DrWatson Postmortem De!!!!!!

joncarpet

On starting up my laptop earlier, everything was going normally until an error box popped up. it said Dr Watson Postmortem De!!!!!! had encountered a problem etc etc and did i want to send an error report.
clicked on send, the next little box came up, connected etc etc and disappeared as normal.
However, the DrWatson error box stayed where it was and i couldnt select/open anything - curser was teh eggtimer.
i did ALT+CTRL+DELETE and nothing was showing in task manager applications. Processes all looked ok - CPU usage was around 7%. and nothing unusual in performance.
closed task manager and the outline of it stayed where it was.
ended up restarting and everything seemed to go ok - well i got to use programmes and the message didnt appear.

i've never seen this error before. didnt even know what DrWatson was. is there anything that i can do to see what was causing the problem?
if any further info is required, just let me know.

cheers

fwor

This site obviously doesn't like the word debu66er...

The Dr Watson tool is described here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308538

You might be able to find out more about the cause of the problem by looking in the system and application error logs.

You don't say which version of Windows you're using, but in XP you can view these via Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Event Viewer.

Having said that, I generally find the error message to be inscrutable and unhelpful, but you may get lucky...