Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Error

[Airiana]

I know you guys have had a lot of these in the past, but from looking through old threads, they're not exactly the same as the issue I'm dealing with. Hope you guys can help!

My problem is this, randomly, it seems, my computer comes up with the following error:

Generic Host Process for Win32 Services has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are

sorry for the inconvenience.

szAppName : svchost.exe szAppVer : 5.1.2600.5512 szModName : unknown
szModVer : 0.0.0.0 offset : 00000000

C:\DOCUME~1\Nate\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERf765.dir00\svchost.exe.mdmp
C:\DOCUME~1\Nate\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERf765.dir00\appcompat.txt

When looking into Event Viewer under the Application tab, this is what I find:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: (100)
Event ID: 1000
Date: 9/28/2008
Time: 4:41:19 AM
User: N/A
Computer: GALACTUS
Description:
Faulting application svchost.exe, version 5.1.2600.5512, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault

address 0x00000000.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 73 76 63 ure svc
0018: 68 6f 73 74 2e 65 78 65 host.exe
0020: 20 35 2e 31 2e 32 36 30 5.1.260
0028: 30 2e 35 35 31 32 20 69 0.5512 i
0030: 6e 20 75 6e 6b 6e 6f 77 n unknow
0038: 6e 20 30 2e 30 2e 30 2e n 0.0.0.
0040: 30 20 61 74 20 6f 66 66 0 at off
0048: 73 65 74 20 30 30 30 30 set 0000
0050: 30 30 30 30 0000

When this error occurs, I am not able to do much of anything. I can click the start menu, but nothing from there or anywhere else opens. I cannot even shut down properly, and am forced to do a hard reset. It starts up again as normal and everything seems fine. This seems to happen for no apparent reason. It has done this to me three times last night. The first time I was just browsing the internet, the second, I was playing WoW, and the third I was asleep, with only Windows Live Messenger running.

To further help, I have attached the logs for both HijackThis and GMER. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

 

[Airiana]

In case someone needs them, here are the computer's specs. Any help would be greatly appreciated. This random error is driving me nuts. I really hate having to hard reset my computer!

OS - Microsoft XP Pro SP3
Proc - Intel Core2 Duo 3 GHz
RAM - 3.25 GM of DDR3
Mobo - MSI P35D3 Platinum
HD - SATA, 232 GB capacity, currently 79.7 GB free
Vid - Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS
NIC - Realteck RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC
Linksys Wireless-N PCI Adapter

 

[vidhyadhara]

Hello,

I have the same problem.

szAppName : svchost.exe szAppVer : 5.1.2600.5512 szModName : unknown
szModVer : 0.0.0.0 offset : 00000000


C:\DOCUME~1\user\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERcde4.dir00\svchost.exe.mdmp
C:\DOCUME~1\user\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERcde4.dir00\appcompat.txt

Closing those two ports is not something everybody agrees about. I also don't know exactly what to do.
I have ran Hijackthis but dont know what to do with this.
I tried all kind of things with msconfig and regedit.

My computer runs just fine. Only i cannot update Windows update. And this is offcourse a big error.

Somebody can help me out?

Bart

 

[Airiana]

Hmmmm.
Have you tried the fix listed here:

http://cyberst0rm.blogspot.com/2008/...win32-and.html

Another fix can be found here:
http://cyberst0rm.blogspot.com/2008/...ror-three.html

Let me know if this helps!

Trying the first fix now. Will let you know if it works. Thanks for your help!