re: dwwin.exe Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 9:32 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by philselmer (1 messages posted) This problem is not actually a result of anything Microsoft has done wrong. Dr. Watson is getting called up because one of the applications running crashed (or encountered some other type of error). When shutting down the computer, dwwin is forcefully closed. Any application can cause dwwin to be launched. It seems like this happens most often when applications are shutting themselves down improperly. Since the computer is shutting down anyway, dwwin gets called up and immediately shutdown. On Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 12:22 pm, JNettik wrote: >Look at the dates on this thread!!! This has been going on for 6 freekin years. >Thanks again, Microsoft!!! > >BTW - Yes I get the message on my laptop everytime I shut it down. > >FWIW - It looks like DrWatson is trying to report an error, but get's stuck in the >background and never completes the process. Then when you shutdown Windows, you >get the error that it's trying to load (DrWatson dll) but can't and now the OS is >shutting down. > > > Written in response to: re: dwwin.exe (JNettik: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 12:22 pm) Responses to this message: re: dwwin.exe (JBT: Friday, March 6, 2009 at 8:31 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] dwwin.exe (Leigh: Sun, Aug 18, 2002, 5:05 pm) re: dwwin.exe (Beecher Wood: Sun, Aug 18, 2002, 5:37 pm) re: dwwin.exe (Leigh: Sun, Aug 18, 2002, 5:42 pm) re: dwwin.exe (jcw: Sun, Aug 18, 2002, 8:25 pm) re: dwwin.exe (Arthur Kaljian: Tue, Oct 8, 2002, 7:11 pm) re: dwwin.exe (KenshinVu: Wed, Oct 1, 2003, 11:19 pm) re: dwwin.exe (KenshinVu: Wed, Oct 1, 2003, 11:36 pm) dwwin.exe (selina: Mon, Sep 18, 2006, 9:51 am) re: dwwin.exe (bgreen: Tue, Sep 26, 2006, 1:16 pm) re: dwwin.exe (GazUK: Thu, Sep 28, 2006, 12:29 am) re: dwwin.exe (Jilly: Thu, Sep 28, 2006, 2:40 pm) re: dwwin.exe (GhostB5: Tue, Nov 17, 2009, 9:47 am) re: dwwin.exe (GhostB5: Tue, Nov 17, 2009, 11:32 am) re: dwwin.exe (Metal: Thu, Oct 3, 2002, 6:18 pm) re: dwwin.exe (jcw: Tue, Oct 8, 2002, 10:29 pm) re: dwwin.exe (K: Mon, Oct 7, 2002, 10:48 am) re: dwwin.exe (jcw: Tue, Oct 8, 2002, 10:32 pm) re: dwwin.exe (Handy_man: Wed, Apr 7, 2004, 2:42 pm) re: dwwin.exe (Paul: Tue, Jun 1, 2004, 6:40 am) re: dwwin.exe (BillV: Tue, Jun 29, 2004, 11:43 am) re: dwwin.exe (CherokeeCandy: Mon, Aug 30, 2004, 10:31 am) re: dwwin.exe (tvzz: Fri, Apr 25, 2008, 8:51 pm) re: dwwin.exe (zzg: Mon, Feb 7, 2005, 3:31 am) re: dwwin.exe (jcw: Tue, Oct 8, 2002, 10:47 pm) re: dwwin.exe (Mutlin: Thu, Oct 10, 2002, 2:50 pm) re: dwwin.exe (norm: Sat, Oct 19, 2002, 8:48 am) re: dwwin.exe (norm: Sat, Oct 19, 2002, 8:57 am) re: dwwin.exe (Danny: Sun, Oct 20, 2002, 4:15 pm) re: dwwin.exe (Bob Barron: Sun, Jun 22, 2003, 3:10 pm) re: dwwin.exe (Robert Fakhoury: Mon, Oct 21, 2002, 6:39 pm) re: dwwin.exe (John D. 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