Hello all,
I'm another person who's been having problems with this svchost.exe FP.
On Wednesday, I got the false positive about the svchost.exe but I was half asleep and I removed it(not to the chest...deleted it).
Note: I'm on service pack 3
The current problems that doing this resulted in:
- No display of windows in taskbar
- Shortcuts in taskbar dissapeared
- Not able to cut/paste(I can, but it's a bit of a fiddle.)
I've tried copying the svchost.exe file from my other computer into the system32 folder and another svchost.exe file into the windows folder.
I've tried doing a recovery but trying to do the "cd \windows\system32" proves pointless as I keep getting the "access is denied" message.
When i try and do a repair install of windows XP it's not in the list, it wants me to write over either my 500GB HDD or my 160GB HDD(both of which is full - minus 7GB in my 160GB HDD). I don't want to lose any of the data I have stored in my computer.
I've spent the last two days trying to get a patch or something but I can't find one. I've come across a knowledge base thread that tells me about the russian and french versions of XP, however they are from 2008 or something.
If ANYONE could shed some light into what I could do, I'd be forever in your debt, I miss gaming and watching movies!
Thanks in advance guys,
Connor