re: dwwin.exe
Friday, January 23, 2009 at 7:46 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Pawolford
(1 messages posted)
I am getting the dwwin.exe -breakpoint reached error. Please help me fix this....
I received this error after loading a program and tried to use the program.
thanks
paw
On Friday, October 25, 2002 at 8:15 pm, norm wrote:
>"start" is a command line tool used to invoke the windows shell (or windows exe's)
>from a command prompt. By selecting "/belownormal" you tell it to start the following
>command in a belownormal priority state (as opposed to the default, "normal".) (Their
>are 6 different priority states possible: low, belownormal, normal, abovenormal,
>high, & realtime.)
>
>As the "start" command is command line driven, you get the best results adhering
>to DOS 8.3 filenames... (e.g. "mydocu~1" instead of "My Documents".) In WinXP you
>can see the 8.3 filenames by doing a "dir /x".)
>
>Example from RUN key in registry:
>
>Original Value: wdpdf.exe /config
>
>New Value: start /belownormal c:\progra~1\westing\wdpdf.exe /config
>
>Here is a good KBA on "start":
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechnol/winxppro/proddocs/start.asp
>
>As to "why" this seems to help this problem, who knows! I know if you check "Admin
>Tools-->Event Viewer-->System" and look at the error it isn't very helpful... But
>when the problem key's priority is lowered, the message stops and no errors are
added
>to the log. I had no ill effects, so I said "Yes!".
>
>Oh yeah, I believe this is a bug introduced with WinXP SP1 as well... I have not
>heard of this being a problem pre-SP1.
>
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- re: dwwin.exe (norm: Friday, October 25, 2002 at 8:15 pm)
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