Dr. Watson is an application debugger included with the Microsoft Windows operating system. It may be named drwatson.exe, drwtsn32.exe or dwwin.exe, depending on the version of Windows.
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How to immediately terminate crashed application?
I have an application that sometimes causes exceptions. And I need to restart it if it crashed. But the problem is, that I have Windows 7 here and when application crashes, Windows shows me nice dialog box with a suggestion to close the application.…

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WinDbg Dr. Watson minidump - requires pdb/dll originally built for installed version?
I have a mindmp file from a target's application crash. Is it possible for me to rebuild the dll/pdb files for a version of software and have windbg load symbols correctly?
My problem is that our pdb files are only kept for major releases…

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does user.dmp contain only the most recent crash
I wanted to know if the "user.dmp" created by drwtsn32 has only the most recent crash.
I tried to capture a few crashes. But when i tried to analyse it, I just see one crash.
Thanks for the help,
Arun

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