Laptop fails with IE and Dr Watson -

When PC starts up all appears to go well until windows appear saying error with Internet explorer - asks do I want to notify microsoft or not. This is followed by a similar window for Dr Watson.
After that nothing - no icons, no start bar, no sound of the processor doing anything.

I am only able to get onto internet by starting up a cut down version of the task manager which only allows me to start new tasks and I can only start firefox to get onto the internet - IE only crashes.
Nothing else seems to work.
All attempts to run anything which goes near the registry crashes

Is suicide the best option - I hope not