What is "DrWatson's Postmortem Debugger" and why do I have it?

Question

TELL ME, DAMN IT, TELL ME!!!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;308538

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,640479,00.asp

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/n1029715523

http://forums.3dgamers.com/showthread.php?t=3729 = drwtsn32.exe ; This explains it well.


Follow the instructions here to disable it:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;188296

Reboot and these two processes should no longer be present:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drwtsn32.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drwtsn32.exe

Answer 2

it's built into windows, and sends crash-info back to the mother-ship (Microsoft) when you tell it to.

and believe it or not, people (or programs sometimes) actually go through all of the crash-dumps they receive!