Postmortem Debugger Needs To Close
Aug 16, 2008
I have been having problems with my screen freezing (first the screensaver froze - I turned it off, then the cursor froze - requires reset, every few hours). The last time this happened I also got a message saying "Dr Watson postmortem debugger has encountered an error and needs to close". Where do I start looking to solve this? Ive run Memtest - all clear (both channels, both modules). I did have an intermittent "Computer wont start" problem that I traced to an ill-fitting long plug on the motherboard - re-seated. A while back I installed Hijack This to problem solve something else but have since forgotten how to use it . I assume my system is producing logs of all this, but where do I look for them?
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Feb 7, 2005
I am using a Dell Computer with windows xp. My problem is every time I click My Documents, My Pictures, or just about anything on the right side in the start nenu the message, "Dr. Watson Postmortem Debugger has a problem and needs to close." Send report, don't send. No matter what I hit the arrow&hour glass appears and the computer freezes up, and I have to use Task Manager to restart. I've tried System Restore, but it says It has no resore point, but the programs in start menu work in safe mode. Can anyone help me with Dr. Watson please?
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Mar 19, 2005
After leaving my computer turned off for spring break, I returned to find a few things wrong with it. First, the little red alert from microsoft was in the corner saying that I had suspicious activity on my computer. Second, none of my folders will open. If I double-click a folder, the computer freezes for about 30 seconds, the desktop blinks, and I get the above error message, and I still can't open folders. I ran a virus scan and pulled up a good 7 infected files, but deleted them all and restarted...same problem. I also ran a spyware program and found the same spyware that I've had for a few months now, so I don't think that's the problem. I tried restarting in safe mode and folders open perfectly, with no problems.
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Sep 10, 2005
I have read everything I could find in this group on Dr watson, I still do not know WHAt he is and why he is there,,,,I was told he was spyware and should be deleted out of the pc. Did that, he came back! It says it is from Microsoft, can ANYONE tell the answeres to the what and why about this little dr man.
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Feb 22, 2005
I had the following problem while logging on to my computer (Windows XP) this morning: While starting up I get an error message saying Windows Explorer must shut down (with the option of sending an error message to MS) even though WE was never open to begin with. When I try to open anything up, like IE or Word I get an error message from Dr Watson Postmortem Debugger saying something about it needing to close (can't remember exactly since I'm at work now). The computer then freezes up and I have to Ctrl-Alt-Delete out. I ran McAfee Virus Scan and it discovered I had a trojan (netpals). It was apparently cleaned but when I tried opening something up I got the same error messages.I cannot open any programs using my Start menu or clicking on the desktop icon.
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Dec 19, 2009
How I Reomove it?
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Oct 6, 2006
Windows Explorer keeps crashing on me, so when I click on 'send error report' DR Watson Postmortem debugger comes on, but that locks up too. So, I end up having to end Dr Watson's task to unlock the programs and get everything done. Some days I never need to do it, but some days (like today), I've had to do this repeatedly, like, seven times within an eight hour period.
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Sep 16, 2005
I do not know what's going on, in the middle of surfing tend to receive an error message:'DrWatson Postmortem Debugger has encountered a problem and needs to close.Please tell Microsoft about this problem' which prompts me to send error report.Sometimes I also receive internet explorer error report similar to the above.May I know what is wrong and how do I eliminate such errors from my computer?Please recommend a useful tool/program for curbing these problems.I am running on windows XP and internet explorer 5.
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Nov 13, 2006
As I was trying to remove something from my system, I got an error message referencing "Dr. Watson Postmortem debugger." I did a quick google, and it looks like this might be something that's malicious. I'm posting a HiJack This log below; BTW, I'm running Windows XP Media Center Rollback 2.
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 7:31:35 PM, on 11/13/2006
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.5730.0011)
Running processes:
C:WINDOWSSystem32smss.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32winlogon.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32services.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32lsass.exe...............
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Dec 9, 2006
Each time i go into a particular folder i get either the message, program can not respond or i get dr watson postmortem debugger.I would like to lnow why this it and how i can reslove it, if i go into one folder all other ones are ok.
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Mar 5, 2005
I recieved an error message saying: Error Loading EGDACCESS 1057_dll What does that mean? In plain English please. Also said something about DrWatson Postmortem Debugger.
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Jul 28, 2007
I cant open some of my desktop icons and I cant get into my computer and control panel by icon or start up button. Every time I try a message pops up that reads Data Execution Prevention. When I close the window it asks me either to send message or it reads Dr Watson Postmortern Debugger. Then it will either completly seize up or do a quick explorer reboot where all the icons and task bar will disapear and then reapear. I have searched for all pests, viruses, trojans, malware, viruses etc with, spybot, trend micro house call, ca e-trust antivirus, ad aware and it comes up clean.
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Jul 7, 2010
I randomly receive the "DR Waston postmortem debugger has encountered an error and must close" error when browsing with explorer.exe. This freezes up whatever folder I was looking through and forces me to eliminate it using task manager.
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Dec 24, 2005
Recently I have received a problem where I can't open a folder that has a gigabyte or more space used. I have several folders that contain a little less than a gb and they open and let me do what I want without any problems. When I open a folder with a gb or more it opens and lets me see the files and then I get a Windows Explorer popup saying that Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to shut down, I clicked the error report and this is what it says: AppName: explorer.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.2180 ModName: filesystemflags.dll
ModVer: 1.0.0.1 Offset: 00002ddd
And when I close the Windows popup I get a Dr. Watson Postmortem Debugger popup and I clicked the error report but it won't let me read the details, so I have to Ctl, Alt, Del to close the non-responsive program.I have scanned the computer for virses and spyware and came up negative on both of those, so I don't know what is wrong or what to do to fix this. I have previously had folders with several gb's used when I was storing video to transfer to dvd and I never had this problem.
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Sep 17, 2005
In the middle of surfing tend to receive an error message:'DrWatson Postmortem Debugger has encountered a problem and needs to close.Please tell Microsoft about this problem' which prompts me to send error report.Sometimes I also receive internet explorer error report similar to the above.May I know what is wrong and how do I eliminate such errors from my computer?Please recommend a useful tool/program for curbing these problems.I am running on windows XP and internet explorer v6.
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Mar 3, 2005
I downloaded sp2, but now I have thie Dr Watson Posmortem debugger window that opens on restart and my whole system freezes---I can't even close the Dr Watson window. What is this and how do I get rid of it?My system was virus and spyware free.
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Aug 26, 2007
My problem is that when right click any file not folder just file my pc hangs and stop working and after sometime it give error "DrWatson Postmortem Debugger has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."
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Aug 26, 2007
when i right click on any file it says "The Instruction at "0*02e544db" referenced memory at "0*0000000". The memory could not be written"
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Jul 7, 2005
Long time since I posted for help but right now I have the Windows Explorer message Winows explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. Sorry for the inconvenience. in the middle of my screen It appears on boot and remains there .If I click close ,the desktop icons disappear and reappear and the message also reappears several seconds later,In those few seconds things seem to operate normally but after it appears, things on the screen just blink once when I click on them and nothing else happens. If I click something , and then click close on the message, it clears the desktop and reappears the previous click is then executed and the lockup is back .I can do things one at a time by repeating this closing process and the application on the screen does not close but reappears also
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Aug 24, 2005
I have recently updated XP pro to SP2. I am having a problem now right-clicking files anywhere on my system. Windows will hang and give me an error about "Dr. Watson postmortem has caused an error and needs to close". After waiting a minute or two explorer.exe will close and open again and I receive an event id 1002 saying "The shell stopped unexpectedly and Explorer.exe was restarted."
What makes this even weirder is that I can right click on shortcuts and other desktop icons with no problem, its just when I right click files no matter where they are either on the desktop or somewhere on the harddrive. I have uninstalled SP2 and tried to see if the problem went away and yes it did. I then reinstalled SP2 again and the problem is back!
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Mar 13, 2007
I have recently installed new hard drives...then did a clean install of windows xp-When ever I open a folde(any olr) and click on a file in that folder, that folder freezes (not responding) I have to CTRL-ALT-DEL to close that folder--Its driving me INSANE. It only does this with open folders occassionally I recieve a message saying DR WATSON POSTMORTEM DEBUGGER HAS ENCOUNTED AN ERROR AND NEEDS TO CLOSE I really dont feel like reformatting again.
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Dec 23, 2004
About a week ago I ran windows update and did all of the updates avalible to me. Since then i've found that whenever i'm surfing the net, windows often loads up an error dialog which says that Code: 'A runtime error has occured. Do you wish to debug? line 120 Error 'null' is null or not an object.[yes] [No]I know this is prob due to a script error on the site, but the dubugger is rather annoying, and i'd like to get rid of it as it pops up far too often.
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Mar 23, 2005
I got a message that there was a problem with my "Dr Watson Debugger".
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Jun 30, 2005
After setting up a system running Windows XP Pro with the user set to be a member of the Administrators group, that spontaneously changes so the user is a member of the "Debugger Users" group. I wonder if anyone else has come across this, and if he knows why it occurs. It isn't generally a problem, but it does cause some problems at times with some of the software we use which requires the user be an Administrator. I think it gets changed when running windows updates, but I'm not sure.
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Sep 15, 2005
Running MS XP/AOL/Norton System Works/Firewall. Past few weeks have been plagued by a window that opens, intermittantly, when reading email. Can't determine if it is a windows, Norton or virus/adware item, altho Norton, spybot, etc don't show any problems in that respect. The only thing I can't get rid of is a "first ave" request to download. Had that forever but seems to be a dormant item. Anyway. the window opens and reads : Just in time debugger.Please select a debugger. Possible debuggers... New instance of MS script editor. Then there is a checkbox to set current debugger as default. Below are two buttons asking if want to debug using selected debugger. Clicking "X" or no eight (8) times exits the window, usually not to return on that email but sometimes it does. Clicking yes shows some text (HTML?) or code or something with a few words "break" visable.
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Mar 4, 2005
how I can turn the debugger off or disable it. I am wanting to convert a video from one format to another and keep getting a message to turn debugger off. But can't find how to do it.
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Dec 26, 2004
We have 2 users set up on Windows XP. One of the users works well. When I log on to the other user, I get this message: "Dr Watson Postmortem Debugger has encountered a problem and needs to close". I have tried clicking on "Send Error Report" and "Don't send". It freezes up that side of the computer and won't do anything.
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Sep 6, 2005
Dr Watson postmortem debugger error in SP2 when trying to access external usb2 drives? Specifically large video files. The drive freezes completely.I have two external drives on a hub, and have one on an alternate port. I've split them and tested separately, to no avail. Also tried uninstalling usb drivers, running norton/adaware/spybot because I read something about a virus. Never had a speed or freeze issue in SP1 running HUGE videos, or editing software from multiple disks.I only see a few suspects on hijackthis log (a second dr watson?), but don't know enough - and I'm curious whether SP2 might be the culprit.
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Dec 6, 2007
I am having problems whenever I leave my computer for more than a couple of hours.When I come back to it, it is sluggish or completely frozen and has to be rebooted.Then I am having trouble with only certain web sites running extremely slowly while most others run normally in IE7.As for my computer, it is 2 1/2 years old.It is a Gateway 3 GHz with 1 GB RAM, running XP Media Center.I also have an HP 3GHz with 2GB RAM with XP Media Center that I try to keep running for my husband, and a whole room full of ancient obsolete machines dating all the way back to windows 95.The HP is only 6 months old refurb.The two are networked together with a Netgear wireless router using the wired ports and Cox broadband access.They are firewalled behind the router and additionally, using Zone Alarm Pro.I am running the full suite of Zone Alarm security products including firewall virus protection and spyware removal tool on both.In addition I am running Webroot spyware removal tool on both and AOL spyware removal tool (which is due to expire soon.)All utilities run daily on both machines separately.Automatic updates for Windows is enabled on the HP because my husband can't be bothered with updates.On the Gateway I have the alerts enabled with the option to download and install windows updates at my discretion.
About two months ago, despite all the security software I have in place, two Trojans were discovered in the Gateway machine.Stupid me, instead of leaving them in quarantine, I deleted them, taking out a piece of my boot sector where they must have embedded themselves.It was telling me that the NTLDR file was missing among other things.I had been guilty of not doing regular backups and had an enormous amount of data on my hard drive.I had already purchased a large external storage unit including auto backup software with good intentions and then put it in the closet unopened for several months to be dealt with at a later date.At the first hint of trouble before deleting the Trojans I quickly dumped my documents and photos into my husbands computer, and just in time because I could not even boot into safe mode after I lost boot capability, and the machine was stuck in a continuous restart cycle.
I disabled the restart on boot failure option in setup and tried the System Restore option to try and repair the windows files, but it would not allow me to choose the non destructive restore option. It kept warning me that all my files would be deleted and gave me no other option than to say OK. Then at that point I would have to shut down the machine to get out of that screen and avoid starting the restore. I have an XP pro upgrade version disk that I purchased a few years back, but I can never get the files to all copy correctly for a clean windows install and I didn't know if it would repair a windows installation that had a restore partition loaded on the same hard drive.
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Jan 31, 2006
After installing a couple of programs I was receiving this "Application has generated an exception that could not be handled" it asks to press ok to terminate and cancel to debug. Once I press cancel to debug it comes up with "No debugger found. Registed JIT debugger is not available. An attempt to launch a JIT debugger with the following command resulted in an error code of 0x2(2). Please check computer settings." How do I fix this problem? I am running a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop with WinXP Home.
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Apr 25, 2007
I have Been getting errors and think that this may be a problem.(drwatson) I know what it is and what its for. I have done some research and attemted a few things before coming here.
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