error on startup (winxp)

[Geir]

I get this error at startup and it's not happening all the time:

http://img199.exs.cx/img199/3809/windowserror2yp.jpg

I have the antivir guard , that is all.

everythng is as updated as can be.

[Triple X]

you might have some program thats intefearing with svchost anything installed before this came up?

[NutWrench]

I'm getting that, too. It only seems to happen when I reboot just after playing a resource-hungry game.

It's logged in the Event Viewer as an application error, rather than a system error, so you'd think it would be easy to track down.

[swh]

On sysinternals.com you can find some good debug stuff.
You should use Process Explorer.

Before that one, you need to have Microsoft Debugger and Symbols installed (warning, big download, 190 MB).

SVCHOST (Service Host Process) is a so called launcher application. A general application which starts other apps. Most of the times it has got something to do with RPC (Remote Procedure Calls) or Telephony (TapiSRV).

The RPC's are options for networking which allows applications to accept connections from other PC's

The book to help you use these tools is Microsoft Windows Internals from MS Press.