re: Thanks for helping Thursday, September 25, 2003 at 4:09 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Daniel (1 messages posted) I just stumbled upon this thread about 10 minutes ago trying to find a fix to a problem I was having.. Task Manager wouldn't stay open for more than a second, regedit wouldn't open, and Spybot S&D wouldn't either. I kept opening Task Manager to try and see if there was anything there that I didn't recognize. Since it stayed open for only a split second it was hard, but I noticed 'Svchosts.exe' . Now normally that program is 'svchost.exe' without the s isn't it? I noticed that both versions were there, so the 'svchosts.exe' looked awful fishy. I used my godlike clicking powers to open task manager and amazingly end the svchosts.exe before task manager closed. It took me about 20 tries but finally I was able to do it fast enough.. and what do you know? Task Manager stayed open. Reg edit opened also. (; I went to my system32 folder and viewed icons by date and guess what? The svchosts.exe file was one of the three newest there... so I deleted it. I used Spybot to delete that command from my startup as well. Hope this helps. If it does then please let me know at AuraPainter@hotmail.com I'm a layman, I want to know if I have been of any use. Written in response to: Thanks for helping (Firee: Thursday, September 4, 2003 at 2:26 pm) Responses to this message: re: Thanks for helping (Tim: Monday, October 6, 2003 at 1:27 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Task Manager Disappears!! (TRS: Sun, Jun 16, 2002, 2:40 am) re: Task Manager Disappears!! (Allen: Sun, Jun 16, 2002, 4:46 am) re: Task Manager Disappears!! (Pulse: Sun, Aug 10, 2003, 9:38 pm) re: Task Manager Disappears!! (michael downing: Sun, Apr 20, 2003, 12:13 am) re: Task Manager Disappears!! (DJK: Mon, May 19, 2003, 6:00 pm) re: Task Manager Disappears!! (nkraman: Fri, Jul 25, 2003, 12:23 am) re: Task Manager Disappears!! (Mark: Mon, Jul 28, 2003, 10:53 pm) re: Task Manager Disappears!! (Rolland: Tue, Aug 5, 2003, 10:38 pm) BYPASS Solution (DDN: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 8:32 pm) re: BYPASS Solution (Wes Ferguson: Wed, Aug 13, 2003, 3:49 pm) re: BYPASS Solution (DDN: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 7:48 am) re: BYPASS Solution (Mike Archibald: Fri, Dec 26, 2003, 3:44 pm) re: BYPASS Solution (sultan ali: Thu, Apr 8, 2004, 5:29 am) re: BYPASS Solution (moe: Tue, Apr 13, 2004, 9:01 am) re: BYPASS Solution (Mark Jackson: Sun, Nov 28, 2004, 11:49 am) re: BYPASS Solution (RJV: Tue, Apr 11, 2006, 7:57 pm) re: Task Manager Disappears!! (Montibank: Fri, Aug 15, 2003, 12:40 am) re: The Fix. (iamcanadian2222: Fri, Aug 15, 2003, 1:07 pm) Thanks for helping (Firee: Thu, Sep 4, 2003, 2:26 pm) re: Thanks for helping (Daniel: Thu, Sep 25, 2003, 4:09 am) re: Thanks for helping (Tim: Mon, Oct 6, 2003, 1:27 am) Changed taskmgr (AlienTech: Wed, Oct 15, 2003, 12:33 am) re: Changed taskmgr (finale: Thu, Feb 19, 2004, 3:36 pm) re: Changed taskmgr (AlienTech: Wed, Feb 23, 2005, 2:51 am) re: The Fix. (Mike Bird: Mon, May 16, 2005, 8:34 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum