Dr Watson Post Mortem Debugger? Wads this?

• Borntolive.

  15 Mar 08, 22:45

  hi guys i am curious to know wads this Dr Watson Post Mortem Debugger?

  Whenever i use "Paint"  to edit a picture and close the program, it hangs n this msg pops up " Dr. Watson Post Mortem Debugger has encountered an error and needs to quit".

  Funny thing is when i use "Paint" to draw something n close nothing happens. Only when i use "Paint" to edit a pict then the error msg comes out.

   

  I did some readings and apparantly its safe any comments?

• ceecookie

  15 Mar 08, 22:46

  its a virus..

   

   

  jkjk

  Its the Windows Error Reporting Agent for Windows XP.

• Xcert

  15 Mar 08, 22:49

  Originally posted by Borntolive.:

  hi guys i am curious to know wads this Dr Watson Post Mortem Debugger?

  Whenever i use "Paint"  to edit a picture and close the program, it hangs n this msg pops up " Dr. Watson Post Mortem Debugger has encountered an error and needs to quit".

  Funny thing is when i use "Paint" to draw something n close nothing happens. Only when i use "Paint" to edit a pict then the error msg comes out.

   

  I did some readings and apparantly its safe any comments?

  Dr Watson is something that Microsoft programmers came up with.

• Borntolive.

  15 Mar 08, 22:53

  so that means my "Paint " program got prob? whenever i use it to edit a picture n when i close "Paint" , it hangs n this  Dr Watson thingy comes up.

• ndmmxiaomayi

  15 Mar 08, 22:54

  Dr Watson is a program by MS that will handle all your crashes if something crash. Those logs can then be sent to MS or posted on any forums for somebody to analyze.

• Borntolive.

  15 Mar 08, 23:01

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  Dr Watson is a program by MS that will handle all your crashes if something crash. Those logs can then be sent to MS or posted on any forums for somebody to analyze.

  yup read about it then it means my "paint" prog got prob? i cant seem to use "paint" to edit pictures i saved on my PC, cause when i close "paint", the pc hangs n dr watson popped up . i got no probs with other programs

• ndmmxiaomayi

  15 Mar 08, 23:46

  Originally posted by Borntolive.:

  yup read about it then it means my "paint" prog got prob? i cant seem to use "paint" to edit pictures i saved on my PC, cause when i close "paint", the pc hangs n dr watson popped up . i got no probs with other programs

  Yes... try finding a replacement copy in the dllcache folder of Windows. Default is at C:\Windows\system32\dllcache

  Then copy and paste it over to C:\Windows folder.

  Show hidden files and folders first.

• Borntolive.

  16 Mar 08, 01:00

  ok thks lets see if i can do it