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More info?)
Mike,
[[Dr. Watson also records an entry in the Event Viewer Application Log
containing the program name, date, time, exception number, exception name,
program counter, and function name at the current program counter, as well
as the complete diagnostic information that was logged for that error.]]
So deleting everything in drwtsn32.log doesn't matter, you can read about it
in the Event Viewer.
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:8l6jc1128plre8vpkknjlmkt00lftodqos@4ax.com,
Mike Laine <mmlxp@yahoo.com> hunted and pecked:
> On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 16:56:48 -0600, "Wesley Vogel"
> <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> If you have a lot of program errors, drwtsn32.log will get huge.
>>
>> Either delete the drwtsn32.log or open it and delete the contents.
>>
>> To open Dr. Watson...
>> Start | Run | Type: drwtsn32 | OK |
>>
>> drwtsn32.exe = DrWatson Postmortem Debugger
>>
>> drwtsn32.exe lives here >>>
>> C:\WINDOWS\system32
>> and
>> C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache
>>
>> drwtsn32.log should be here, if Dr Watson has ever run >>
>>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson\
>>
>> If a program error occurs, Dr. Watson will start automatically.
>>
>> Dr. Watson is a program error debugger that detects and diagnoses program
>> errors and creates User.dmp and DrWtsn32.log files to contain the
>> diagnostic data.
>
> Thanks for this, Wesley, at least I can free up some memory but I
> would rather it wasn't so big in the first place.
> Mike