UPDATE (for those interested): This did not fix the problem. UAC acted as
normal for about an hour and then it started crashing DWM.exe again. So I
guess I'm still looking for some hints/suggestions/anything.
Much obliged.
Matt
"Matt" wrote:
Quote:
> Hello all.
>
> I've got an interesting problem. When performing some very specific actions
> that engage UAC (i.e. snipping tool, running unknown [to Windows]
> applications), about 50% of the time, dwm.exe crashes. Now, since this is
> protected from being debugged (understandably), I'm having trouble
> diagnosing/solving it. Here are my specs:
>
> Intel core 2 quad (Q6600)
> 4GB RAM
> Vista Ultimate 64bit
> Dual nvidia 8600GT video cards
>
> I've updated all of drivers, so I don't think this is the issue. This first
> started happening (though not immediately) after I overclocked my CPU (back
> to defaults now, but still happening). Here's the full text of the event log
> msg:
>
> Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
> Application Name: Dwm.exe
> Application Version: 6.0.6000.16386
> Application Timestamp: 4549b7e9
> Fault Module Name: msvcrt.dll
> Fault Module Version: 7.0.6000.16386
> Fault Module Timestamp: 4549d2e1
> Exception Code: c0000005
> Exception Offset: 00000000000017db
> OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
> Locale ID: 1033
> Additional Information 1: c541
> Additional Information 2: cee0f0a18f48f40265d6a5cb5749171e
> Additional Information 3: 23b6
> Additional Information 4: d9a48ac0288f7eddc923475806eaae11
>
> I'm pretty stumped and would love some direction. Thanks.
>
> Matt