DWWIN.EXE
by Microsoft
Operating System
Summary
Dr. Watson Postmortem Debugger - legacy Windows error reporting tool that collects crash information.
DWWIN.EXE is the 1239th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,185 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\SysWOW64 and it is most often launched by EXCEL.EXE.
1239th
most commonly executed Windows program
1,185
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\SysWOW6472.49%
- C:\Windows\System3227.51%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 1dfad5f5658611191fcfec033d9e4afc583c460d3327709ce4a09d2966e576c138%
- d145fb539671f90d96571b22d5168cbfbf84ce2ff2665c3c344183b36c83ab3619.85%
- 5ea8c7ce72c3122b86286205c444a20952df581bbdf24fa6e2a172fe0d06439e17.73%
- 7330a7f614fab54c900d2de1b7c3f8b583225cf0396da04e800129c9a6fe908d5%
- 489b53100bc916f2ac92593e6c6d11853e253f028b13197417af98687cd167744.41%
- 3aa66e5794678e7d44752a6b34078a2f9e49b5104dfb9b100c7b46c775a038103.48%
- 3fec68d52ea4bdc0c10474989be1a133ad8cce70ca82ef4c618446b0fda80bfb2.37%
- 49d9ac47c044764a56f7bc6f154fb61a46e5600da7beb102b9c380da7d7ddd2d1.53%
- c3bd45be64119aa6655d7f9ba1860bf137b9e2d6657dbdb3a92fa019af7e17be1.44%
- d7384c726cf283f51e7dd0a29e55db5f5d59523179f1eb8ddbcf65603fd06d1c1.36%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- OUTLOOK.EXE73.64%
- lync.exe11.93%
- EXCEL.EXE6.74%
- WINWORD.EXE2.59%
- POWERPNT.EXE1.64%
- VISIO.EXE1.47%
- GROOVE.EXE1.04%
- MSOSYNC.EXE0.35%
- ONENOTE.EXE0.09%
Top Parents
- EXCEL.EXE0.25%
- OUTLOOK.EXE0.17%
- lync.exe0.08%
- WINWORD.EXE0.08%
Top Children
- OUTLOOK.EXE82.52%
- lync.exe8.05%
- EXCEL.EXE4.24%
- GROOVE.EXE1.17%
- WINWORD.EXE1.17%
- POWERPNT.EXE1.06%
- VISIO.EXE0.85%
- MSOSYNC.EXE0.32%
- WerFault.exe0.32%
- ONENOTE.EXE0.11%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.