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re: dwwin.exe
Monday, May 24, 2004 at 11:12 am
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Posted by JohnRod (1 messages posted)

I have also been having the dwwin error on shut-down, and I solved it per these steps (thanks to all the ideas I spotted in these threads): 1) I turned off error reporting (control panel/system/advanced) - be sure to even disable "notify me when critical errors occur". 2) I initiated a restart of the computer, and wrote down the names of the programs that were causing errors that resulted in Windows trying to initialize dwwin.exe but couldn't be because Windows was "shutting down"! In my case the programs were AlarmApp.exe (a Palm Desktop program) and msmsgs.exe (the Windows Messenger program). 3) I configured Windows Messenger (don't delete it!) so it does not automatically start on start-up. (I don't use it anyway.) 4) I added AlarmApp.exe to the programs to exempt on error reporting (control panel/system/advanced). 5) I re-enabled error reporting and then restarted the computer: NO MORE PROBLEM!

On Monday, February 16, 2004 at 12:17 am, Bill wrote:
>I have been having the dwwin error on shut-down as well. I have a gravis gamepad
>with gravis control panel 4.5 and believe the problem to be related to this.
>I tried the start /belownormal change in my registry. That got rid of the error but
>force feedback no longer worked on my controller. I changed the registry back to
>the way it was - force feedback worked again but of course the error returned.
>I think Windows Messenger is adding to the problem - I sometimes get errors saying
>it must shutdown when using gravis control pad - even though I never have it open.
>I removed Windows Messenger - I don't use it anyway, so far this seems to have solved
>all my problems: Feedback works and no dwwin error.
>I also read that upgrading Messenger to 5.0 may solve this as well.
>IF YOU DO DELETE MESSENGER AND USE OUTLOOK FOR YOUR EMAIL - BACK UP YOUR CONTACTS,
>IT MAY DELETE THEM WHEN YOU DELETE MESSENGER!
>Time will tell if this solution works, but I hope this helps.
>
>

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re: dwwin.exe (Bill: Monday, February 16, 2004 at 12:17 am)

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