"Generic Host Process - " problem


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I have Win XP home edition with service pack 2. Upon bootup I sometimes get a window saying "Generic host process for Win 32 services encountered a problem and had to close." I also notice my computer has been running slow lately, though I did a C drive defrag around a month ago. The disk is NOT full.

What is this problem, and can it be fixed?

Thank you for any information you can provide.

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  OPaul said:
See if there's anymore information in the Event Viewer.

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Thanks for the response.

All the events listed for today appear to be normal and successful. There appears to be no record of this notice being presented, or any cause for it.

Howard,

I seem to recall that this message maybe something to do with right click, meaning the context menu has a problem with a program. I saw this error message loads of times and it didnt report anything in event viewer.

I recently did a build on some laptops and I did get this error message when logged in. Administrator seems to not get the error but my user account did. This was a clean laptop image with just the drivers installed. I did find that uninstalling the WAN Driver Software made the error go away. I then made a ghost image and put it on several other laptops and then it came back but not on all laptops.

I think I will run a chkdsk myself on these laptops and a memdiag to see if anything appears.

  John said:
Generic Host Process is svchost.exe, or the process used by your system services. That window means one of your services crashed. Look in your event viewer and open the System log. Find any errors and post them here.

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It seems to be DCOM errors in the System Log. Complaining about permissions within component services. Once I went into Component Services, Windows Firewall came up with Would you like to keep blocking Microsoft Management Console? Unblock and hey presto seems to have cured it. Still running a few tests on this tho.

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