svchost.exe error: svchost.exe has generated an error - now what do I do?

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Thanks Leo. Will try to find "friend" to download the SP4 "Network Installation" to another computer and burn it to CD-ROM. I thought of this but wasn't sure a CD could be burned (as I'm not that computer savvy).

i had apply patch KB823980 and it work now i ahd no problem thanks leo

Howdy all

Very similar problem to all listed above... I have reformatted and reinstalled three times with Win2k, have tried 2x express install, and have downloaded (+6hrs over dialup) network sp4 install, with the KB823980 patch...

My problem now (and was also on Tuesday last week - it's been over a week now) is that after I formatted, installed the patch, then the KB823980 patch, is that I can no longer connect to the internet at all.

Totally flummoxed. Am posting from my parents place... will check again tomorrow to see if anyone has any ideas, happy to provide more detail.

Cheers
Rene

Further to the above post:

I can connect to the internet, but I get absolutely no data transfer, and can not surf pages at all....

Any ideas anyone?

It would help to know specifically *how* things fail - error messages and such. The results of "ipconfig /all" run in a command shell would be helpful when you're connected.

Leo

Hi Leo

Apologies for the vague post - after I connected completely shut down ZoneAlarm completely, my internet connection started to work again - am posting from home.

All good

Cheers
Rene

Excellent. All's well that ends well, as they say :-).

Leo

I am continuously facing this problem of windows 2K svchost.exe error and u need to restart windows. I cant disconnect internet. I do have installed SP4 my Norton Antivirus is also updated. No virus is found upon scanning, but the problem persists, can some one plz help me with some suggestions.

I'm running Windows XP and my problem with svchost.exe is that it uses so many resources that my CPU is constantly at 100%. This makes it almost impossible to do anything on the internet because pages load extremely slowly. I have just reinstalled Windows XP on a new hard drive so I'm sure this is not a hardware problem.

I'm thinking that it might be the virus problem you mentioned before, but I'm not sure. I know there is a patch for Windows 2000, but is there one for Windows XP as well?

There is, but most people are getting it via the auto-update feature in XP. You might want to visit http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and get your system up-to-date.

Good luck!

Leo

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