000 that automatically keeps track of when you have a crash, and because it is sooooooo helpful, it decides that whenever a program crashes, it creates a crash dump file...  the problem?Well, I had recently noticed that my hard drive was losing space.  It turns out Dr. Watson had kept adding stuff onto my dump file so that it was 560 megs!  Supposedly you can send this dump file to tech support so then they can use it to diagnose your problem.As wonderful as that may be for people who actually use tech support, I find the fact that 560 megabytes of data got sucked up for a file that I will never use very annoying.I would strongly recommend anyone that has Windows 2000 like me (I don''t know Windows XP might do this too, but I''ve had no experience with it) to browse to their \Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\DrWatson directory and see if there is a .DMP file in it.  If so, I would highly recommend you delete it, unless you actually plan on sending it to tech support, which I highly doubt.If you want Dr. Watson to stop creating these useless files completely, so you never have to delete them again, you can go run "DrWtsn32" from the start menu.  Then, uncheck the box that says "Create Crash Dump File".Sorry for the rant, this just really pissed me off that Microsoft would make me have to turn off a useless feature that not only sucks up space on my hard drive but is something I''ll never use.  
  Actually, it''d be kind of funny if you did send the 560 meg file to tech support.  ;  My thoughts exactly...    Under construction: my place.  ;  In WinXP it is located in: \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson\My dump file was only 15 kB, although I''ve had several crashes. The log file was 0.5 MB.  ;  Through the control panel - select Adminstrative Tools. From there open the Event Viewer. From there highlight Application Log and select Properties. On that tab there are a host of settings that can be adjusted - maximum log size, overwrite events older than 7 days and so forth. ;  Sorry. I don''t have DrWatson on my computer.    ---------------------------------my website: heavy assault---------------------------------  ;  46.7 mb  ;  Doesnt the Visual Studio debugger replace Dr Watson upon installation? I haven''t seen the Dr Watson prompt in ages.    The world holds two classes of men -- intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.  Abu''l-Ala-Al-Ma''arri (973-1057; Syrian poet);  The thing with Dr. Watson is that you can change the target directory. When I was using Win 2000, it was set up so that all Dr. Watson files were dumped to an alternate 2.0 gig drive    KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES!  