dwwin.exe error message

Rancher, Rancher, Rancher. I've done as you've recommended and the dang dwwin.exe error message still comes up!!!!! I am so frusterated with this whole problem.
I also have downloaded a while back Wild Tangent updater and the wild tangent web driver. Do I need these and should I try to uninstall them to see if the problem goes away?I'm Just trying to see what else could be causing the error message to come up!!!
Let me know your thoughts about this!
Thanks,
Lucy

 

Dear Lucy

I have copied here one of your earlier post & will reply!

Rancher, please disregard my previous reply!! I did a search for the files you suggested and this is what it gave me:
For: system.ini (system, system.ini.backup)
win.ini (win, win.ini.backup)
and for the other two nothing came up. Do I delete these completely and if so, will it give me different problems in the future, in other words, are these files needed for anything else on my system? Sorry for the ignorance, but I am learning by dealing with you!
Lucy

You can delete the win.ini.bak & the other .bak's as well. But what I really wanted you to do was look into the "REAL" .ini's like this: "Start/Run" type sysedit [enter] & look in these menus for the referance dwwin & remove it then save/exit

The dwwin is a windows search assistant on my WinXP puter. However does not show as an .exe

Last....When you boot next time, the second you see the message script "error finding dwwin.exe" press the PAUSE key and wright down everything on screen on?

 

; for 16-bit app support
[drivers]
wave=mmdrv.dll
timer=timer.drv
[mci]
[driver32]
[386enh]
woafont=dosapp.FON
EGA80WOA.FON=EGA80WOA.FON
EGA40WOA.FON=EGA40WOA.FON
CGA80WOA.FON=CGA80WOA.FON
CGA40WOA.FON=CGA40WOA.FON
[ScreenTime]
previousProjectorProcessID=2364

THE ABOVE INFO IS WHAT IS GIVES ME WHEN I WENT, START/RUN, SYSEDIT. THERE WERE 5 CASCADING WINDOWS, THE 2ND ONE HAD ALL THE ABOVE INFO AND THE 3RD ONE HAD ALL THE BELOW INFO????THE OTHER CASCADING WINDOWS HAD NOTHING IN THEM.

; for 16-bit app support
[drivers]
wave=mmdrv.dll
timer=timer.drv
[mci]
[driver32]
[386enh]
woafont=dosapp.FON
EGA80WOA.FON=EGA80WOA.FON
EGA40WOA.FON=EGA40WOA.FON
CGA80WOA.FON=CGA80WOA.FON
CGA40WOA.FON=CGA40WOA.FON
[ScreenTime]
previousProjectorProcessID=2364
; for 16-bit app support
[fonts]
[extensions]
[mci extensions]
[files]
[Mail]
MAPI=1
CMC=1
CMCDLLNAME=mapi.dll
CMCDLLNAME32=mapi32.dll
MAPIX=1
MAPIXVER=1.0.0.1
OLEMessaging=1
[MCI Extensions.BAK]
aif=MPEGVideo
aifc=MPEGVideo
aiff=MPEGVideo
asf=MPEGVideo2
asx=MPEGVideo2
au=MPEGVideo
ivf=MPEGVideo2
m1v=MPEGVideo
m3u=MPEGVideo2
mp2=MPEGVideo
mp2v=MPEGVideo
mp3=MPEGVideo2
mpa=MPEGVideo
mpe=MPEGVideo
mpeg=MPEGVideo
mpg=MPEGVideo
mpv2=MPEGVideo
snd=MPEGVideo
wax=MPEGVideo2
wm=MPEGVideo2
wma=MPEGVideo2
wmp=MPEGVideo2
wmv=MPEGVideo2
wmx=MPEGVideo2
wvx=MPEGVideo2
[WORDSCAN]
ININAME=OPLIMIT.INI
[WinFax]
UserName=Valued Customer
CompanyName=NA
Version=10.0
ExePath=C:\PROGRA~1\NORTON~1\WinFax\
Fax Path=C:\PROGRA~1\NORTON~1\WinFax\Data\
Cover Path=C:\PROGRA~1\NORTON~1\WinFax\Cover\
[CloneCD]
[MSUCE]
Advanced=0
CodePage=Unicode
Font=Arial
[drawdib]
vga.drv 800x600x32(BGR 0)=5,5,31,31
[SciCalc]
layout=1
[MCIAVI]
SkipFrames=1

 

Hi Rancher,

I've attempted several times on rebooting the system and pressing pause/break the sec I saw the error message, but of course windows continued shutting down and restarting. So this is the error message that I've managed to get during those attempts:
dwwin.dll initialization failed
dwwin.exe: This application has failed because this station/system is shutting down. I hope this helps a bit!

Lucy

 

dwwin.exe

To the best of my knowledge dwwin.exe is a WINXP file placed into C:\windows\system32 folder !!
The dwwin.dll is grouped into the exe with a number of others ness to fetch whatever the darn thang is 'sposed to! Did you do a windows update & by chance selected a patch or update ment for XP? My wife has dual O/S on her box & there is no dwwin.exe on her win98se! The only other possibel is upgrading your game stuff you downloaded this thang & now stuck with it. Ya can not rename the beast in it's folder coz when I tried to windows just built another issue of exe. I think we can remove this, if we determine the dwwin.exe is trully not needed for your computer, from the dos command...........
your win.ini & sys.ini are not the prob

 

Yes, I go to Windows update quite often to download what they suggest, only because I've been told to do that on occasion. If I delete dwwin.exe will it ***** up something else on my computer? Is it neccessary to have?
Lucy

 

Dear Lucy

I'm working on finding out just what if anything it's doing in win98.
Will get back to ya 25th

 

Thanks Rancher for being persistant with trying to help me out with this stinkin' problem!! I'll be waiting for you outcome!! Take
care,
Lucy

 

Dear Lucy

Seems ya have installed directx7.X over winxp's directx8.X. If you do re-install directX8.x make dang sure it's the winxp ver: not 98se ver: This coulda happened too? Do you have a registry cleaner? Download one coz the referance to our prob is coming up via the registry

 

It's quite possible that could of happened during a game installment or other program. What registry cleaner can you suggest I download to clean the registry? Thanks for getting back to me and letting me know.

 

This is a free regcleaner http://www.webmasterfree.com/regcleaner.html
Another http://www.webattack.com/download/dlregcleaner.shtml

 

http://www.webattack.com/download/dlregcleaner.shtml

the above is a 5 star regcleaner

 

Thanks Rancher!! I will try it out and let you know the out come!

 

Hi Rancher, I've downloaded the regcleaner, but am not sure what to look for and delete. Is there anything is specific or what should I be looking for? Any suggestions, if there are any?
Thanks again, you are a true help!!!!!!
Lucy

 

Lucy

Open the regcleaner. Click "tools ", select "Registry cleanup ", select "automatic registry cleaner" The cleaner will remove what it believes is SAFE only. I do this first, then restart puter, make sure things work ok (mine does) & just maybe this first step will fix the dwwin prob! If not open the regcleaner again & cleck on Help, readme & schroll down to the blue links as these are "live" to web as well. There are the answers & "Examples" for every on of the "TABS" across the top of the program.

IF things don't run correctly (it will) just restart, press F8 & select "Last Known Good Boot" [enter] & you are back with your old registry again.......\\\Rancher///
PS 8" snow here last nite & two baby calves born last 72hrs!! Yep they are in the barn

 

Hello Rancher,
Wow, you've got snow!! COOL!! LOL
I take it you own a farm of some sort? Congratulation's on the 2 new borns!!

Well, I ran automatic reg. cleaner, rebooted the darn thing but the stinkin' error message is still popping up!!! Grrrrrrr..............
I then ran:
OLE cleaner
Orphan file ref. cleaner, and no luck doing that either!!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!! Any other suggestions
Lucy

 

Lucy

Yes we have black angus beef cattle, hence the nickname "Rancher" that got pinned on me back when I was the only one ranching out here in the Chena valley.

I gotta confess this prob of yours has me stumped from my end
Maybe if I was in your chair I could figger it out. Seems no one else really has a handle on it either or they woulda jumped in by now. If you re-read our first few post sometimes ya pick things up that NOW ring a bell! The error comes about via diff hardware & software drives + utilities as "Windblinds" did for one & fancy keyboard drivers for another.

You can try setting "Diagnostics Startup" in msconfig this will of couse give you basic startup withouta lota drives, see if that works. Do you have "Normal startup" selected now?

 

Okay, now it all makes sense to me why your nick name is Rancher!!! lol
This whole thing has me stumped too, and I did go through everything from the beginning but nothing has come up different. I did go to msconfig and my start up method is set at selective start up. Should I change this?
Lucy

 

Lucy

Yes experiment, that's how we got to the moon I'm still workin' on it but how are you at starting over again? Do you have a cd burner & do you have the winxp cd?

 

I've tried it but still nothing. I have reformated before when I had windows 98 se, but since I've had windows XP pro installed I haven't had to reformat it yet up until now. I have the XP cd but prior to that I need to insert the 6 start up floppy discs for it and not sure if I know what to do from then on? Any suggestions for that? "Tired and frusterated "!!!!! Oh, and yes I have a cd burner!
Lucy