Normally I don’t post “personal” entries on here, either to do with my personal life and/or personal problems I’m having with my computer(s) but this one’s being a right pain and I’m actually concerned that other people may be having it too.
If you check out the Microsoft Online Crash Analysis (ID: 1501)Â then it explains basically what happens. As most of you know, the “Generic Host Process for Win32 Services” is “svchost.exe” in Task Manager. You’ll see that there’s usually at least 5 or 6 of them in Task Manager and it’s a very important service because it hosts other services and handles all the processes from DLL files – basically it’s a very important service and should never really be messed with unless you really know what you’re doing.
I sometimes turn my machine on and it’ll give me an error report saying that the “Generic Host Process for Win32 Services had to close” and it’ll let me report it. After I do so, it’ll take me to the Online Crash Analysis site as given above. Now this has only seemed to have happened on my laptop but on 5 different sets of operating systems and/or re-installations, and the problem only seems to come about after I install all the updates that it gives me. I’ve got Windows XP Media Center 2005 installed at the moment with all the updates, and it still happens. Is it just my laptop, or is it actually an automatic update which starts screwing things up?
There’s a fix available for this problem and it says that it’s a problem that happens when you install the update MS05-012, however it doesn’t freakin’ work! I’m really stumped to be honest – has anyone else got this error or seen it before? Has anyone got any information? Why the hell isn’t Microsoft doing something about it? Here’s my system information here and obviously take out the “sensitive” data – if anyone wants to look at it, feel free and let me know if anyone’s got any ideas.
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Update by Jabez: According to a comment left by RRasco, the fix #2 from http://www.sizlopedia.com/2007/04/28/fix-generic-host-for-win32-process-error/ worked for him. Give it a shot!