An occasional user logs into the Visitor account on this Windows XP SP3 machine. After that user has gone, logging off of the Visitor account is interrupted by the “DDE Server is being shut down” message.
The DDE functions are disabled in Services, so it is probably not running.
My guess is that Windows shutdown is delayed by its attempt to shut down a service that another program has attempted to start, but which is not being run, and has never completed the startup process.
The user of the Visitor account closes the applications he uses when he leaves the ocmputer, but that apparently does not notify Windows to stop attempting to run the DDE Server Window.
Two questions:
1) Is the assumption that the shutdown of a disabled & non started DDE server results in the message reasonable?
2) How do I identify what program is invoking and attempting to use the “Windows DDE Server?
