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General Category => Tech Clinic => Topic started by: jeyasudhahar on April 30, 2007, 08:55:01 AM

Title: Help svchost.exe problem
Post by: jeyasudhahar on April 30, 2007, 08:55:01 AM

Dear friends,
                   I am having a very irritating problem at the startup.I have the following message.[font=\"Arial Black\"]"Windows cannot find c\windows\svchost.exe. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, check the start button"[/font].Please help me.

Title: Help svchost.exe problem
Post by: guestolo on April 30, 2007, 07:19:24 PM

Hi jeyasudhahar

Let's get a closer look please to be able to help you out
Download Hijackthis 1.99.1 from my signature below
SAVE it to your desktop

Double click on hijackthis_sfx.exe on desktop
Click the UNZIP button>>OK the prompt
This will self extract to C:\Program Files\HijackThis
Delete hijackthis_sfx.exe from desktop

Go to START>>RUN
Copy>>paste the following to the open field, then hit OK
%systemdrive%\Program Files\HijackThis
This will open the Hijackthis folder
RIGHT CLICK on Hijackthis.exe and select SEND TO>>Desktop (create shortcut)
You can now run Hijackthis.exe from the new shortcut placed on your desktop

Do a "SCAN and Save a Log file"
A log will open in Notepad
Copy and paste the WHOLE contents of the log  here

Title: Help svchost.exe problem
Post by: guestolo on June 09, 2007, 04:38:53 PM

As the original poster has not returned, I'll lock this topic