Does anybody know how to get rid of this thing? I googled it and there were instructions on how to disable it by going to Internet Options>Advanced and click on a couple of Disable Debugging boxes which I did and restarted but it still does it about a million times a day. It just started doing it yesterday. People on the sites I looked at were talking about it being something to do with a program called Visual Studio or something like that which I don't even know what that is. I'm running XP. Any help is appreciated.
Try restoring back to a point before it started happenning.
Yeah, I did that yesterday. I had all kinds of bad stuff popping up telling me my hard drive was full and something bad about my RAM and that I had to defrag to eliminate these errors. That all looked real fishy because my hard drive is not full and otherwise everything was working fine. I System Restored back to yesterday morning so maybe if I just Restore back to Friday or so, that will take care of it. Thanks.
Try this: Explorer-tools-Internet Options. Click on the Advanced tab, then scroll down to Browsing, then click on the box the says "Disable Script Debugging" both on internet explorer and other
Thanks, MM, but I thought I explained that that's what I did and it didn't work. Other people on the sites I looked at said it didn't work for them either but some said it worked fine.
Sorry. Saw the judt-in-time and quit reading. I remembered that it worked for me. It sounds like you picked up something. You have probably already run anti-virus and spyware programs, but that might help.
MS sent me an auto update a couple months ago that totally trashed my system. My ISP tech even agreed it was the culprit. Tried system restore to a week before. Nothing. Did it again for a month before and everything is still fine again. Also turned off auto MS updates....Oh yeah, I'm running XP as well. I dunno. Damned computers?
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Visual Studio has nothing to do with the cause. The cause is sloppy java script programmers' code on sites you visit. VS just happens to be the programming environment that IE likes to try to launch. In my case, on the ocassion (sp?) when I get this I am prompted for which of the 3 versions of it I have installed here.
The option to disable script debugging should have prevented further annoyances. If it didn't I'd guess something else is going on.
A time or 2 I've been able to figure out what the ill-behaved script is trying to do. Usually it was because I had some advanced feature disabled on my browser that they sloppy code didn't check on before assuming said feature was disabled.
There is nothing you can do about it except to not visit sites where it occurs unless you want to re-enable all options back to the browser defaults.
E - It hasn't done it for a couple of hours and it didn't really affect the functioning of the computer; just annoying to have to close it 3-4 times when it popped up. I'm hoping it got over it and went away but not counting on it.
I spoke too soon. I opened Internet Explorer and it popped up again. It says "An exception 'Run Time Error' has occurred in Script" Then a window below that called "Possible Debuggers" lists "New instance of Microsoft Script Editor" and asks me "Do you want to debug using the selected debugger?" I've just been closing it or saying No. I wonder what would happen if I said Yes. It also popped up 3 times since I started typing this.
You can go ahead and open the debugger if you like. It won't hurt. What you see will not likely make any sense. What you will see is either java script code or assembly language depending on your platform.
If it's assembly forget it. I'm likely one of less than handful here that can read it and make sense.
In either event you won't really get anything out of not really the context in which the exception was thrown in the first place.
That's been my experience. The only time it ever served my purposed was when it was script code that I had written and I was intentionally debugging it.
I System Restored to last Thursday before JIT showed up but it was still popping up. I tried at least three different suggested methods to get rid of it, none of which worked. Some instructions led me to believe it was something to do with Visual Studio, which I had never heard of, and I had to have VS open to disable JIT, which I had also never heard of. I found a folder for VS in my Program Files but it was basically empty. Then I decided I needed to download VS so I could open it but the download failed.
JIT kept popping up when I'd try to open IE. I finally, in desperation, told it to be my default debugger, let it do its thing, then pulled down Tools>Options there was a debugging folder on the left, I clicked it and it allowed me to uncheck a box that enabled debugging. Just that easy. Only took about 4 hours to figure it out by mistake.
