every time I turn on my computer, it says svchost has stopped working, please help.
svchost has stopped working
- Thread starter donald680
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"svchost" just means Service Host, and is a generic name for any number of processes. The most obvious suspect on start up would be a device that is not workin gproperly. Check the Device Manager for errors.
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Proudly Built by Me!
- CPU
- Intel Q6600
- Motherboard
- DFI UT LP P35 T2R
- Memory
- 8GB OCZ Reaper DDR2 800 C44GK 4-4-4-12 2T
- Graphics Card(s)
- Sapphire Radeon 4870x2
- Sound Card
- AuzenTech Prelude 7.1
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 1 Acer P243 24" and 1 Samsung T260 26" Monitor/HDTV
- Screen Resolution
- Both are running at 19x12
- Hard Drives
- Seagate 1TB 7200.11 (Vista x64)
Seagate 500GB 7200.11 (Win 7 x64)
- PSU
- OCZ GameXtream 900w
- Other Info
- FSB at 400 (1600) Mhz, CPU Multi @ 8 for 3.2Ghz
I had the same problem in Windows 7 Professional.
svchost.exe ran at start up and it blocked all the system.
I opened the Task Manager (hardly); with the right button, i clicked on the svchost.exe application, which gained more and more of the RAM and the CPU; then I clicked on Open File Location and, surprisingly, I was sent to a folder C:\Users\[current user]\AppData\Roaming\dll, in which there was svchost.exe (otherwise, I had svchost.exe in System32, also). I forcely ended the svchost.exe application, then I deleted all the content of the DLL folder, from the above.
Thus, the system began to work normally.
I think there was a virus or something like this.
svchost.exe ran at start up and it blocked all the system.
I opened the Task Manager (hardly); with the right button, i clicked on the svchost.exe application, which gained more and more of the RAM and the CPU; then I clicked on Open File Location and, surprisingly, I was sent to a folder C:\Users\[current user]\AppData\Roaming\dll, in which there was svchost.exe (otherwise, I had svchost.exe in System32, also). I forcely ended the svchost.exe application, then I deleted all the content of the DLL folder, from the above.
Thus, the system began to work normally.
I think there was a virus or something like this.