Hi Tommy,
Uninstall the Norton software, see if the problems go away.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts
http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
"Tommy Vielkanowitz" <TommyVielkanowitz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Ok, this is actually several questions, but this is the most annoying one.
> I
> am running Windows Vista Ultimate on an AMD 2900+ with 2gb physical ram
> and a
> geforce 7600 gs video card with 512mb ram. I keep getting Windows errors
> saying that the Host process for Windows has stopped working and was
> closed.
> I have the log file, and can post it if anybody wants to take a look at
> it,
> but any ideas on how to fix this would be appreciated.
>
> Also Internet Explorer, Limewire and Azureus will randomly crash, and
> Norton
> AntiVirus will sometimes say that it can't run. This has been going on
> about
> a week or so, and I haven't installed any new software besides windows
> updates during that time.
>
> Last bit is that searchindexer.exe and svchost.exe were running
> constantly,
> each taking up around 48-50% of the CPU time each, (100% cpu usage) until
> I
> stopped the Windows Search service.
>
> I feel that all of these are related, as they all started happening about
> the same time, and due to the lack of error codes that I could find, makes
> it
> rather harder for me to troubleshoot on my own.
>
> Anyway, thanks for any advice on trying to fix this problem
>
> --Tommy Vielkanowitz