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That little b****rd of a svchost error!! It has been causing me so much grief! Finaly get a brand spanky new laptop and within a month it gets THAT.
Anyway, Norton doesn't seemed to have helped much, but updating to the latest Service Pack deffinately worked! Thought I'd got it all sussed when it came back and bit me in the ass ¬_¬ Am currently running numerous scans in all AV and spybot software and DLing every useful thing I can find on Symantec. Thanks for all your info Mr. Leo, very useful!
Pray for me, I'm paranoid it's going to start rebooting itself again .__.

Hi everybody,

For those of you who are running windows 2000 on their PC or Laptop...

I have found that after installing service pack 3, the SVCHOST.EXE error is FIXED.

Just to be sure, after installing SP3 successfully, I suggest that you go to the microsoft windows update and get the latest stuff.

Hope it works for you,

Mike.

Actually that's mentioned in the article, and the latest Win2k service pack is SP4.

Yeah, I know that. This information is just for all those people who just post and don't bother reading the article.

Mike

Didn't seem to see this in the above discussion. I continue to have the warning/error: cannot find the file "svchost.exe" (or one of its components). Make sure the path and filename are correct and that all requried libraries are available. I have found the svchost file. I have done the tlist -s and noted the services that run for each of the svchost sessions(?). Now how do I know which one is the one that is causing the error and then how do I eliminate (delete it)? Any help would be great.

When does that happen?

Thank you Leo, my problem wasn't quite like the ones described in your article, but since it was quite similar, I gave it a shot... And it seems to be working. Here is what was happening:
I've been using Windows XP Pro on my primary workstation for at least one year without a problem. Recently I configured another PC in my personal LAN with Windows 2000 Server and began to use its log-in on all PCs (98se and XP). Then, most of the times I tried to log-off on my XP, the svchost process running RPC service would go to 100% and stayed there until a reboot. It din't happen everytime, but most of them. I visited the link in your article to Microsoft's hot fix, read it and, following it's instructions, my registry reported that it had already been installed. As the article posted that it would not harm to install it again, so I did. After a manual reboot, the problem appears to have disappeared. Recalling: My Windows XP started to go 100% svchost rpcss during log-off after it entered a Windows 2000 domain. I use ZoneAlarm on every PC, a proxy and Norton Antivirus.

Thank you.

In response to your question of when does my warning/error occur; during restart or startup only. After that it never occurs again.

I did a search on my C: drive for any instance of the services identified when I review svchost:RpcSs, EventSystem, NtmsSvc, RasMan, SENS, TapiSrv, and wuauserv. All had DLL files except for EventSystem. So I deduce that the non-existence of EventSystem is the reason I am receiving the warning/error at re-start and startup. So now how do I get back EventSystem DLL(?) or the appropriate file? Thanks for the help.

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