Generic .mdmp and appcompat.txt errors driving me insane!

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"Theotherguy" <Theotherguy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> These strange generic errors have plauged my system in what seems like its
> entire life. They happen often, and effect random programs for random
> periods
> of time. Every time I try to run the control panel these errors occur.
> Whenever drwtsn32 runs, I receive an error of this type. What are these
> errors? TEMP errors! I attempt to open the program, it says "this program
> encountered an error and needs to close" and then closes. So far this has
> happened (on and off) to Internet Explorer, the control panel, microsoft
> word, almost every game program I've ever owned, and just recentley to
> Adobe
> Photoshop (which frankly pissed me off, and drove me to ask for assistance
> on
> these forums. I'm sure you've seen this error before, and it appears to be
> a
> very common one, and I'm assuming its a generic error spouted by windows
> when
> something goes wrong with a program, but I will post the error log for
> Adobe
> photoshop.
>
> Please, please if anyone knows what's going on, please point me in the
> right
> direction; this error is driving me insane!
>
> log of the Adobe Photoshop error:
> *attempts to run program*
> *program MIRACULOUSLY WORKS*
>
> oh, wow! It seems that in the course of posting this, photoshop has
> decided
> to start working again! (This should give you a picture of the random and
> frustrating aspect of these generic errors)
>
> So, instead I will show you the log of the one that occurs when I attempt
> to
> start the control panel:
>
> EventType : BEX P1 : drwtsn32.exe P2 : 5.1.2600.0 P3 :
> 3b7d84a2
> P4 : dbghelp.dll P5 : 5.1.2600.2180 P6 : 4110969a P7 :
> 0001295d
> P8 : c0000409 P9 : 00000000
>
> C:\DOCUME~1\Matthew\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERb020.dir00\drwtsn32.exe.mdmp
> C:\DOCUME~1\Matthew\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERb020.dir00\appcompat.txt
>
> Oh, it seems that this is one of those rare and exotic drwtsn32 ones...
> but
> the error message is identical for every program (just replace drwtsn32
> with
> the name of the program)
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>