Memory could not be written error

[KrisC]

I have a win xp pro ibm laptop. it has 512mb memory and a 3 gig processor.

I have everything turned off so they dont autostart. Norton comes back with nada, spybot,adaware,and spysweeper all come up clean.

I keep getting this error:

svchost.exe Application error.

The instruction at "0x00999eec" referenced memory at 0x00000000." The memory could not be "Written."

Click OK to terminate the program
Click CANCEL to debug the program.

What is this and how do I fix it?

 

[Markbnj]

That module, scvhost.exe, is a generic process that loads service DLLs and passes control to them. So it really is just a host process.

Some service is faulting out, likely due to some other condition like a bad registry entry, corrupted file, or failure to handle some other error condition gracefully.

Go into Services in Control Panel, or run services.msc from the Start Menu, and then disable unessential services one at a time until the problem goes away. You can use msconfig.exe to shut off all nonessential services at once, just to make sure that the problem disappears, and then reenable them one by one until it comes back.

 

[KrisC]

Thanks, thats just what I needed.