I have faced "ArcGIS desktop has encountered a serious problem..." in Windows XP and Windows 7. I have tried with ArcGIS 9.3.1 and ArcGIS 10, same issue..
Finally, the issue was with the monitoring tool installed in those machines.. These montioring tools blocking the arcmap.exe, arccatalog.exe. After making exclusion flags in the monitoring tools, it is working fine.......
Finally, the issue was with the monitoring tool installed in those machines.. These montioring tools blocking the arcmap.exe, arccatalog.exe. After making exclusion flags in the monitoring tools, it is working fine.......