Re: "DWWin.exe failed" when shutting down

Thanks for your response

I have now seen the log entry for the apparent causal error -- essentially
that the shutdown is out of sequence for some reason. I shall now go away and
start investigating further.

Thanks again

tonpal


"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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