"DWWin.exe failed" when shutting down

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when i log on to msn i automaticaly get shut down when i try and start a
conversation is there anything i can do to stop this from happening
 
tonpal said:
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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tonpal said:
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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tonpal said:
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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tonpal said:
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
Click to expand...
 
tonpal said:
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
Click to expand...
 
tonpal said:
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
Click to expand...
 
tonpal said:
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
Click to expand...
 
tonpal said:
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
Click to expand...
 
tonpal said:
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
Click to expand...
 
tonpal said:
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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why does the site to pogo games shut down when I log in? I get a send error
message!!!!!!!!! no help
 
tonpal said:
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
Click to expand...
 
tonpal said:
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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S.Sengupta said:
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
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The simplest solution that I have found that works is to turn off error
reporting, but this just fixes the symptoms, not why it is doing this in the
first place.

Doing a search on the MS web site didn't find any fixes for me that
worked. One of the suggestions was to find the error in the Event Veiwer, I
found a number of Errors and warnings (Quite a few) under System, none in
Security, 3 in MS Office Sessions, none in MS Office Diagnostics or IE and
quite a few errors and warnings in Application. What do I do with all this
information available to me and how does it relate to dwwin not initialising..

Thanks for your time.
 
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