[thelist] Tip O'Day.....Day-OH!

<TIP TYPE="WindowsNT" Author="Anthony Baratta">

Windows NT has a program called Dr. Watson. Dr. Watson is invoked by the operating
system when an application crashes. It throws up an error screen and some information
that it deems as helpful to you. Nice if you are working on a desktop PC, but not
nice if this happens to your server.

Why?

Because Dr. Watson will make your running applications non responsive until you clear
the message box. This includes SQL Server and ASP applications that interact with the
File System and the database!! If you are not "looking" at your NT Server regularly,
you can have this lockup for days - without knowing.

To turn off Dr. Watson:

Start the registry editor (regedit.exe) 
Goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug 
Set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug\AUTO to 0

To re-enable Dr. Watson type drwtsn32 -i

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Gwad I hate Windows. sigh.

-- 
Anthony Baratta