svchost.exe has generated errors - a posible solution?
Like other victims of the svchost mischief on Windows 2000 Professional (and perhaps other Windows OSs), I tried all the available nostrums (Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 31961, Novell Technical Information Document 10051906, etc.) and downloaded and ran the W32.Blaster Removal Tool (from Symantec Security Response), as advised by pcanswers.co.uk, but to no avail. Svchost is delinquent because Microsoft and Novell did not put their heads together when MS first launched Windows 2k, and woke up to the problem only in July 2000. These esteemed corporate giants have however not thought of providing a free and effective resolution of the travails of pre-July 2000 Windows 2k users. After becoming (like Lear) a 'King of shreds and patches' in my wanderings through cyberland, and resigning myself to persistent (and lately, audacious) svchost disruption of my surfing, I recently hit upon a rather simple solution, derived from bits of info gleaned from the net. (1) Go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services(Local) [or else Run> SERVICES.MSC /S]. (2) Scroll down the right pane and select Remote Procedure Call (RPC). (3) On the taskbar atop the Services Window, click on the black right-pointing arrowhead, just after the Help icon. This will restart the RPC service (which stops when svchost generates errors) and then surf merrily on. (4) Repeat this every time svchost acts up. I have found this useful for up to four times in a row with svchost capers. However, this does not restore the Web-view of Folders (such as Control Panel) that is disorganised by svchost errors and also does not solve the problem of dialling-up the connection in case it switches off mid-session. Kindred sufferers, please post your experiences with this artifice and please explain the theoretics and logic thereof.
