Solution to Fix “Dr.Watson Postmortem Debugger has encountered a Problem and needs to Close”

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What’s Dr.Watson? Is this a Virus?

Dr.Watson for Windows is a debugger that will be useful to debug and creates log files when a error occurs with in a program.Technical support people will analyze and fix the errors.It is not a virus or malware program.


Dr.Watson creates log files at C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson .It actually crashes some times and gives the error as given below.

“Dr.Watson Postmortem Debugger has encountered a problems and needs to close”

Why Dr.Watson crashes and give error?

Unfortunately When you are browsing through Internet Explorer or working with any other program if that program crashes,then Dr.Watson program it self crashes and gives that error.

Does I really need this Dr.Watson program?

No not really in fact Windows Error Reporting service also do same as Dr.Watson as you know you can send error reports to Microsoft through Windows Error Reporting .

What’s the Fix?

Fix to this problem is disabling Dr.Watson as Windows Error Reporting available ,we don’t require Dr.Watson .

Disabling Dr.Watson

1.Click Start>Run>type Regedit and click ok.

2.Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version

3.Select AeDebug in the right pane ,double click it and enter value 0.


4.Close registry editor ,restart your computer.

You won’t get this error again.

If you have problem with access to registry download the registry file released by Microsoft from here Run that registry file.

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