The Saga of my DrWatson Postmortem Debugger
I am having some problems with my laptop for some weeks now. About 3 weeks ago, my 2-year subscription to McAfee expired and I didn’t renew it anymore - a bit expensive for me now that we’re in a tight budget. So I opted to download free AVG after the man in PC warehouse told me to just try the free edition when I went there to ask how much is Norton antivirus - Php2,500 for a year, a bit cheaper compared to Mcafee, but still won’t fit our budget.
Anyways, after installing AVG, I also installed Trend Micro coz it said in the net that it was good in cleaning up those spywares and trojans. However, after installing it some pop ups kept on coming out about the adware Trend Micro found out in my system. Thinking that it was an spyware or something that I don’t really needed, I deleted the file, I forgot the name, but at least my Trend Micro stopped bugging me about it.
After a day of deleting the file, I tried to open some of our old pictures in Melbourne but the windows explorer would always freeze and close then I’d get a message that says, “Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and need to close…..”. It was then followed by another message, “DrWatson Postmortem Debugger has encountered an error….” That’s how I met DrWatson Postmortem Debugger.
Helpless, I searched google on what it is about, and adding more to my frustration there are lots of sites and forum that talk about it, but with multiple ways of solving it. I think I had a headache that morning reading those posts. At least I found out that almost every man using Windows XP like me have the same dilemma as mine. I tried some of the solutions posted by those computer geeks, but nothing corrected my problem. I ended up uninstalling my Trend Micro but the problem persisted. I still couldn’t open those picture subfolders.
All of my document folders are working fine and I was only having problem with those two subfolders containing our old pictures in Melbourne and some of our earlier pics here last year. I have re-saved those pics before using Paint so that the bytes would be smaller. For sentimental reasons, I was really desperate to retrieve those precious pictures again.
So this morning, while I was thinking of what to write here, I thought of opening those subfolders again. Silently I was praying that hopefully the problem’s not there anymore - hehe, God knows everything right? So probably He’s a computer geek, too! But when I clicked a subfolder, I encountered the same errors. Getting frustrated again, I don’t know what gotten into me, I just copied a picture sub-subfolder (hehe, because its under my Edited Pictures subfolder, which is under My Pictures folder) to the main My Pictures folder. Wheeewww, lots of folders there. Then, I clicked the copied folder and voila!!!! I was able to open my pictures!!!
Amazed, I initially thought it could just be pure coincidence so I copied another sub-subfolder up to the My Pictures folder, then opened the contents again. No more problems! Afterwards, I copied all the pictures sub-subfolders to a separate new folder under My Documents to sort them out, and all seems working fine now! Hayy, problem solved! Hmmm, I was thinking the cause of my problem was because I deleted those adware found by Trend Micro. Well, now that my picture folders are working properly I don’t care anymore as long as those DrWatson messages won’t pop out again! Now I know (or maybe just in my case) DrWatson doesn’t like so many sub-sub-sub folders.hehe.
Oooops, before I forget, I just wanna say thanks to the Mighty One up there. Don’t know where that copying idea came from, I know its from You. Now I know for sure You’re a computer geek!!!!
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