- Mar 22, 2006
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Lately, my Windows Vista x64 has been behaving very strangely. The problems include:
1) upon startup, oftentimes (but not all the time), Windows will tell me "Host Process for Windows Services has stopped working" (l=pic]http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/Aflac/ScreenShot055.jpg[/l]). This is almost immediately upon startup, maybe about 30 seconds into it (my system takes about a full minute to become responsive after starting up, since I have so many programs set to run at startup). Sometimes, Aero will disappear for a little bit (bad example - see how the menu is all Windows95-ish... a few seconds before this screenshot, the start menu changed to Windows95-style as well, but then popped back). Sometimes, Aero will remain fine; once, Aero shut down and wouldn't resurrect itself (not even an option anymore in Windows Color and Appearance).
2) Sometimes, the Remote Access Manager will shut down, in a manner very similar to the Host Process shutdown (example
). Usually, this one shuts down Aero more often than the Host Process shutdown does. It happened randomly while I was looking at a Wikipedia page, not touching the computer.
3) Sometimes, one of my two network connections will not connect (the LAN connection wouldn't authenticate itself for a few days, but then fixed itself, and now the wireless connection says the authentication server will not work, which is not true).
4) Tinkering with my network connections will usually cause the Remote Access Connection Manager to crash. Usually the catalyst is enabling and disabling one of my connections, though I've gotten the crash a few times when Windows tried to diagnose and fix the network connection problem.
EDIT: 5) I just enabled my wireless connection; it connected, but then the Host Process for Windows Services crashed. No ill effects, though, just the crash message. This is really strange, since I hadn't restarted since last night, when I couldn't connect to the wireless because the authentication wouldn't work.
EDIT: 6) Some very odd behavior... I guess I was wrong about the last time the Host Process crashing not having any ill effects - Aero is half-on, half-off. pic for example - see how the windows still have the aero titlebar, but nothing else is aero? It's so weird. I don't get it at all.
I'm really not sure what's causing these problems. I checked the files that the error report refers me to, but they don't really say anything at all. These problems started after I did two things - installed Service Pack 1 over Windows Update and installed an nLite-ed version of Windows XP SP3 on another partition. I did both at the exact same time, so I don't know which one is causing the problem.
If anyone has any insight into these problems, I would be grateful. These problems aren't debilitating, just extremely annoying when I have to restart again because Aero doesn't work anymore, or my network connection doesn't work the way I want it to. There are two possible solutions I can think of - either uninstall XP and see if the problems go away, or reinstall my network drivers and software. I'd rather not do either, because XP was a pain to set up, and I had to jump through a lot of hoops to find a version of SecureW2 that worked in x64 Vista (my network has some authentication that I don't really understand too well).
Thanks for the help, and sorry for the long post.
1) upon startup, oftentimes (but not all the time), Windows will tell me "Host Process for Windows Services has stopped working" (l=pic]http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/Aflac/ScreenShot055.jpg[/l]). This is almost immediately upon startup, maybe about 30 seconds into it (my system takes about a full minute to become responsive after starting up, since I have so many programs set to run at startup). Sometimes, Aero will disappear for a little bit (bad example - see how the menu is all Windows95-ish... a few seconds before this screenshot, the start menu changed to Windows95-style as well, but then popped back). Sometimes, Aero will remain fine; once, Aero shut down and wouldn't resurrect itself (not even an option anymore in Windows Color and Appearance).
2) Sometimes, the Remote Access Manager will shut down, in a manner very similar to the Host Process shutdown (example
). Usually, this one shuts down Aero more often than the Host Process shutdown does. It happened randomly while I was looking at a Wikipedia page, not touching the computer.
3) Sometimes, one of my two network connections will not connect (the LAN connection wouldn't authenticate itself for a few days, but then fixed itself, and now the wireless connection says the authentication server will not work, which is not true).
4) Tinkering with my network connections will usually cause the Remote Access Connection Manager to crash. Usually the catalyst is enabling and disabling one of my connections, though I've gotten the crash a few times when Windows tried to diagnose and fix the network connection problem.
EDIT: 5) I just enabled my wireless connection; it connected, but then the Host Process for Windows Services crashed. No ill effects, though, just the crash message. This is really strange, since I hadn't restarted since last night, when I couldn't connect to the wireless because the authentication wouldn't work.
EDIT: 6) Some very odd behavior... I guess I was wrong about the last time the Host Process crashing not having any ill effects - Aero is half-on, half-off. pic for example - see how the windows still have the aero titlebar, but nothing else is aero? It's so weird. I don't get it at all.
I'm really not sure what's causing these problems. I checked the files that the error report refers me to, but they don't really say anything at all. These problems started after I did two things - installed Service Pack 1 over Windows Update and installed an nLite-ed version of Windows XP SP3 on another partition. I did both at the exact same time, so I don't know which one is causing the problem.
If anyone has any insight into these problems, I would be grateful. These problems aren't debilitating, just extremely annoying when I have to restart again because Aero doesn't work anymore, or my network connection doesn't work the way I want it to. There are two possible solutions I can think of - either uninstall XP and see if the problems go away, or reinstall my network drivers and software. I'd rather not do either, because XP was a pain to set up, and I had to jump through a lot of hoops to find a version of SecureW2 that worked in x64 Vista (my network has some authentication that I don't really understand too well).
Thanks for the help, and sorry for the long post.
). I guess I could load AHCI at the same time, too, if I do. But I don't know why no one else has this problem. I've spent hours Googling my error messages and nothing recent comes up.
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