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Process name: Watson Subscriber for SENS Network Notifications
Product: Watson Subscriber for SENS Network Notifications or Windows Messenger or Microsoft Virtual Server or DVD Solution or Microsoft Office Professional or Microsoft Document Explorer or Microsoft Windows SharePoint or Windows Live Messenger or Microsoft Office Small or Microsoft .NET Framework or Windows Defender or Microsoft Office Enterprise or Microsoft Flight Simulator X or MAGIX Photostory 4.0 e-version or Microsoft Office Visio or dwtrig20.exe" -t or Spyware Terminator or Microsoft Visual C++ or Microsoft Office Ultimate or Microsoft Visual Basic or Microsoft Office Home and or Microsoft Office Accounting or Sony Ericsson Device Data or Microsoft Visual Studio or Microsoft Application Error or Virgin Media Broadband Help or Lotus SmartSuite - English or ATI MCE Transcode or Visual Basic for Applications or Adobe AIR
Company: Microsoft Corporation (www.microsoft.com)
File: dwtrig20.exe


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All comments about dwtrig20.exe:
PC Part of a Service Pack for MS Office 2003 including Sharepoint, Project, Visio. Check link for full details.  See also: Link
fairly certain this is a temp run command for office 2003 that is used when an office app is opened in safe mode. Usually due to a service being turned off
Kevin Sangwell This is a legitimate file (not spy/malware) which sends error reporting information to Microsoft if a programme crashes. It will ask your perfmission before sending. Recommend leaving the file in place.  See also: Link
Criminet installed with office 12 prerelease
Boughto Was added as startup process after I installed PhotoshopCS2. I DO NOT run Office2k3 - only OfficeXP. Not really needed if only reports on crashes.
CrownRoyal office 2007 as well
Tom installed with office 2007 beta 2 for error reporting
Peter K After 3 weeks this meesage comes up on my xp system. I do not have office installed.
Mauricio D'avila It's an error sender program for Microsoft Office 2003 and some others MS applications.
Its nothing to do with Office, i had office installed for months before this thing cropped up... though i'm not sure, i think its something to do with Dr. Watson, which sends debug info to microsoft and notifies you of serious errors.. most probably, this one comes in with Windows Defender or IE 7's SP patch.
BlueJay I have none of the MS applications mentioned by other users here. This process is activated at boot time when an application previously failed to install. After the report has been sent to MS, the process is unloded.
David S. It's installed with some of the newer Microsoft Applications. It prompts you to send error reports back to Microsoft. I recommend sending them. Once the report is sent, it will remove itself from startup, untill more errors are generated by some applications.
Gus It stands for "Dr. Watson Trigger", probably version 2.0 or something. Dr. Watson is Microsoft's error reporting tool. Recommended not to remove it unless you know what you're doing.
office 2007 error
Danny T in addition... (also the server does not have Photoshop installed)
jOsefuz it's just an error sender... it will be gone when it has finished its task wich is to send errors from a Microsoft program... that's all... no need to run a spyware or whatever...
Tigz Mordan It's definitely nothing to do with Office or IE7 - I have IE6 and OpenOffice.org. Created 2002-08-29, first run 2007-09-20... blacklisted the program and nothing bad seemed to happen.
enachead I can`t reinstal office 2007 without this file
Peter Osterberg When I open an Office 2007 program it attempts put into the registry (start when windows open) this program. I use Mike Lin's StartupMonitor so I can control such behavior. I have disallowed this without any bad consequences. I highly recommend StartupMonitor and Startup Control Panel by Mike Lin I have used them for many years now on all Windows OS except Vista (will try to avoid that OS for a long time)  See also: Link
mike I keep getting Spybot pop-up that a registry item, DWQueuedReporting, has been changed.
Skip Bogard Tried to install at boot when I logged into Hotmail; It didn't ask permission & contrary to many other opinions, I think it is hostile MS spyware used to analyze network connections (like to Hotmail/MSN)
CJ It is an error report for Microsoft. Tracks recently crashed programs and lets you send them
Microsoft error reporting for MS application. queues error reports and asks for permission to submit them to microsoft. The user also have the option to disable error reporting completely.
Chrissi After installing Office 2007 Service Pack 1 this file is loaded every time you start the PC.
Jim Spybot detected after I clicked on Office Diagnostics part of Office 2007 tools

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