Dr. Watson's Debugger

[Guest eric@triarch.com]

Whenever I open a certain folder the comp freezes and I have to close all

open windows, then the pop up says: Dr. Watson's Debugger has encountered an

error and is forces to close.. or something to that effect.

 

Any ideas? Is this a virus? It only happens occasionally and only in that

certain folder..

 

Thanks,

-eo

[Guest Kayman]

Re: Dr. Watson's Debugger

 

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:46:02 -0400, eric@triarch.com wrote:

> Whenever I open a certain folder the comp freezes and I have to close all

> open windows, then the pop up says: Dr. Watson's Debugger has encountered an

> error and is forces to close.. or something to that effect.

>

> Any ideas? Is this a virus? It only happens occasionally and only in that

> certain folder..

>

 

No, it's not a virus. It is an annoying feature which is not needed at all!

 

Disable Dr. Watson dump file creation:-

[start] [Run] [Regedit] - Browse to the following location in the left

pane:

HKEY_LOCAL-MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug

Left click on the value 'Auto' on the right pane, and change the value from

'1' to '0' Close the registry editor.

To delete the dump files created by Dr Watson on earlier occasions, you

will have to delete them manually with this procedure: In the cmd box

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson

and delete files named User.dmp and Drwtsn32log.

[Guest mae]

Re: Dr. Watson's Debugger

 

There is a download of a registry fix and an undo-fix here:

You may be prompted to send an error report for the Drwtsn32.exe debugger in

Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949820/

 

mae

 

<eric@triarch.com> wrote in message

news:059C88F0-A5DF-4BF0-BFA8-D58F39367802@microsoft.com...

| Whenever I open a certain folder the comp freezes and I have to close all

| open windows, then the pop up says: Dr. Watson's Debugger has encountered

an

| error and is forces to close.. or something to that effect.

|

| Any ideas? Is this a virus? It only happens occasionally and only in

that

| certain folder..

|

| Thanks,

| -eo