Luckydogdad Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 I really like CCleaner, and have used it on my XP Home system for about 6 months. Sometimes now, I'm getting scans that start and then seem to just freeze. Some at 84%, some at 88%, and the latest one at 9%. There's disk activity, but no advance of the progress bars. After about a minute of no progress, I do a ctrl-alt-del, and the task manager shows two DrWatson.exe processes running. When I click on end process for those, it blows away Ccleaner. This may not at all be CCleaner's fault, since I had to go through some heavy duty anti-virus repairs, and spyware repairs to my system over the holidays. I may have a setting out of whack from that. CCleaner doesn't always work like it used to, and I miss that. Any ideas, or is this a bug? UPDATE -- I just ran the scan for issues again, and it quickly reached 100%. It also let me fix the 3 minor issues it found. This is good, but I'm curious about the Dr Watson issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krit86lr Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 I really like CCleaner, and have used it on my XP Home system for about 6 months. Sometimes now, I'm getting scans that start and then seem to just freeze. Some at 84%, some at 88%, and the latest one at 9%. There's disk activity, but no advance of the progress bars. After about a minute of no progress, I do a ctrl-alt-del, and the task manager shows two DrWatson.exe processes running. When I click on end process for those, it blows away Ccleaner. This may not at all be CCleaner's fault, since I had to go through some heavy duty anti-virus repairs, and spyware repairs to my system over the holidays. I may have a setting out of whack from that. CCleaner doesn't always work like it used to, and I miss that. Any ideas, or is this a bug? UPDATE -- I just ran the scan for issues again, and it quickly reached 100%. It also let me fix the 3 minor issues it found. This is good, but I'm curious about the Dr Watson issue. You can google "Dr. Watson", and get a lot of information. Dr. Watson for Windows starts automatically when a program error occurs. You can configure Dr. Watson: Run > drwtsn32 > click OK. It seems like CCleaner is working out for you now. As for Dr. Watson it isn't really a big deal. I personally uncheck "Crash Dump File" as my only configuration. Supposedly, the public can access your information that is dumped into that file. But, I do stress "supposedly". There is a lot of information on the topic. K Windows Pro Media 8.1 x64 | 8GB Ram | 500G HDD 7200 RPM | All that I know about my graphics is that it's Intel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobrakommander56 Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 I had a virus in my system, that hid under drwatson, one was legit and the other was a virus. Insert random C4 joke here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krit86lr Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 I had a virus in my system, that hid under drwatson, one was legit and the other was a virus. Yes, that is one of the many possible associations with Dr. Watson. It's worth keeping an eye on it every so often. K Windows Pro Media 8.1 x64 | 8GB Ram | 500G HDD 7200 RPM | All that I know about my graphics is that it's Intel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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