Annoying!!!

**DCDAOmega** · October 16th, 2004, 12:43 AM

every time i right click on a file on my hd this annoying little program called drwatsn(which stands for Dr. Watson) appears and freezes up computer! I found the file in the Windows\system32 directory, unfortunatly it opens itself when i try to deleted.

someone please stop the insanity!

**cryptoguy** · October 16th, 2004, 06:59 AM

So cntrl-alt-delete doesn't work either?

**kintypoo121** · October 16th, 2004, 07:08 AM

u might need to reformat your hdd altogether, sounds like a nasty program!

**muno** · October 16th, 2004, 07:16 AM

dr watson appears because there's something wrong with your computer.

It's been part of windows since 95 or nt4.

**mike047** · October 16th, 2004, 07:55 AM

Somewhere on this site is the cure for that. I used it after I installed service pac 2. It involves a registry change of some sort..........I just followed the instructions and have had no events since.

mike

**Patrick** · October 16th, 2004, 10:46 AM

Found this with Google:
I don't know why your explorer.exe is crashing, but I would think that there is something wrong in your system files.
What I do know on the other hand is that DrWtsn is the windows-error handling program. When explorer crashes, it automatically logs errors and other information about what happened to a specific place.

Don't delete it.

If it came back automatically you're a lucky b---tard

To see where "Dr Watson" stores it's logfiles, open the start menu and choose "Run".
Type drwtsn32 in the box and hit enter.

There is also a helpfile in there that you can use.

A reinstallation would most probably fix all your problems, so good luck with whatever you do!

**DCDAOmega** · October 23rd, 2004, 11:07 AM

yeah i deleted it and it came back, i think its an issue in service pack 2 but i didnt have any problems when i first installed it. Ill try to find that registry tweak on the site.