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i have just installed some critical updates from microsoft and when i rebooted i got a message saying that a generic host process for win32 services has encounted a problem and needs to close, the error report refers to something called svchost.exe, what is this and why do i have 5 of them runing at ne1 time? Also some of the previous updates with (SP2) after them have disappered from the unistall menu. Ne ideas?

Name: Johnw
Date: March 29, 2004 at 03:04:43 Pacific

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When a Windows Update Makes Things Worse http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,111126,00.asp http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,111126,pg,2,00.asp http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,111126,pg,3,00.asp http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,111126,pg,4,00.asp

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