Kill MDM!!!

[JaiKnight]

I just installed Visual Studio 6.0, and as you may know it installs this Microsoft Debugger Machine (MDM.EXE) or whatever it is. Well ever since I installed VS6.0 my system has been slower and has crashed quite a bit more (even after patches). I uninstalled VS6.0 and now the stupid debugger won't go away. I've disabled it in startup, but it seems like it has embedded itself in the OS. Is there some way to get rid of this annoying thing? I KNOW it's causing things to crash....must squash the bug....

 

[SonOfZeuz]

Just delete the MDM.exe file

 

[JaiKnight]

Is there anything hooking it into the system that I have to get rid of? I'm not even sure when it gets loaded, just once in a while when I do ctrl-alt-del it's there, so I kill it

 

[UberNeuman]

If you're running Win98 or SE, then use the System Config utility to check and see if MDE.EXE is being loaded when you system boots... If it is, then un-check dat sucka!

 

[JaiKnight]

Unchecked already, first thing I did after I installed VS6.0

 

[jaywallen]

I think IE reactivates the little ah heck, well debugger. Tools | Internet Options. Advanced tab. Check "disable script debugging", uncheck "display a notification about every script error". After you do that you might want to check for all of those ffff.... files it leaves -- in the Windows directory in Win9X, I think. (I'm an NT / W2K user so have only seen this infrequently when trying to help a Win9X user.) If you have FastFind running on the machine, don't get its index files mixed up with the ffff.... files left by the MDM. FastFind should be turned off and have its index files deleted through its applet in Control Panel. Then it should be uninstalled. Then shot in the head. Twice.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Jim