Getting Dr. Watson post mortem messages

trickster · Feb 14, 2005

Suddenly, whenever I click on a folder on my desktop, including My Computer, Recycle Bin etc., the system hangs for a few seconds and a Dr. Watson appears in Task Manager/Processes. If I manually end the process, the system comes back to life or if I wait until a popup window with a Dr. Watson message, i can close that and continue working. However, I cannot figure out a way to open these affected items.

My only theory is that this COULD have been timed with a windows update i did recently (possibly SP2 but not sure). Also, I recently cleaned A LOT of spyware from my system and seem to be real clean right now.

Any ideas on this would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Todd

trickster · Feb 14, 2005

Sorry, forgot to mention that I am running XP pro on a Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop with 512 mb ram.

mixer421 · Mar 23, 2008

Sorry I can't help as I'm having similar problems.:confused Getting the same message when I try to close IE7 and open control panel. Read a lot on here but nothing that helps. I hope this re-activates the question

DavidGP · Mar 23, 2008

Hi Mixer421

Please start a new thread if your having a similar issue as this one is from 2005 and not likely to be re-activated. Also Dr Watsons debugger deals will many crashes so your issue maybe different to the above one.

Do please post as much information about your issue as you can like:

Windows version and Service Pack.
What you have done already to try and fix this.
When did it first start, did it hgappen after you installed some new software
Are you malware free

Many thanks

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