User profile service has stopped working. Help please!

hi everyone,
Wasn't sure where to post this so i'll give it a shot here.



Lately my pc has been acting up; random BSOD (memory management error
which hasnt happened ever since I scanned my system) and appcrash errors
(which happen regularly and always on startup.
I ran both a virus scan and a spyware scan and it came up, surprisingly
with a few threats, cleaned them but now i'm getting the following
error.

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Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: svchost.exe_ProfSvc
Application Version: 6.0.6001.18000
Application Timestamp: 47918b89
Fault Module Name: repdrvfs.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6001.18000
Fault Module Timestamp: 4791a770
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0000224e
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 1669
Additional Information 2: 4358e861bb412b077a9b51e3cb00cd6e
Additional Information 3: 1aee
Additional Information 4: d45bfa0b5e7e30341cdf21ab541e339e




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It's not just the User profile that crashes, sometimes it's some other
random Vista Feature which I cannot remember.

I've tried turning off DEP but i am not sure which programs I should be
running with DEP off.

I'm running Vista Ultimate 32bit, 4gb ram, 3.2ghz duo core.

Any assistance/info would be much appreciated. Thank you


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vlaka

vlaka wrote:

> Lately my pc has been acting up; random BSOD (memory management error
> which hasnt happened ever since I scanned my system) and appcrash errors
> (which happen regularly and always on startup.
> I ran both a virus scan and a spyware scan and it came up, surprisingly
> with a few threats, cleaned them but now i'm getting the following
> error.

> Problem signature:
> Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
> Application Name: svchost.exe_ProfSvc
> Application Version: 6.0.6001.18000
> Application Timestamp: 47918b89
> Fault Module Name: repdrvfs.dll
> Fault Module Version: 6.0.6001.18000
> Fault Module Timestamp: 4791a770
> Exception Code: c0000005
> Exception Offset: 0000224e
> OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
> Locale ID: 1033
> Additional Information 1: 1669
> Additional Information 2: 4358e861bb412b077a9b51e3cb00cd6e
> Additional Information 3: 1aee
> Additional Information 4: d45bfa0b5e7e30341cdf21ab541e339e

> It's not just the User profile that crashes, sometimes it's some other
> random Vista Feature which I cannot remember.
>
> I've tried turning off DEP but i am not sure which programs I should be
> running with DEP off.
>
> I'm running Vista Ultimate 32bit, 4gb ram, 3.2ghz duo core.

The repdrvfs.dll is part of Vista. Because of the random nature of your
crashes, I would start by testing the RAM.

You can test the memory yourself. I believe that Vista has a memory tester,
but I like Memtest86+ from www.memtest.org. Obviously, you have to get the
program from a working machine. You will download the .iso to make a
bootable cd. Burn the file with third-party burning software - as an image,
not as data. Then boot with the media you made (you may need to change the
boot priority in your BIOS so that the optical drive is the first boot
device). The test will run immediately. Let the test run for an hour or two
- unless errors are seen immediately. If you get any errors, replace the
RAM. I buy all my RAM from Crucial.com, but of course you don't need to. I
just mention them because they are excellent and sell quality RAM. You
don't want to skimp and buy bargain RAM.

Malke
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