RE: DrWatson crashing my computer

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Please check your Event Viewer for any error messages. Go to Start...Control
Panel...Administrative Tools and select Event Viewer. Scroll through the
logs around the time that the last crash happened and jot down the
information to post here.

Also, you could post the information from the DrWatson log file.

"anthony_cook" wrote:

> Hello to all.
> First let me just say that I am not very computer literate when it comes to
> checking coding and event logs etc so I apologise in advance if I don't get
> your suggestions right the first time.
>
> OK here it is, as easily explained as I can make it: recently when having
> Internet Explorer open in the background, clicking on the desktop forces my
> cursor to change to that horrible hour glass for about 20-30 seconds, then I
> get an error message saying "DrWatson postmortem debugger has encountered a
> problem and must close". I then proceed to click send error report. It sends
> then my computer freezes up and thats that. I have to manually restart it.
> This has only happened recently and is becoming quite tedious.
> I know that DrWatson has something to do with saving files or recording the
> script errors before the computer crashes (i think :s ) but thats where it
> gets too complicated for me
> Please help
> --
> Thank you
.



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