RE: XP updates 14/1/2007 failed - Now have SVCHOST.EXE failures

you can restore your system in the bios, turn on your system click "F2"
button repeatedly as your system begins to reboot, you will need to know what
to look for, I advised take a self guided tour through the bios and very
carefully explore your options, this may help it will also give you more info
about your system, and if you make no changes no harm done . but you must
read all instructions carefully, including the navigation instruction in the
lower right hant corner of the screen. Or you may want to use the system
recovery CD that came with your ststem, you can boot your system with it
from the bios screen also, PLEASE READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY ! Good
Luck ! Tell me how it turns out. also if you get to your system control
panel, there is a restore option, very simple process. My e-mail is


"Dick" wrote:

> On closing down my PC, it advised that 5 updates where available and ready to
> Install. Accepting them it commenced installing 1 of 5 and then an SVCHOST
> error message appeared. Aknowledged the message, windows XP then advised not
> to turn off the PC as it would do so automatically, 7 hours later it was
> still the same. Powered off and re-started, now after 3 or 4 minutes SVCHOST
> error message appears and locks XP, will not respond to Ctrl/Alt/Del, have to
> hold the power button for 10 seconds to turn off.
>
> Any ideas?

I had the same problem, think this KB is the one to look at:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916089/




"Dick" <> skrev i meddelandet
news:64EA3C51-AE30-4240-BCB1-...
> Problem resolved as follows:
>
> Instead of acknowledging the SVCHOST.EXE popup error which was resulting
> in
> XP then hanging, I moved it out of the way and ran Windows Update again.
> It
> then recognised that the 5 updates had been downloaded and were ready for
> installation. Having completed the Install of the 5 updates and restarted
> the
> PC, problem has gone away. No idea what caused it to hang in the first
> place,
> but it was also waiting for Java JSE runtime version 5 update 10 to be
> installed. Have also checked that no viruses etc present, and pleased to
> say
> there are none (detected!) SO, count myself lucky this time, I may out of
> caution elect not to apply updates on shut down in future, but ensure the
> PC
> is cleanly re-booted and then allow the updates to be installed.
>
> "Larry Patterson" wrote:
>
>> you can restore your system in the bios, turn on your system click
>> "F2"
>> button repeatedly as your system begins to reboot, you will need to know
>> what
>> to look for, I advised take a self guided tour through the bios and very
>> carefully explore your options, this may help it will also give you more
>> info
>> about your system, and if you make no changes no harm done . but you must
>> read all instructions carefully, including the navigation instruction in
>> the
>> lower right hant corner of the screen. Or you may want to use the system
>> recovery CD that came with your ststem, you can boot your system with it
>> from the bios screen also, PLEASE READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY !
>> Good
>> Luck ! Tell me how it turns out. also if you get to your system control
>> panel, there is a restore option, very simple process. My e-mail is
>>
>>
>> "Dick" wrote:
>>
>> > On closing down my PC, it advised that 5 updates where available and
>> > ready to
>> > Install. Accepting them it commenced installing 1 of 5 and then an
>> > SVCHOST
>> > error message appeared. Aknowledged the message, windows XP then
>> > advised not
>> > to turn off the PC as it would do so automatically, 7 hours later it
>> > was
>> > still the same. Powered off and re-started, now after 3 or 4 minutes
>> > SVCHOST
>> > error message appears and locks XP, will not respond to Ctrl/Alt/Del,
>> > have to
>> > hold the power button for 10 seconds to turn off.
>> >
>> > Any ideas?

This has happened to at least six separate clients of mine over the last
week. I've never had this problem before, but all of the sudden, here and
there, it's happened. Not the same company, or network. I am surprised that
more people aren't complaining about it. If it happened to six of my
customers, thousands more must have had an issue.

I will try out some of the above recommendations, but I found disabling the
Automatic Updates service keeps it from crashing. I think it also has to do
with having Microsoft Updates enabled, so I disable that activex control in
IE properties.

"Mikael Erkas" wrote:

> I had the same problem, think this KB is the one to look at:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916089/
>
>
>
>
> "Dick" <> skrev i meddelandet
> news:64EA3C51-AE30-4240-BCB1-...
> > Problem resolved as follows:
> >
> > Instead of acknowledging the SVCHOST.EXE popup error which was resulting
> > in
> > XP then hanging, I moved it out of the way and ran Windows Update again.
> > It
> > then recognised that the 5 updates had been downloaded and were ready for
> > installation. Having completed the Install of the 5 updates and restarted
> > the
> > PC, problem has gone away. No idea what caused it to hang in the first
> > place,
> > but it was also waiting for Java JSE runtime version 5 update 10 to be
> > installed. Have also checked that no viruses etc present, and pleased to
> > say
> > there are none (detected!) SO, count myself lucky this time, I may out of
> > caution elect not to apply updates on shut down in future, but ensure the
> > PC
> > is cleanly re-booted and then allow the updates to be installed.
> >
> > "Larry Patterson" wrote:
> >
> >> you can restore your system in the bios, turn on your system click
> >> "F2"
> >> button repeatedly as your system begins to reboot, you will need to know
> >> what
> >> to look for, I advised take a self guided tour through the bios and very
> >> carefully explore your options, this may help it will also give you more
> >> info
> >> about your system, and if you make no changes no harm done . but you must
> >> read all instructions carefully, including the navigation instruction in
> >> the
> >> lower right hant corner of the screen. Or you may want to use the system
> >> recovery CD that came with your ststem, you can boot your system with it
> >> from the bios screen also, PLEASE READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY !
> >> Good
> >> Luck ! Tell me how it turns out. also if you get to your system control
> >> panel, there is a restore option, very simple process. My e-mail is
> >>
> >>
> >> "Dick" wrote:
> >>
> >> > On closing down my PC, it advised that 5 updates where available and
> >> > ready to
> >> > Install. Accepting them it commenced installing 1 of 5 and then an
> >> > SVCHOST
> >> > error message appeared. Aknowledged the message, windows XP then
> >> > advised not
> >> > to turn off the PC as it would do so automatically, 7 hours later it
> >> > was
> >> > still the same. Powered off and re-started, now after 3 or 4 minutes
> >> > SVCHOST
> >> > error message appears and locks XP, will not respond to Ctrl/Alt/Del,
> >> > have to
> >> > hold the power button for 10 seconds to turn off.
> >> >
> >> > Any ideas?
>
>
>