Dr. Watson (debugger)

Doctor Watson ( drwtsn32.exe or DRWATSON.EXE, named after Dr. Watson, the assistant of Sherlock Holmes) is an integrated in Microsoft Windows error diagnostic. It was developed for Windows 3.0 and was up to and including Windows XP part of any Windows version. In Windows 2000, XP and 2003, running as an installed service for debugging and collecting debugging information. It is activated at system startup and running thereafter as dwwin.dll in the background. The information collected during malfunctions can be sent by the reporting service over the Internet to Microsoft for error analysis.

The versions 5.0 and 6.0 of Windows Mobile also have the ability to send information about program errors to Microsoft for analysis.

Starting with Windows Vista Dr. Watson was seen by problems and fix in the Control Panel replaced, even if the program DrWatson nor the command entry " programs / files search " is called.