The Quickbooks software is used by small as well as large organizations for financial book keeping. It was designed by Intuit Inc's and is extensively used for managing sales, inventory and payroll and other financial records by the organizations. However sometimes it gets corrupt and you may encounter error messages like quickbooks error qbw32.exe or any of the following:
"Runtime error! Program:\c:ProgramFiles\Intuit\QuickBooks Pro\qbw32.exe this application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information."
Qbw32.exe - Application Error The instruction at "0x564000e0" referenced memory at "0x02e74360." The memory could not be read.
AVMTimer:qbw32.exe - Application Error The instruction at "0x564000e0" referenced memory at "0x02e74360." The memory could not be read.
The Quickbooks software can easily get corrupt because of several reasons like abrupt system shutdown, application malfunction, virus attack, etc. All these may lead to severe data loss situations leading your organization towards huge losses.
The "qbw32.exe application error when closing quickbooks" can be the result of a damaged or corrupt company data file (.QBW file). It may also occur if the shortcut for Quickbooks application (QBW32.EXE) refers to the compatibility mode of MS Windows. To resolve the issue you should disable the compatibility mode for Windows desktop. You can achieve this by following the steps given below:
- On the desktop, right click on the Quickbooks icon.
- Click on Properties and select the 'Compatibility' tab.
- Uncheck 'Run this program in compatibility mode for' Click on OK.
Open the file. If it does not open properly then it means that Quickbooks is corrupt or damaged. In such a situation you need to uninstall the application. Thus, the only solution to fix quickbooks error qbw32.exe application is to uninstall the application. However, uninstalling the application may cause some data to be lost which may affect your organization. Therefore, create a backup of all the files stored in the application. But if you have not made proper backup and could not restore the data then you need to use a third party software for Quickbooks data recovery which can efficiently and safely recover all the lost data that you may have lost during the process of getting rid of the error.