Guest erol Posted July 28, 2008 Posted July 28, 2008 Re: "DWWin.exe failed" when shutting down "Li'l Roberto" wrote: > Run Help and Support, enter doctor watson in the search field > > rgds > Li'l Roberto > > > "tonpal" <tonpal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:C954AABF-DFCC-404C-B83F-BEF273A03BB7@microsoft.com... > > 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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