Vista - Host Process for Windows Services Stopped Working and was Closed

After my computer has been idle for a few hours I find a dialog box with the
message saying the Host Process has stopped working. When I click the close
button, I see a help ICON in my system tray. When I click, up pops a Windows
Help and Support box. It's open to a section titled "What is Data Execution
Prevention?". It gives an explanation of DEP.

Does anyone know why this is happening? It's more of an annoyance than a
major problem, but I wonder if there's something wrong that I need to
address, or if this happens because something tries to execute while my
computer is in sleep mode.

Thanks,
Dan

I just purchased a new computer with Vista and am
getting the same message when windows starts.
How can we fix this?

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Use your event logs in the Admin tools and try to trace back and find the culprit/culprits. I have had this happen once and it was due to a faulty driver.

You need need to provide us with more info. The Event log will help. Use the Problem Reports and Solutions inside the control panel to give you a rough date and time and then back track through the Event Log.

i had this same thing happen. the first time i ignored it but i could not use my fingerprint reader about the same time. the program ran but i could not get it to read the fingerprint to get on to anything. after reloading the software for the fingerprint it worked.

then i got the host process error again. and again the fingerprint read would not work. so i turned off the protection that causes the problem and rebooted and now the fingerprint reader worked without reloading the program.

so why would microsoft think that the fingerprint read software is mal-ware? hope this helps. i found the cmd statement to turn off the protection on another site.

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