svchost.exe problems

Corrosive Monkey

Everynow and then my computer throws a fit and gives me an erro message saying that svchost.exe failed to work. I found out that it is a windows start up item, so I downloaded Regcure and ran that, and I scan my computer for viruses, and it will go away. But after a couple of weeks, it will just happen over again. Has anyone got any advice on how to fix this problem for good?

DrFrylock

svchost problems are hard to diagnose because they are generic host processes for all your Windows services (many of which are necessary and beneficial to you).

Pop open a command prompt and run:

tasklist /svc

Which should give you a list of running processes. Some of these will include svchost processes with lists of the windows services running in them. Do this before you get your svchost errors.

After you get the svchost error, run it again and see what's missing. If, presumably, a whole process has gone down, you can possibly narrow down which service is causing problems and work from there.

Marty81

Sweet, I never knew about that command. Back when I had svchost problems I downloaded a program called WinPatrol that lets you see which dll's svchost is running, but I can't vouch for its legitimacy or anything.

Corrosive Monkey

I have tried the command prompt but when I type tasklist /svc it says that 'tasklist' is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

focused7

->Start ->Run then do this instead

tasklist /svc >c:\taskList.txt

it will output the list to a text file