6.1.2 The ShowInfo Entry

Some parts of the Dr. Watson failure report are disabled by default. They can be enabled with the ShowInfo entry. Following are the values you can set to enable parts of the failure report:

Value Meaning

disassembly Enable separate disassembly of the fault address. This does not affect disassembly of stack frames. (See Section 6.1.3, “The DisLen Entry.”)
errorlog Enable error logging.
locals Enable stack dump of local variable and parameter values.
modules Enable list of all loaded modules, including dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) and font files.
paramlog Enable parameter-validation error logging.
sound Enable audible warnings.

Each of the ShowInfo values can be abbreviated to its first three letters. The following example sets all six values for the ShowInfo entry, enabling those six parts of the failure report:

[Dr. Watson]

ShowInfo=dis err loc mod par sou