I've done a search on here and couldn't find any thing so I hope I'm not going over old ground
Anyway
A couple of weeks a go I started having probs with a file called svchost.exe hogging my cpu, taking up 100% of it sometimes causing my comp to slow right down, I would go into task manger and close the offending file and, at first, that would cure the problem. Then , after a while of doing this sometimes the sound on my PC would go, I don't have a separate sound card, but would come back after re-booting. I have scanned for viruses or anything else with AVG and Malwarebytes and both found nothing..
Then, recently things have got worse. Now,when I boot up all is OK for a short period of time and the I get an error message saying "generic host process for win32 services error" and I have to click close on the message, after the comp seems to run OK but with no sound, I have even tried with an external USB sound card and still cannot get sound and even if I re-boot it only lasts a short time with sound before it goes again
I have tried various fixes I have found through searching, checking the registry for errors, amongst others I then ran my manufacturers recovery disk to re-install Windows and I still have the same problem
I'm running XP with service pack 3
Can anyone PLEASE help?
Anyway
A couple of weeks a go I started having probs with a file called svchost.exe hogging my cpu, taking up 100% of it sometimes causing my comp to slow right down, I would go into task manger and close the offending file and, at first, that would cure the problem. Then , after a while of doing this sometimes the sound on my PC would go, I don't have a separate sound card, but would come back after re-booting. I have scanned for viruses or anything else with AVG and Malwarebytes and both found nothing..
Then, recently things have got worse. Now,when I boot up all is OK for a short period of time and the I get an error message saying "generic host process for win32 services error" and I have to click close on the message, after the comp seems to run OK but with no sound, I have even tried with an external USB sound card and still cannot get sound and even if I re-boot it only lasts a short time with sound before it goes again
I have tried various fixes I have found through searching, checking the registry for errors, amongst others I then ran my manufacturers recovery disk to re-install Windows and I still have the same problem
I'm running XP with service pack 3
Can anyone PLEASE help?