The Dr. Watson tool supplied with Windows must be configured to save information about program crashes and hangs. This setup step must be performed prior to recreating the problem scenario.
DRWTSN32.EXE
from a command prompt. The Dr.Watson
configuration dialog will be displayed and will look similar to the following:
drwtsn32.log
and user.dmp
files will be retrieved
from those locations.Number of Instructions
' is at least 10.
Number of Errors to Save
' is at least 10.
Full
' for the 'Crash Dump Type'
option.
Dump Symbol table
Dump All Thread Contexts
Append to Existing Log File
Create Crash Dump File
Visual Notification
'OK'
to save these settings.
drwtsn32 -i