re: dwwin.exe not simply belownormal
Friday, June 6, 2003 at 12:41 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Godfried Hombergen
(8 messages posted)
Adding "start /belownormal" in the registry worked: the errormessage about dwwin32.exe
no longer occurred at shutting down. But.... the problem seems to be more complicated:
1. Norton Utilities' Windoctor detects this addition as an error. It says that the
key HKLM\Software....\Run refers to a registryvalue "Gravis Xperience Driver Support"
that points to "start /belownormal C:\Windows....\Grxp4exe.exe /init" an invalid
startup command.
2. The driver Grxp4exe.exe disappered from the taskmanager.
So in fact deleting an error created a new error.
Before the dwwin32-promblem came up, I happened to update WinXP with SP1 (and the
subsequent updates from MicroSoft) as well as to install the Gravis Blackhawk Digital
Joystick software. Thus it is not possible to relate the dwwin32-problem to the one
or the other. As both (and logitech mouses) are often mentioned in the treatment
of this problem in this forum it appears that there is a relationship.
At the same time that I met the dwwin32-problem on my PC I experienced another problem:
long time-outs as they seem to be while activating programs and processes. F.i. starting
the file explorer it takes 10-20 seconds or so before it comes up. To speed it up
I applicate an artificial handling: Ctrl-Alt-Del to ask for the taskmanager. As soon
as the programwindow of the tm opens I see "not reacting" changing in "Activated"
on the the File Explorer-line. After this the file-explorer windows opens at once...
What does it mean? How can I get rid of this annoying problem of slowness?
On Saturday, October 19, 2002 at 8:48 am, norm wrote:
>Had this problem, here is what I did:
>
>Open regedit, go to:
>HKLM_SOFTWARE_MICROSOFT_CURRENT VERSION_RUN
>
>If you have a logitech input device, or a Gravis gamepad input device, you need
to
>modify the value of the registry key so that the application starts up in *belownormal*
>processor priority.
>
>Example:
>start /belownormal c:\windows\system32\Grxp4exe.exe /init
>
>"start /belownormal" is the addition you will make to the beginning of the line...
>
>Hope this helps,
>-Norm
>
>
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- re: dwwin.exe (norm: Saturday, October 19, 2002 at 8:48 am)
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