unrealwarfare
11-25-2004, 04:38 AM
Hello, all.
I've been having some problems with Windows XP with SP2 recently. Well not recently, for about 2 months now. When I boot my computer, and try to right-click on any file/folder on the desktop or in windows explorer, first error message comes up:
"Windows explorer will need to close: send error message/don't send".
I press Don't send. Next message comes up:
"Dr.Watson will need to close: send message/don't send". Don't send.
Then it freezes. The only way to get out of this is to end task explorer.exe.... or if this crash happens if I click on a file/folder on the desktop, I have to end task dr.watson. And in both cases, on the screen, the taskbar dissappears, and quickly reappears bringing it back to the normal state. But I can't right-click on anything anyway, again. Sometimes... after I awhile... for some unknown reason, I'll be able to right-click.... and it won't crash. It's weird.
And also, it never crashes if I right-click on My Computer/Recycle Bin... things like that. Also crashes if I right-click on my C drive.
I've read some things about this issue on the net... but it doesn't seem to help. I found some things on another forum that if you have Divx installed... you would need the newest one to be compatible with SP2... so I downloaded 5.21#... and it said it would fix this right-click issue, but it didn't. Also tried fiddling with registry... didn't work.
Also, this issue started happening before I installed SP2...
I am trying to think of what I could have installed that makes it crash.
If anyone experienced this problem before... especially after installing a particular program, let me know please, and if I have that program, I will remove it.
Also, I tried scanning for viruses/spyware, and it's all clean. Windows up to date. Also have Microsoft net framework 1.1... I'm having doubts about this one...
Any response is appreciated.
Regards.
I've been having some problems with Windows XP with SP2 recently. Well not recently, for about 2 months now. When I boot my computer, and try to right-click on any file/folder on the desktop or in windows explorer, first error message comes up:
"Windows explorer will need to close: send error message/don't send".
I press Don't send. Next message comes up:
"Dr.Watson will need to close: send message/don't send". Don't send.
Then it freezes. The only way to get out of this is to end task explorer.exe.... or if this crash happens if I click on a file/folder on the desktop, I have to end task dr.watson. And in both cases, on the screen, the taskbar dissappears, and quickly reappears bringing it back to the normal state. But I can't right-click on anything anyway, again. Sometimes... after I awhile... for some unknown reason, I'll be able to right-click.... and it won't crash. It's weird.
And also, it never crashes if I right-click on My Computer/Recycle Bin... things like that. Also crashes if I right-click on my C drive.
I've read some things about this issue on the net... but it doesn't seem to help. I found some things on another forum that if you have Divx installed... you would need the newest one to be compatible with SP2... so I downloaded 5.21#... and it said it would fix this right-click issue, but it didn't. Also tried fiddling with registry... didn't work.
Also, this issue started happening before I installed SP2...
I am trying to think of what I could have installed that makes it crash.
If anyone experienced this problem before... especially after installing a particular program, let me know please, and if I have that program, I will remove it.
Also, I tried scanning for viruses/spyware, and it's all clean. Windows up to date. Also have Microsoft net framework 1.1... I'm having doubts about this one...
Any response is appreciated.
Regards.