CAUTION: This article contains information about opening or modifying the registry.
- The following information is intended for System Administrators. Registry modifications are irreversible and could cause system failure if done incorrectly.
- Before proceeding, Technical Support strongly recommends that you back up your registry and understand the restore process. For more information, see the Microsoft Windows registry information for advanced users article.
- Do not run a REG file that is not confirmed to be a genuine registry import file.
Sometimes you have to capture the state of a process when a failure occurs that results in the process being terminated. The default debugger in Microsoft Windows is
Dr.
Watson (
DrWtsn32.exe), which you can configure to capture the state of the process when the crash occurs with other tools such as
DebugDiag and
ADPlus.vbs.
When collecting User Mode information, we recommend that you use the following tools in preference to
Dr. Watson: