Re: message when shutting down

ve1825@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote in
news:1174149499.353596.107540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

On Mar 17, 4:18 pm, Marcus Houlden <s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 17 Mar 2007 09:08:01 -0700, ve1...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<ve1...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote the following to uk.comp.misc:

When I try to shut down my computer (Windows XP OS) I
sometimes get the message "dwwin.exeDLL initialisation
failed" and "Application failed to initialise because the
window station is shutting down". Its not a problem as I just
click the message off, and it does shut down. But its a bit
of a nuisance; does it matter?

DWWIN.EXE is an MS tool called Dr Watson and is used for
debugging program errors. There's a long story behind the name
and it's been in Windows since at least version 3.1. More
details
athttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Watson_%28debugger%29for a
start.

To get rid of the message you can disable Dr Watson by
following the instructions
athttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;188296

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Thanks for your answer. Now I know what the dw stands for.
I might try following the instructions on the Microsoft website
and see if that works.

Before you do anything, consider what is happening here: Dr Watson is
fired up when something crashes, and is unable to start up because
the system is shutting down - so you are only seeing a symptom, not
the cause of the problem.

Suggest you have a look at the system event logs to see if that sheds
light on what is going wrong.
.

Relevant Pages

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  • Re: message when shutting down
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