Last night a blogger saved my life…
Posted by Michael Walsh (Check me out!) on March 20th, 2007
Tagged as: IT, Problems
Before I do anything today I wanted to share yesterday morning with you.
I normally get into the office at around 8.00, switch on the PC and either go and grab a coffee or sift through my notes getting ready to start the day.
Yesterday was just like any other only something weird happened when I booted up.
While the PC was going through the usual start up procedure, I noticed a little pop up message that I have seen on three occasions beforehand. On each one of those I had no choice but to reinstall Windows which wouldn’t be so bad if I could have reinstalled a series of other programs I had bought online (thanks Virtual Thesaurus).
Took about two days to get me back up and running.
Now I rack up a lot of computer hours but that doesn’t make me an IT pro, so when the window with the words
“svchost.exe — application error the instruction at “0×745f2780″ reference memory at “0×00000000″. the memory could not be ‘read’â€
popped up, I don’t know where to turn, particularly as the computer becomes unusable (no new executables would start).
As re-installing Windows is almost as traumatic as moving home or getting a divorce, I tried to think of what it was I had done to provoke this but the only thing I could remember was that Windows had run one of its scheduled automatic updates. Bingo. Windows had fried the PC!
Like most freelancers/consultants my PC is my lifeline. Without it I’m in apnoea.
This time I was determined not to lose everything so I googled the error message and found this which led me to a Microsoft patch that fixed the problem
Here’s the link: Download updates for Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Error and I thoroughly recommend you bookmark it for the day I hope never arrives for you.
More than thanking Scott Swigart and Chris Koester, who elicited comments like “You are a GOD!!!†I would like to ask Microsoft to investigate why this happens and STOP PUTTING MY BUSINESS AT RISK!
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Chris Koester wrote:
Happy to hear that my post was helpful to you.
Michael wrote:
You have no idea Chris.