help to stop bebugger

[promicro]

Hi all,

I am running Win 2K sp4 and every time I have a program halt and want to
close it thru the task manager I get the message 'program cannot be closed.
it is being debugged. resume or close debugger.' the only way for me to get
out of this situation is to reboot - nothing else will get past it.

how can I find and permanently close this debugger ???

thanks to all for saving my sanity...

rob

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

promicro fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

Hi all,

I am running Win 2K sp4 and every time I have a program halt and want
to close it thru the task manager I get the message 'program cannot
be closed. it is being debugged. resume or close debugger.' the only
way for me to get out of this situation is to reboot - nothing else
will get past it.

how can I find and permanently close this debugger ???

thanks to all for saving my sanity...

rob

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...s/2000/server/reskit/en-us/regentry/11498.asp

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;188296

 

[George Hester]

That is a misleading message. Really has nothing to do with a debugger.
Normally this happens when a program is trying to close it cannot and you
try to force it close during this. That message comes up. I would look in
the Task Manager for an application that is not responding or one that is
taking an inordinate amount of CPU%. That is where your issue lies.