[bradyg23]

Every now and then my system will hang up. Can't click on anything, and can only Cntrl Alt Del to get out of it. If I do that and log off and back on, then I can access programs again (full reboot not needed). Last time it happened I rec'd the following:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: (100)
Event ID: 1000
Date: 4/18/2007
Time: 6:37:01 PM
User: N/A
Computer: MONSTER
Description:
Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2900.2180, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x02ac23ec.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft....link/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 65 78 70 ure exp
0018: 6c 6f 72 65 72 2e 65 78 lorer.ex
0020: 65 20 36 2e 30 2e 32 39 e 6.0.29
0028: 30 30 2e 32 31 38 30 20 00.2180
0030: 69 6e 20 75 6e 6b 6e 6f in unkno
0038: 77 6e 20 30 2e 30 2e 30 wn 0.0.0
0040: 2e 30 20 61 74 20 6f 66 .0 at of
0048: 66 73 65 74 20 30 32 61 fset 02a
0050: 63 32 33 65 63 c23ec

System is Windows XP with all patches, 3GHz with 1GB of RAM, Dell Dimension 4700. McAfee Security Center with the latest defs, Webroot Spy Sweeper.

Any suggestions?

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Any other error messages.

[anzenketh]

Any other error messages.

[bradyg23]

At the time of the freeze up there was also a Doctor Watson error that was equally vague. It did seem when I went into the Task Manager that there was still a Dr. Watson process running, although System was Idle 98%.