Generic Host Process for Win32 Services

[James]

I'm totally baffled on this one. Yesterday, my neighbor's eMachine [WinXP
Home] began displaying a window titled "Generic Host Process for Win32
Services." No matter what action she chose ['send' 'don't sent' 'X'], she
was unable to access any website until rebooting. Upon rebooting, all was
well - until the next appearance of GHP for Win32 - which, may be in a few
more minutes.

I searched Google - and found no solution.

She's running Mozilla Firefox 0.9.2 and no firewall. Did the usual:
Ad-aware, Spybot, Norton scan - unrelated, I think.

How can I get rid of this problem? [I did learn it's part 'n parcel of
svchost.exe] [Until yesterday, this GHP window never appeared]

Thanks,

James

 

[Tom Hall]

I'm totally baffled on this one. Yesterday, my neighbor's eMachine [WinXP
Home] began displaying a window titled "Generic Host Process for Win32
Services." No matter what action she chose ['send' 'don't sent' 'X'], she
was unable to access any website until rebooting. Upon rebooting, all was
well - until the next appearance of GHP for Win32 - which, may be in a few
more minutes.

About once every week or so, I get this error just as WinXP has finished
its startup routine: "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services has
encountered a problem and must close. Sorry for any inconvenience." and
a whole bunch of memory seems to suddenly become freed up. In my case,
however, whenever this happens, I have no sounds. Wav files won't play
in WMP, Control Panel => Sounds and Audio Devices reports "no audio
device", yet Device Manager sees the sound card and says "device is
working properly".

If I restart Windows right away, all is well.

Tom

 

[Guest]

I'm experiencing exactly the same thing- no sounds, same error message. Found
that I could get the sound working again by uninstalling/installing the sound
card. Also have not been able to get Restore to work at all- won't even
launch, but I think that might have something to do with the new hard disk I
installed, replaced the original 80gb with a 200gb. Or not. Anyway, did you
ever find a fix for the problem? Like you , I've tried about everything-
scanned for viruses, etc. HELP!

I'm totally baffled on this one. Yesterday, my neighbor's eMachine [WinXP
Home] began displaying a window titled "Generic Host Process for Win32
Services." No matter what action she chose ['send' 'don't sent' 'X'], she
was unable to access any website until rebooting. Upon rebooting, all was
well - until the next appearance of GHP for Win32 - which, may be in a few
more minutes.

About once every week or so, I get this error just as WinXP has finished
its startup routine: "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services has
encountered a problem and must close. Sorry for any inconvenience." and
a whole bunch of memory seems to suddenly become freed up. In my case,
however, whenever this happens, I have no sounds. Wav files won't play
in WMP, Control Panel => Sounds and Audio Devices reports "no audio
device", yet Device Manager sees the sound card and says "device is
working properly".

If I restart Windows right away, all is well.

Tom

 

[Guest]

I'm experiencing exactly the same thing- no sounds, same error message. Found
that I could get the sound working again by uninstalling/installing the sound
card. Also have not been able to get Restore to work at all- won't even
launch, but I think that might have something to do with the new hard disk I
installed, replaced the original 80gb with a 200gb. Or not. Anyway, did you
ever find a fix for the problem? Like you , I've tried about everything-
scanned for viruses, etc. HELP!

I'm totally baffled on this one. Yesterday, my neighbor's eMachine [WinXP
Home] began displaying a window titled "Generic Host Process for Win32
Services." No matter what action she chose ['send' 'don't sent' 'X'], she
was unable to access any website until rebooting. Upon rebooting, all was
well - until the next appearance of GHP for Win32 - which, may be in a few
more minutes.

About once every week or so, I get this error just as WinXP has finished
its startup routine: "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services has
encountered a problem and must close. Sorry for any inconvenience." and
a whole bunch of memory seems to suddenly become freed up. In my case,
however, whenever this happens, I have no sounds. Wav files won't play
in WMP, Control Panel => Sounds and Audio Devices reports "no audio
device", yet Device Manager sees the sound card and says "device is
working properly".

If I restart Windows right away, all is well.

Tom

 

[Ricky]

Some info here..
http://forums.thetechguys.com/showthread.php?t=14350
http://forum.tweakxp.com/forum/shwmessage.aspx?ForumID=1&MessageID=146033

--
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Farmers' Almanac

I'm experiencing exactly the same thing- no sounds, same error message.
Found
that I could get the sound working again by uninstalling/installing the
sound
card. Also have not been able to get Restore to work at all- won't even
launch, but I think that might have something to do with the new hard disk
I
installed, replaced the original 80gb with a 200gb. Or not. Anyway, did
you
ever find a fix for the problem? Like you , I've tried about everything-
scanned for viruses, etc. HELP!

I'm totally baffled on this one. Yesterday, my neighbor's eMachine
[WinXP
Home] began displaying a window titled "Generic Host Process for Win32
Services." No matter what action she chose ['send' 'don't sent' 'X'],
she
was unable to access any website until rebooting. Upon rebooting, all
was
well - until the next appearance of GHP for Win32 - which, may be in a
few
more minutes.

About once every week or so, I get this error just as WinXP has finished
its startup routine: "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services has
encountered a problem and must close. Sorry for any inconvenience." and
a whole bunch of memory seems to suddenly become freed up. In my case,
however, whenever this happens, I have no sounds. Wav files won't play
in WMP, Control Panel => Sounds and Audio Devices reports "no audio
device", yet Device Manager sees the sound card and says "device is
working properly".

If I restart Windows right away, all is well.

Tom

 

[Guest]

Thank you, thank you! This worked for me. I had installed an HP Photosmart
All In One just after Christmas and I had also just recently reinstalled
Norton so I wasn't sure if either or both were part of the problem. (I had
noticed especially today that I was having to manually enable the Auto-On as
far as the Norton.)

Anyhow, I'm new to this kind of support and even though I made some stupid
novice errors and had to uninstall and reinstall my HP, the link and fix to
the driver seems to have corrected my annoying "Generic Host Process for
Win32 Services" message.