Thanks for the fast reply. I am no computer whizz, so I don't understand much of what they were discussing, but It sounded as if the chap in question had a program called "the fall guy"??? I didn't quite get that... can someone maybe explain it to me slowly... as If I am a n00b (which I obviously am)... do I need a program called Hijack this??

Oh and - it is happening whilst I write this post. Strangely it is all still working but at the mo I have 57 processes running - 20 of which will be dwwin/drwtsn32.

So... Thanks for the kind help and fast reply but I need a n00b explanation.

Will.

Ok - So am i going to have to remove Dr Watson? I edited the registry once to turn it off, but then I couldnt open the registry because dr watson said no... so I had to do a system restore. Sometimes this event will not happen for a couple of days, then three or four times a day sometimes.. it seems to have no link whatsoever to what I am doing!

HEY!!! OMFG - Was just doing a google search -found this guy with the same prob and this guy told him to do the exact thing you just told me! Cool. I just did it - put a restore point behind it though... of course. I just restarted and all seems well, although it can take a couple of minutes, hours or even days to start up.

Thankyou for your help so far guys - much appreciated.



Sorry - just noticed that you said just to look. I disabled "Error Reporting" - it i easy to get back on if needs be. When I did it in the registry straight to drwtsn, it mucked up and said I couldnt open anything... literally anything without a major error. That happened almost immediatley and this has had no immediate effect so far. This could be good... or bad.

Lets hope its the former!

WF07, I'm not sure that disabling 'Error Reporting' will help you. I am no expert but all that will do will - to my simple mind - is stop the errors from coming up on your screen and not solve the actual problem on your system. If Yrag is around later he might have some ideas.

I would certainly run both your anti-virus and anti-spyware programs too, to see if this picks something up. Sometimes it pays to run a couple of anti-spyware progs over your computer like Adaware and Spybot (BOTH FREE). I always use at least two anti-spyware progs as sometimes what one misses the other picks up. On the anti-virus side if you want to double check your anti-virus is doing its job you can also do a second scan using a good web scanner provided FREE by ESET LINK WWW Link. As far as Hijack This is conerned there are many forums around the web where people will help you interpret the results and recommend action if you copy and paste a copy of the log file it produces........  

Ok - I am currently running Kaspersky, and I'm going to do a full system scan of it all today. I will probably run spybot as well, but I am almost certain that I don't have a virus. So far all errors have stopped and all seems well.

What exactly causes these errors to occur? Viruses? Spyware? Malware?

Or could it just be a corrupt file?

And thankyou for your help btw guys. Very helpful forum.

Oh CRAP! It just happened again... whilst I was doing the virus scan.... jesus - what am I going to do?

Ok - Scan Complete - No Threats were detected. In a way quite annyoing - if I had found something I would have known that was the problem as I scanned it two weeks ago anyway.

Do you mean a clean install of windows? My dad has got all the computers in our house on a network, so three of us and wireless network also (mines not wireless) - my point is that I am the backup computer, it could take a few days at least. And anyway, my dad is no computer whizz. Also, I haven't told him of the problem yet, as I didn't think it was necessary and he might overreact.

Also - one question... If I do a registry cleanup and then do a system restore, does that restore ANY changes to the registry?

Put it this way, can this problem be easily solved?

Sorry to keep asking questions but could it be a memory overload? I only find it happens when I close one program and then open another (like closing a game(using a lot of CPU) to opening outlook)?? Could it be that one of my memory tab things has fallen out? A hardware issue?

Actaully I think tune-up utilities did this! It was 2004 version though I think... I did a registry cleanup and then the next day this started to happen - I did a system restore but  ....

When you did this did it give you the option to make a registry backup? If so....click on it and that might fix your problem.

Oh...and personally....I've found system restore to be useless. Best thing you can do is buy a backup program.

Yeah - 2004 had a trial too... I will see what I can do. It happened once last night - I tried just clicking "End Process" when about 80 popped up - it did the trick, at least I could then restart my computer properly without having to do it incorrectly.

I uninstalled TuneUp now, I may give 2007 a go to see what it can do... what do you think?

Well....if your at the point now that your getting 80 pop ups....thats a lot....it would seem to me that something in your registry is borked...and all these "My program will fix anything" programs aren't going to really fix anything. At this point I would just do a fresh reinstall of windows and then once your done and before you do anything else I'd get a backup program...then you can just disable system restore...like Leo said...and I agree....its never restored anything.

I just bought this -> Acronis True Image Home 11.0 <- and it works great. It will copy your entire pc and if you screw up you can just reinstall everything in no time.

After looking at this: WWW Link - I wondered - could I not just re-install another similar de-bugging program, that does the job - but better?

What is your opinion?

Ok Guys - sorry for four reposts, but I think its sorted. It was a mess up with logitech webcam and kaspersky anti vir, which did it... Uninstalled webcam and got the newest evrsion of kaspersky, and I think i'm all sorted.

Thankyou for your kind help!