Why is Vidalia trying to launch dwwin.exe?

phobos at rootme.org phobos at rootme.org
Tue Oct 24 03:07:38 UTC 2006


On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 12:28:14PM +0000, rdsmit at hotmail.com wrote 0.9K bytes in 15 lines about:
: Vidalia apparently tried to launch dwwin.exe, which is apparently the name 
: of Microsoft's Doctor Watson error reporting tool.  Does Vidalia utilize 
: Doctor Watson to report errors that occur during its operation?  If so, how 

	I believe this is completely dependent upon your configuration.
	You can configure your system to not launch Dr. Watson on
	process crash, and not send anything to MS.  

	In XP, this is easier to do via System Properties.  Reg hacks
	are required in W2k and WinNT4.

-- 
Andrew



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