On 20 Feb 2007 at 10:08, Jim wrote:

>    Recently half the time I boot I get the following window: "DrWatson 
> Postmortem Debugger has encountered a problem and needs to close."  The 
> "Detail" button does not reveal anything comprehensible - to me, at least. 
> Just code gook.  

  This program is the one that is supposed to collect details when some 
other application crashes.  Not a good sign!

>     I have XP Pro on a 8 year old Dell. Anyone have a suggestion??

  I'm not sure that Dell was making any machines 8 years ago that met the 
minimum system requirements for XP.  RAM?  CPU?  Do you see the disk 
activity light on a lot?  I'm guessing it may be spending far too much of 
the time shuffling virtual memory items between RAM and disk....

David Gillett

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