Greetings Kenny,

Nope, not part of Messenger. A search brings up a variety of possibilities:
http://www.google.com/search?q=dw.exe
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"kenny" <nope@at.all> wrote in message news:eY69T%23mDGHA.2040@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>I found this in the messenger folder.. is this a normal component of msn messenger?
>
> Whenever I close my computer this gives me an error before is shuts down..
> something like it cannot make a report...
>
> I have renamed it now to dw.exe.bak
>
> is this a problem?
>
> Thanks
>