What is dwwin.exe

everytime i logout of my friends computer its appear error "dwwin.exe DLL initialization failed what is main caused of this problem please help

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Noel D Paton

"michael91680" wrote in message news:feb7f6ac-9c2b-41dd-a2e3-9e378d56c415...

> everytime i logout of my friends computer its appear error "dwwin.exe DLL

> initialization failed what is main caused of this problem please help

Dr Watson for Windows (Microsoft Application Error Reporting) -

We have no chance of telling you what caused the error message without

details!

There are a couple of possibilities -

1) the computer might be infested with malware.

when was the last time you ran a full system scan of your computer with

up-to-date AV software? do it now!

Download and run Malwarebytes Anti-malware from www.malwarebytes.org --

install it, update it, and run it on a Quick scan of the PC - delete

everything it finds.

2) a system file is missing - do you have an XP CD, or merely a Recovery

disk/partition?

Try this anyway - Open a Command Prompt window

at the prompt, type

SFC /SCANNOW

The System File Checker will run, and correct any mismatched files

(hopefully!) - it may ask for the Windows disk. If it does, then insert the

Windows XP disk. If you only have Recovery media, then you're stuck - but

use the options to cancel the disk request so that it resumes scanning.

Doing this means that the errors get logged properly, and we may be able to

do something about it later (if there's not too many!).

3) Event Viewer may have an entry for the error - have a look and see if it

mentions specific files.

4) Dr Watson makes a log of what it does in the following folder-

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson

You can open DrWatson in interactive mode by going to Start >Run

type

DRWTSN32

and click OK

read the Help files

5) turn off Dr Watson - it doesn't normally run unless the user asks.

However, since it's identified a problem, it'd be a good idea to fix the

problem first! :)

Noel

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