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To: mr.mark who wrote (7459)	12/22/1999 10:52:00 PM
From: Doug Coughlan	Read Replies (1) of 110653

Maybe Dr. Watson can help with Windows 98 crashes. I didn't know he existed in Windows 98 until tonight. :-) "Fed up with crashes? How often have you felt like complaining, "Why can't Windows figure out what's going wrong"? If you have Windows 98, Windows already can do just that. But you wouldn't know it from the look of things. The program that helps Windows figure things out is hidden away. It's called Dr. Watson. (Yes, it's named after the character in the Sherlock Holmes stories.) You might be familiar with the Dr. Watson program if you're an old-time Windows user, because it was an essential tool in the version of Windows that was popular in the old days, Windows 3.1. Microsoft left it out of Windows 95, but snuck it back into Windows 98 without making a point of it. That was dumb, because the current version of Dr. Watson is outstanding. It will tell you all kinds of things about what was running and what was acting up each time your PC crashes or acts up. Just click Start, then Run. Type "drwatson" and press Enter. Look at the menus and choose the kind of reporting you want. Dr. Watson will pop up whenever things go wrong. You can then look at the report to see the details."

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