Guest leanhtuan Posted June 25, 2008 Posted June 25, 2008 Re: "DWWin.exe failed" when shutting down leanhtuan "S.Sengupta" wrote: > First of all dwwin.exe is an error reporting tool.It's only trying to > investigate "events" that it believes is causing problems that may lead > to crashing. > you look at the Event viewer to know what exactly is happening. > > How To View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q308427 > > Error Reporting Overview > http://www.microsoft.com/resources/satech/cer/GettingStartedMNU.asp > > regards, > ssg MS-MVP > > tonpal wrote: > > > For no obvious reason, I started getting an error message when I shut down > > WinXP. The message is only on-screen for less than a second so I've been > > unable to catch it all, but (probably paraphrased) it says that "DWWin.exe > > failed to initialise because Windows is shutting down". > > > > It may be that this started after automated error reporting to MS when FS9, > > and later WinXP, said that they 'had to shut down' but I did not notice it as > > following immediately, nor did it immediately follow any installation or > > update. > > > > Part of me doesn't care because because other sites I've seen say this is > > benign but any error makes me wonder what is behind it and what it might be > > hiding. I am also afraid that some important error message may come up in the > > future and I will dismiss it thinking it is this one again. Besides, I've > > spent a load of money on this machine and I want it to work properly! > > > > Any suggestions how to clear this? > > > > Thanks > > > > tonpal >
Guest moonyshab Posted July 20, 2008 Posted July 20, 2008 Re: "DWWin.exe failed" when shutting down Re: "DWWin.exe failed" when shutting down "leanhtuan" wrote: > leanhtuan > > "S.Sengupta" wrote: > > > First of all dwwin.exe is an error reporting tool.It's only trying to > > investigate "events" that it believes is causing problems that may lead > > to crashing. > > you look at the Event viewer to know what exactly is happening. > > > > How To View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q308427 > > > > Error Reporting Overview > > http://www.microsoft.com/resources/satech/cer/GettingStartedMNU.asp > > > > regards, > > ssg MS-MVP > > > > tonpal wrote: > > > > > For no obvious reason, I started getting an error message when I shut down > > > WinXP. The message is only on-screen for less than a second so I've been > > > unable to catch it all, but (probably paraphrased) it says that "DWWin.exe > > > failed to initialise because Windows is shutting down". > > > > > > It may be that this started after automated error reporting to MS when FS9, > > > and later WinXP, said that they 'had to shut down' but I did not notice it as > > > following immediately, nor did it immediately follow any installation or > > > update. > > > > > > Part of me doesn't care because because other sites I've seen say this is > > > benign but any error makes me wonder what is behind it and what it might be > > > hiding. I am also afraid that some important error message may come up in the > > > future and I will dismiss it thinking it is this one again. Besides, I've > > > spent a load of money on this machine and I want it to work properly! > > > > > > Any suggestions how to clear this? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > tonpal > >
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