| All comments about drwtsn32.exe: |
 | Safe - launches when an application thats part of the OS fails |
| I love to Dump | DRWTSN32.exe is used to gather debug information when a program crashes. It creates a log file in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\DrWatson\drwatsn32.log See also: Link |
 A Name | ate up my resources till computer crashed, second time I stopped it in the task manager |
| kevin | it doesnt let any application work |
| David | starts everytime XP boots and uses 90 % CPU + reserves more and more mem. File is ca. 47 k, when removed it always comes back. |
| berensflame | This is the Dr. Watson Postmortem Debugger application. Do NOT turn this off See also: Link |
 Duke Raster | For the last few days i have been noticing that my DR watson post mortem debugger has been encounternig errors like i was watching movies and it would pop up i fid it anoying and should be checked immeditaly for viruses |
| sedam | Dr. Watson for Windows is a program error debugger that gathers information about your computer See also: Link |
| James | I've NEVER had Dr. Watson installed on my system but this file came from somewhere and its trying to connect to the internet. |
| | WindowsTask Manager show me as operator and not the system also i found a log file in the C:\windows\Crypto\ |
| Galaky | This file has done what "A Name" said, just ate up everything and made my comp crash. What is this thing?? |
| Galaky | not much at all |
| reluctant IT | wreaks havoc on computer, can't right-click on desktop or add new file folders. Can't remove program, must wipe hard drive & start over, grrrr. |
| Dave | It consumed nearly all system resources. In the task manager there were more than 1200 processes running and most of them were drwtsn32.exe. |
 jglenn32 | When I start computer a message appears that Dr.Watson has detected an error. When I clik to report I am informed that I must be on line but the sign on window is not functional. It blocks all programs. |
| napysak | i have just found two versions of drwtsn32.exe in system32 folder , one was 45k in length the other was 23k long i have deleted the 23k file |
| Ed | It stops me from viewing pictures and movies. I have to close it in task manager, then it closes the folder and files I was trying to view. When I go back to try again, DrWatson32 again freezes my computer and I continue the cycle of shutting it off, trying to view files, it closing all open applications, etc. |
| slhvirgo30 | Nothing except that its not computer friendly |
| Bigongo | drwtsn32.exe. blocks my pc every time I click the right button from a file on the desktop |
| Latz | drwtsn32.exe mostly runs when i am trying to open some windows media files, may be becuz some files or corrupted when this happns explorer shuts down and is restarted again, it only happns with certain wma files. |
| Lionhead | DO NOT remove this application...it's an essential process |
 Brandon | is not dangerous in itself, but if it crashes then usually it is linked to another spyware or adware software |
| Downstrike | It's an insufferable wannabe busybody symptom of DCS* that starts up when some other app is crashing, just so it can crash too. On the rare occasion that it doesn't crash, it will provoke MyCrudSoft's web site to open and blame the crash on some application that wasn't even running, or may not even be installed on your PC, just to pass the buck. *DCS = Disobedient Computer Syndrome, in which your PC will hunt down any piddly little excuse to do anything other than the task you're trying to accomplish. See also: Link |
| UnrealFox | All it really does, from what I've seen is devour CPU usage.. but I cant remove it "Access Denied" and whatnot.... |
| Emko | It uses up a lot of my memory and causes almost every program i use to close for no particular reason |
| jj | it gets in the way and i think its a virus, because i never seen it before now it pops up with an error, and i just closed it out and explorer.exe started working again so theres something wrong with this prog |
| isinpt | Your pc needs maintenance like your body,drwtsn32.exe is like your body immune system,which prevents you from crashing, little learning is dangerous thing, goto www.microsoft.com See also: Link |
 InfamousMyzt | Just some stupid Micro$oft debugging program. Whoever named it is sick, but no problems here. If it really takes all your cpu, either your processor sucks, or its been reinstalled by a virus/trojan/backdoor. |
| V8matey | program conflict both versions |
| Tramtrammertrau | I deleted it and my XP laptop seems to be running better. It shut down my system when accessing "my documents" when it was installed. |
| | If it screws up it creates this white box in the middle of the screen and does not do anything. |
| Gary | I had 3,200 drwtsn32.ece processes open, choking the CPU. I think it may be related to psyme virus. I don't have Dr Watson installed. |
| | creates an error log using ALL of C: freespace |
| Jesse R (ImCanadianEh15) | Download HiJackThis (search it with yahoo). Open HiJackThis and click Scan and save log file. Copy and paste the log file to www.HiJackThis.de and it will say if you have ANY unsafe or unneeded files in your registry and help you get rid of them. My Email is down below if you need help with hijackthis. See also: Link |
| | sometimes when i work in certain maps my windows freezes and a window opens that say that drwtsn32.exe must be shut down, when i open taskman i can close it down, after that there is a "shutdown" like if i shutdown explorer.exe but it reloads almost instant and then i can use windows like always even though all the windows has bin closed. i recently changed name on the file in system32 and windows works... |
| | Everytime i see this on my processes and i try to play music etc, it makes my explorer unresponsive, along with most other things, its very annoying. |
| Arjuna(Chance) AAttore(Smith) | Dr.Watson is now blocking me from being able to look at other link/sites/pages.Please help me disable/get rid of it,Please Help.ThankYou,Arjun*:323-302-2922. myspace.com/arjuna_aattore |
| stathu | drwtsn is a windows application which consumes all my memory and slows down my computer |
| Sasha | This is from windows help, so i guess drwtsn.exe is NOT a virus, but it can be sometimes anoying: "Dr. Watson (Drwtsn32.exe) is installed in your system folder when you set up Windows. The default options are set the first time Dr. Watson runs, which can be either when a program error occurs or when you start Dr. Watson yourself." |
| Vaclav | only ever see it if I have overload CPU |
| Chris | It hogs system resources, auto executes itself for no reason (multiple times) and causes my explorer.exe to crash. As well as many of my PC games. |
| Naomi | I think it may interfere with The Sims. |
| Eric Gould | Closing it tends to make my computer shut down, I'd leave it alone, if it starts acting up, run some anti-virus, anti-spyware, etc. |
| Andris | Drwtsn writes down some system information in the moment of a crash. What else it does, i donīt know, i think it sends the Info to MS. I think it wouldnīt really be necessary for the system but normally it does no harm. Though it has some problems with some xvid codecs. So if itīs crashing, while u try to watch some movie, try to uninstall your xvid-codec. |
| haa | Dr. Watson for Windows is a program error debugger that gathers information about your computer |
| Peter J F | It uses up a huge amount of memory i stopped the process and did not have any adverse affects after that |
| asser | Haven't seen it in the task manager before, now it pops up, takes over 200mbs of ram and 75%+ cpu, got on my nerves. Windows has been getting on my nerves for ever since i started using it...Installed ubuntu yesterday and am a lot happier now. |
| nt | Not a dangerous process. Windows process that starts up when another program crashes. If it's overusing system resources it can usually be sorted with a good registry fixing utility. Some spyware can disguise itself as drwtsn32 but don't get worried if it only shows up when another program crashes, that process is most likely a genuine windows process |
| | It seems to be essential as i have only noticed it when internet explorer stops responding. However, it has started doing this an awful lot when it never did before. So maybe it is dr watson causing this. |
| quickness | nags on my resources and want let me run any programs or even go through my computer.....=\......this program or so called dr watson is a virus that doesnt need to be on xp |
| Smokin Joe No nothing | nothing, but it shouldn't start up at start up..That would mean your having an error at start up |
| Fedup | I would like to know if to try to remove it or leave it alone. If i am to leave it alone how do i get it to behave, this thing messes up my system every time i try to view a DIVX or AVI file. |
| Andrew | randomly it makes the computer slow and then suddenly "Drwtson32.exe has crashed" ,on the odd occasion my computer will blue screen right after |
| so and so | on my machine, it messes with explorer.exe and causes all kinds of problems |
| ryan | I have 2 of these processes, dont know what to do. didnt even install it, all i got was some error crap |
| f | The (uninfected) drwtsn32.exe is not dangerous, but it is also not essential. Those with the "crashing movie/image folder" try 1) disable preview 2) uninstall crappy video codecs (esp. "packs"), it's usually those that crash but show up as explorer crashing since explorer asks them to generate a preview. Disabling or deleting dr.watson will only make it harder to identify how programs really fail - generally if you don't to resolve your crash with MS support or are capable of identifying problematic DLLs out of such a log yourself, you don't "need" dr. watson. See also: Link |
| | Well.... i have Drwtson i noticed it comes up alot if i get a virus.. And im thinking it is a virus right now i know its a windows core file but its a stupid program i got a top of the line Gaming computer with a 3.2 ghz quadcore cpu and it slows it down with 4 gb ram and 1 tg hard drive.... dont understand but it makes thinks slow i cant even move a song and explorer is like freezing... i close drwtsn out processes and my comp is like abullet... so if you all want help look in good How to get rid of dr.wtsn.exe and delete it outa system 32 |
| Erlend | i saw a new textdokument on my computer and when i opened it i got a warning that drwtsn32.exe needed to be shut down and then my pc freezed for a min and then was just working fine. I got two drwtsn32.exe running, one at almost 8000kb and one at almost 3000kb. Havent noticed any change on the computer or slow down. So im not relly sure about this but i just wanted to give my info to be of some help :) |
| | mine is reporting errors occaisionaly for certain folders (lit.2or3) on an external drive. at other times when there has been no crash for at least halg an hr it try to acess system memory and the internet. |
| Barb | Knocks me off the internet and won't let me back on unless I restart my computer |
| Dr Moon | its a debugger for windows = though sometimes i see 3-4 drwatsons in processes ._. ?? |
| | as others have said, it's a windows app which will autorun when certain other apps crash (usually video related I think). it can hog resources so that if you try to just reopen the crashed program it is more likely to crash again and then you have another drwtsn running as a result of that. then you're in this cycle of crashes. if this happens then just walk away for a while, come back, and end process on any drwtsn processes still running then you should be fine. you should generally have no need and no desire to get rid of the drwtsn32.exe entirely. |
| Alex | like many have said, it is a program debugger that gives crash analysis to microsoft, it comes preinstalled on windows XP and cannot be removed, it will simply re-create itself. IF you are having trouble with it, run sfc -scannow from command, or run a windows repair. |
| Raltar Creed | This "Dr" is about as worthless as a real doctor, which is to say that its a complete waste of your time and money unless you happen to be bleeding to death. Someone needs to figure out how to remove this thing. It just gets in the way. |
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