Dr Watson is more of an error reporting utility. I've never seen it even appear on the task list unless something else has failed. There's a description of Dr Watson at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308538/ .
I checked out the site and it says that :WinSock XP Fix offers a last resort if your Internet connectivity has been corrupted due to invalid or removed registry entries. I can connect to the internet it's just running my programs that is very slow. Do you think thatthis may help?
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Are you saying to empty the Restore folder? I guess that will erase any restore points that have been set. Last week I restored it to about a month ago. That didn't help so I reversed the restore. But I ran adaware, spy sweeper and my AVG anti virus. For some reason that helped. About 2 days later when I booted up, spy sweeper came up with a file trying to access the internet, it looked lik an HP file. I have a hP printer so I thought it was the HP software so I clicked OK. I think that is how my problems started again.
OK, so you are saying to delete everything in the prefetch folder?
My C; Drive is a 40gb IDE drive and is not partitioned. I have two other drives, 2 - 250gb SATA drives that are partitioned and striped so the system reads them as one drive that I use for my programs and storage. If I do reformat the C: drive I don't think that I will be partitioning it as I will be using it for Windows, e-mail and my spyware/virus programs. What do you mean by "Reload" re-installing windows?
Thanks again,
It might be helpful if you had the exact name of the file. Does your spy sweeper maintain a log somewhere that you could look it up?
Yes it will, I say this so that none of the checkers find things it cannot repair within the restore points.
es it will not hurt anything.
You need to delete the c: partition to completely erease it. It could have a boot sector issue.
Placing the CD in the CD deive and complete reinstall of the OS. Not a repair/
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I See. Ok I'll give it a try. Also When I just booted up I got an error message that jmy AVG Firewall was not running. I opened it and it is running but I checked on the applications that it had in the log and the Dr Watson was being blocked. I changed it to allow it to run and now my cpu isn't running at such a high rate, now in the 40-50% range total. The process now using up more cpu power is changing between avgw.exe and System Idle Process. It keeps changing back and forth.
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Hi Guy,
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Guy, I think this may be the file, here is a line from my spysweeper logg from last Monday at 7:15PM. I think thatis about the time I allowed it.:
I ran it and there were some error messages while trying to back up my registry. Anyway after the reboot I now get an error message that my AVG Firewall is disabled. When I try to re-activate it I get this error message "An error occured while starting AVG Firewall. This operation returned because the timeout period expired. (1460)"
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