generic host process crashes, killing shares and mixer devices? Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 7:41 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Brett (7 messages posted) Hi all.. bit of an odd one.. This started months and months ago, but Ive just sort of ignored it.. until today when the other computer in the house died (hardware), so now its become irritating.. XP home SP3, all updates installed etc.. Some time after a reboot (60 mins, 6 hours.. but never lasts a day) I'll get a Windows error box up telling me that Generic Host Process has crashed.. Once that happens, if I try and open the Windows volume control I get "no active mixer devices available" .. and then the other day I discovered that when this happens it also takes out my ability to surf to other machines on my network (ie: \\mymachine in the run box tells me it can't find those machines, and ditto if I try and come into this crashing one from another machine..) Im just about to use Spybot's Startup utility to disable a bunch of stuff.. but while Im waiting to see if it dies again.. anyone have any ideas? thanks, Brett Responses to this message: re: generic host process crashes, killing shares and mixer devices? (MartinM: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 9:30 pm) re: generic host process crashes, killing shares and mixer devices? (triplate: Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 5:37 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] generic host process crashes, killing shares and mixer devices? (Brett: Sat, Nov 14, 2009, 7:41 pm) re: generic host process crashes, killing shares and mixer devices? (MartinM: Sat, Nov 14, 2009, 9:30 pm) re: generic host process crashes, killing shares and mixer devices? (Brett: Sat, Nov 14, 2009, 9:53 pm) re: generic host process crashes, killing shares and mixer devices? (MartinM: Sat, Nov 14, 2009, 10:53 pm) re: generic host process crashes, killing shares and mixer devices? (C K: Sun, Nov 15, 2009, 3:41 pm) re: generic host process crashes, killing shares and mixer devices? (triplate: Sun, Nov 15, 2009, 5:37 pm) re: generic host process crashes, killing shares and mixer devices? (Brett: Sun, Nov 29, 2009, 5:20 pm) re: generic host process crashes, killing shares and mixer devices? (triplate: Sun, Nov 29, 2009, 5:24 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