Doctor Watson,what Is It???

[CHAPPY1]

HI FOLKS,
WELL STUMPED AGAIN,DOWN BY CLOCK IN THE TASK BAR I NOTICED A NEW ICON,CLICKED ON IT COMES UP DR WATSON,,HAVE NO IDEA HOW IT GOT THERE, ANYHOW RECEIVED A FEW EMAILS WITH ATTACHMENTS,COULD NOT VIEW THEM,THIS DOCTOR WATSON THING CAME UP SAYING ATTACHMENTS WERE NOT A DOCTOR WATSON FILE. ANYBODY KNOW KNOW WHAT I SHOULD DO,GET RID OF IT,KEEP IT, IF SO HOW DO I GET IT TO VIEW ATTACHMENTS WITH INCOMMING EMAILS???THANKING ALL RESPONSES IN ADVANCE, & PLEASE FOR GIVE THE CAPITAL PRINTING, FORGOT THE TRUE TYPISTS FORMAT,BUT HELP PLEASE!!!

[Ranger Bob]

Dr. Watson is what is know as a debugger. Usually if a program abends or crashes then Dr. Watson will record the details. It sounds like you have a problem with your mail client and Dr. Watson is telling you about it. What mail client are you using and have you noticed any problems reading your emails.

[CHAPPY1]

hi bob,
man was tat fast, i have outlook, with pop-server,no never had trouble with emails before,won't have anymore,i'll go tocontrol panel,take it out,i already have nrton internet security,so knowing what this is it'll be gone shortly,still can't figure how it got here,but i surley do appreciate your fast reply,& identification of dr watso,maybe it helped other folks also,thanking you again!!

chappy1

[CHAPPY1]

to ranger bob,
man this dr watson is elusive fellow,maybe need sherlock holmes to find him,tried to find him in control panel to eliminate him,he wasn't listed,thought he be on start up,checked there not listed,so i clicked on icon,clicked on exit dr watson,gone now,but i'm sure he'll re-appear on a fresh startup,or reboot,so where can i locate him to get rid of him altogether,should i run find dr watson,& what shows up delete it there or what??? thanks again!!!!

[Ranger Bob]

Maybe you did not understand me. Dr. Watson should only come up if you have a problem. From what you said it sounds like something happened and Dr. Watson was trying to tell you about it. I had a problem about a week ago and Dr. Watson kept coming up with an error when I did a re-boot. I could not figure out from the dump what program was causing the problem but I finally tracked it down to a program that was running in my systray that was not shutting down correctly because it needed to be updated. Once I updated the program no more problems.

[CHAPPY1]

ranger bon,
man now t seems like for sure i need sherlock,i have been having trouble with freezes,by different things not shutting down right,somtimes on a email,usually playing hearts that came with puter,will get in there & dig deeper,alls i can do is goof up things more so,guess thats how u learn,but again thanks for your help

[Donna C]

Chappy, here is a good explantion of Doctor Watson. Donna

http://www.newbiesnet.com/CallingDrWatson.htm

[CHAPPY1]

donna c

i certainly appreciate your information,sicerly thanking you

[Wildman]

Donna C; Thanks for the link, that is a new item to me. I slapped a bookmark on that one, glad I decided to check out this thread.
Ranger Bob; Thanks for the tip "he's tring to tell you something", never met him yet. But seeing as I got Windows I'm sure he will make me a house call someday.
A doctor that makes house calls now days. Thats history in the makin.
Wildman

[Donna C]

You are very welcome. Was a bit worried that Chappy might be trying to delete him, and he is a very useful thing to have. Donna

[Ranger Bob]

Originally posted by Wildman
Donna C; Thanks for the link, that is a new item to me. I slapped a bookmark on that one, glad I decided to check out this thread.
Ranger Bob; Thanks for the tip "he's tring to tell you something", never met him yet. But seeing as I got Windows I'm sure he will make me a house call someday.
A doctor that makes house calls now days. Thats history in the makin.
Wildman

Yes he makes house calls but usually when this Dr. speaks it is bad news.

[Ranger Bob]

Originally posted by Donna C
Chappy, here is a good explantion of Doctor Watson. Donna

http://www.newbiesnet.com/CallingDrWatson.htm

Donna I want to thank you for the link as well. I had a vague feel for what Dr. Watson did but this article does a very good job describing it's function.

[Donna C]

You are welcome Ranger Bob. Donna

[fred1935]

Hi there,
I too got Dr, Watson up for the very fist time a few days ago, I did know about it, not the details but am I not right in believing that Dr Watson is a part of Win 98.?? . As already mentioned I wouldn't delete it.

[CHAPPY1]

hey good people,!!!!
thanks to all who responded.guess others learned from this too,again thanks to all,yes, i did not remove dr watson,probably lucky,cause i never found where he was,so i couldn't delete him,the article donna c informed us of sure does explain it's function,glad others learned of it also!!!godd to have knowlwdgeable people helping us!!!!

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Dr Watson
Do not, delete!

If you have errors come up and in the box there is a lot of machine language you can't make any sence out of, run Dr Watson and he will give you the message of the errors in English, that you will be able to understand. Then you can trouble shoot your system acordingly. I keep him on my task bar in (quick launch), for quick access. I will tell you where he hides, do not delete, if you have 98se he is under windows/system, you can right click on him and (copy to your desktop) and then drag him to your task bar (Quick launch). He is a very usefull tool. When he is running he will be next to your clock..

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