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#1 OFFLINE   envirossf

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Posted 24 August 2007 - 08:55 PM

Hi Everyone,

I've got a problem deleting a string that shows up when I analyze and attempt to clean. The line is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson\user.dmp 0.15MB. No matter how I try, I can't get CCleaner to delete it. Any ideas, suggestions, links, etc., would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for the help.

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Posted 24 August 2007 - 11:17 PM

Are you running CCleaner as a user with admin rights?

Can you manually delete the file?

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Posted 25 August 2007 - 03:04 PM

Thanks for replying Glen. I manually deleted the file twice and it reappeared upon reboot. I finally used system restore, found a point before the file appeared and stayed there. Rebooted, ran CCleaner and file is gone.

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Posted 25 August 2007 - 09:45 PM

Dr Watson\user.dmp is a crash dump file. Was a program crashing?

Note that if you don't use the dump file to debug, you can disable it in the Dr Watson settings panel.

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Posted 25 August 2007 - 11:59 PM

check this out: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308538 (to do with Dr Watson) it's a MS program

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Posted 26 August 2007 - 03:45 AM

Dr Watson caused a lot of problems with me a few weeks ago.. a program crashed, and Dr Watson kept popping up after that.. it wouldn't go away, I thought it was a virus or something.. it would always randomly appear in my proccesses
had to reboot in safe mode and disable it :wacko: it's a weird program. it's a good idea to turn it off ;)