What does drwtsn32.exe do ?Please help !!!Urgent

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rachitar

Journeyman
Hi
Everytime i open explorer or start windows media player they both stop responding and i have to kill the process.
In the list of processes there is this process drwtsn32.exe which was never seen before.
Is this a virus,
if so i have Norton Antivirus upto date in virus definitions and even after a full system scan,no virus is found.
Then what is it?
Please help me.
I run Win XP with SP2.
Thnx
 

it_waaznt_me

Coming back to life ..
Dr Watson is Window's debugger .. It generates debug log for admin to analyze what went wrong when a program crashed ..
 
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rachitar

Journeyman
it_waaznt_me said:
Dr Watson is Window's debugger .. It generates debug log for admin to analyze what went wrong when a program crashed ..

Can i disable it?
It seems to be causing more trouble than helping me,as it is i am not going to debug.
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Netjunkie

In the zone
Dr Watson is not a system process, its only a background process.
There are instances when Dr Watson crashes itself. :)

You can safely turn it off. See this for instructions on disabling it.

*support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;188296
 
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