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Dear Sir,

I keep getting the following Error message.
Programme Error
" sychost.exe has generated eroors and will be closed by Windows.You wll need to restart the program. An error log is being created"

Once this message appears, I cannot reply any Email nor copy and paste anything. Everything is disabled. Earlier this use to appear once in a way, but now it appears every 10 minutes . I even tried to reload my operating system, XP-2000 , but nothing changed. It has changed from bad to worse. Can You help me..What shud I do to overcome..Pl help

Best Regards
B.G.Rama Mohan Rao, India

Your question is exactly what this article is all about. Have you followed the steps in the article?

Leo

Hello

All this makes a lot of sense relating to my problem, but the svchost on my system is failing at start-up, making it impossible to connect to internet to update windows, norton, etc.

I have internet connection on another system that works fine. Is there anyway I can use this system to fix the corrupted one?

Please help

Yours
Kez

Me again,

Just to clarify the extent of the problem, task manager will let me end the offending svchost but the system does not complete its boot, therefore the start menu does not open (mouse pointer turns 'busy' when in taskbar area) and no applications will start, although you can open windows and use win explorer.

Thanks again.

Kez

Can you boot if you are not connected to a network?

Can you boot in safe mode? If not, can you boot using the recovery console?

Leo

What is System Idle process in task manager of windows Xp.

Thank you... for your website.

I've been having problems with sluggish computers and added an anti-spyware program...
(so I've 1 more thing running) and your website gave me info on svchost... which I will NOT remove...

Thanks.

Hi leo, I ve been having problem on my win Xp sp1, with the svchost.exe (75% to 100% always). Trying to see what was wrong with the computer and following the posts in your site, I finally see in the event viewer / system, that the SSDP Discovery Service service was (The SSDP Discovery Service service was successfully sent a start control.)was always trying to do something, and then stops.
So Ive disable de SSdp discovery service, and my CPU usage finally got stable.
Thank u

Hello
once i connect to the internet the svchost.exe got most of the CPU usage ...
also another application generates an error , its something like NT AUTHORITY/.. and the system reboot.
i aslo found out the sapisvr.exe is always running with about 50%.

any suggestions please and thanks alot

The instructions in the article still apply. Have you tried them? Sapisvr is speach recognition software, which can be processor intensive. If you don't use it, turn speech recognition off.

Leo