How to shut down Dr Watson program?
Tim
Southwest PA Icrontian
I just reloaded a Dell 2350 with its original XP SP1 CD on a full reformat / reload of everything on the hard drive. and Dr. Watson is being a real pain in the ass already.
Aside from the operating system, I installed my usual antivirus programs and codec packages, so perhaps one of them has something that makes Dr. Watson go crazy?
I tried deleting the icons (couple dozen KB each) files from the system 32 folder, but they came back on the next restart. I restarted the computer, and am looking at Task Manager. After the computer was on for a minute or 2, Dr. Watson started using 99% of the CPU, and the memory usage is steadily increasing by several MB per minute. It's gone from 20 MB to over 100 MB of RAM usage in the last 15 minutes or so. 5 minutes later, it's now over 150 MB!
If it were my computer and there were no other way to fix it, I'd just shut down the process and continue on, but this computer is for someone else, and he's an idiot. He wouldn't understand why he has to go into Task Manager and shut down this one process every time he restarts the computer, and I don't have the patience to explain it to him.
My own computer, loaded with all the same programs has never had this Dr. Watson problem, and the system I'm working on hasn't even been connected to the internet yet, so it's not a virus. Perhaps some of the free download antivirus programs and codec packages have something in them, but I've used this same software setup on literally dozens of other systems and never had this problem before.
So, how to fix it?
Aside from the operating system, I installed my usual antivirus programs and codec packages, so perhaps one of them has something that makes Dr. Watson go crazy?
I tried deleting the icons (couple dozen KB each) files from the system 32 folder, but they came back on the next restart. I restarted the computer, and am looking at Task Manager. After the computer was on for a minute or 2, Dr. Watson started using 99% of the CPU, and the memory usage is steadily increasing by several MB per minute. It's gone from 20 MB to over 100 MB of RAM usage in the last 15 minutes or so. 5 minutes later, it's now over 150 MB!
If it were my computer and there were no other way to fix it, I'd just shut down the process and continue on, but this computer is for someone else, and he's an idiot. He wouldn't understand why he has to go into Task Manager and shut down this one process every time he restarts the computer, and I don't have the patience to explain it to him.
My own computer, loaded with all the same programs has never had this Dr. Watson problem, and the system I'm working on hasn't even been connected to the internet yet, so it's not a virus. Perhaps some of the free download antivirus programs and codec packages have something in them, but I've used this same software setup on literally dozens of other systems and never had this problem before.
So, how to fix it?
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EDIT: whats dr.watson called in task manager so i can close it out?
After finishing my installation, getting all the SP2 updates in place, and running all the antivirus / antispyware programs through for the first time, it's not showing up in Task Manager anymore. I left the computer running all night and restarted it several times today and haven't seen it come back.