group policy window

How do I locate and view the Group Policy Window.
I would have thought that typing "gpedit.msc" no quotes into RUN would have turned it up, but I get the message that nothing can be found. Got this ifo from the book Windows XP annoyances, p.248.

 

I'm running Win XP home. This is my problem which occurs at shutdown. Here are two messages from the events log just at shutdown:
Event Type: Information
Event Source: Application Popup
Event Category: None
Event ID: 26
Date: 3/22/2005
Time: 12:21:04 PM
User: N/A
Computer: BOBBY2
Description:
Application popup: dwwin.exe - DLL Initialization Failed: The application failed to initialize because the window station is shutting down.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Application Popup
Event Category: None
Event ID: 26
Date: 3/22/2005
Time: 12:21:04 PM
User: N/A
Computer: BOBBY2
Description:
Application popup: drwtsn32.exe - DLL Initialization Failed : The application failed to initialize because the window station is shutting down.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

It seems that DrWatson wants to start but can not. Is there some reason why it should start? Everything on my computer works, except for this error message when I shut down. Am feeling very frustrated about not being able to solve this problem.
In th events log I also found 3 red X's with the following info:
1.The mrtRate service failed to start due to the following error. The system can not find the file specified
2. The nVidia WDM Video Capturwe(Universal) service failed to start due to the following error: The service cannot be started either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it
3.The nVidia WDM A/V Crossbar service failed to start due to the following error: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

Does anyone have any idea of what's going on here?

 

Disabling error reporting (dwwin.exe) is just hiding the fact that an exception is occuring, not that something didn't crash. I do not recommend following the advice in the article pete pointed to unless you understand the ramifications of not reporting exceptions.


The biggest complaint about the error reporting service is it causing alot of various applications to not load or crash during use.

This statement from that website is inaccurate. A program is crashing, and the error reporting tool invokes to collect data. It did not cause the crash, nor would it be running unless the crash occured and the system invoked the exception handler.

I'm sure the site has no malice in the advice, but masking a problem by disabling the thing that reports its occurance isnt a solution.

I spend part of my day looking at error reports generated by this tool. You are only hurting yourself (and others running the same software) by not reporting a crash. We pass crash information to vendors and our internal teams all the time. No report, no fix.