Dr. Watson's Debugger

[Guest]

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

 

[Kayman]

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.

 

[mae]

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

| 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