Jim wrote:
>Recently half the time I boot I get the following window: "DrWatson
>Postmortem Debugger has encountered a problem and needs to close...." >>


First thing with any troubleshooting---disconnect phone line and take 
everything out of your startups, including firewall and anti-virus.  If 
that fixes the problem, trial and error will eventually identify the 
culprit, often after many hours of sweat.

Sometimes it's quicker, and always better, just to save any data which you 
might have on the C-Drive to another partition and reformat the 
C-partition. It's the only way to really clean out all the crud which 
accumulates over time.

Sounds like a driver unable to load---either missing or corrupted.  If it 
boots OK into Safe mode and runs OK, then there's probably some 
non-essential driver gumming up the works or maybe 2 pieces of software 
trying to load which are incompatible with each other (Nortons is notorious 
for that).

Try an XP repair reinstall.

Don Penlington


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