Atbroker.exe - Application Error in Vista

 

So I go to remote into my machine via RDP tonight and up comes a black screen and the popup error:

Hrmm so I click OK and now all I have is a black screen. Gahhhh. I actually had some serious work to do from home tonight.

 A quick search shows that this is no isolated to me...

https://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1191704&SiteID=17

If you bring up task manager via CTRL SHIFT ESC you get this:

So - I did some research on it and it appears to be a known issue - perhaps fixed in the Svc Pack or sooner if a customer complains ( hint hint ) . Apparently winlogon gets a bit confused and insists on showing me the secure desktop screen.

 

 Anywho - a workaround for now is to do CTRL-ALT-END and choose Logoff.

Luckily I had some text docs unsaved and it gave me a chance to abort the logoff as well.

FYI I also saw this in the evt logs:

Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 3/12/2007 9:46:25 PM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: mymachine
Description:
Faulting application atbroker.exe, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp 0x4549aed5, faulting module USER32.dll, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp 0x4549bdc9, exception code 0xc0000142, fault offset 0x00008fc7, process id 0x1aac, application start time 0x01c7652a8be56c87.

 So I went to look for a .dmp file but can't seem to find drwtsn32.exe anymore -- ahhh its been replaced

https://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/6c8431c2-8cac-4ff5-b210-4dceb3fd88331033.mspx

says " Dr. Watson, the system failure or "crash" analysis tool, has been replaced in this version of Windows with Problem Reports and Solutions. "

 

Hrmm, well I'd still like to see a dmp file. Anyone know how I can configure it to create a full one like I used to do in XP?

It looks like it saves some dmps under C:\Users\All Users\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue\Report - but I dont see one for this crash.

I can also see that there is a drwatson.exe - but I have yet to determine its purpose in life. When I launch it, it simply says "no faults detected".  If someone can shed some light on that as well, I'd be grateful  :)

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