"Host services stopped working."

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Frustrated in Colorado

Like tons of other people, I've been getting lots of those "Host services
have stopped working. You will be notified if a solution is found" messages.
You are forced to close the box....no other option is available.

The result of this is that my internet connection slows to a crawl.

At the suggestion of somebody else in another topic, they suggested that I
post the actual error log in the forum of the program that crashed.
Apparently the problem is with "Windows Management Instrumentation"....and I
have no idea where a forum for that resides.

So I'm hoping a solution can be found here. Here is the log that gets
generated. Any ideas on how to fix? There are DOZENS of logs like this that
have been generated.

Thanks!


Product
Windows Management Instrumentation

Problem
Stopped working

Date
6/18/2008 11:28 AM

Status
Report Sent

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: svchost.exe_Winmgmt
Application Version: 6.0.6001.18000
Application Timestamp: 47918b89
Fault Module Name: StackHash_6392
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 03c40a74
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.6
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 6392
Additional Information 2: 305e894d50f51e5ac89ad4ea5523dd7d
Additional Information 3: 43d3
Additional Information 4: e6d5184fe1054039cbc9cdef91678b34

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 808224100
 
You probably have an Ethernet card that needs a better driver. To test this,
change the Speed setting in the NIC Properties to 10 mbps half duplex, to
see if that speeds up the connection. If not, and it is the WMI, you can try
to clear that with:

Delete the files in the REPOSITORY folders (..\system32\wbem)
(you will have to turn off the winmanagement service to do that)
'net stop winmgmt'
 
Thanks, Mark.

But could you please explain the "WMI" step in a little more detail? I'm
not as computer-savy as others on this board.

How do I turn off Winmanagement, do I then just delete manually, etc.

Much appreciated....
 
Yes, delete the files normally. You would get an 'in use' error until you go
to start/run, and type:
net stop winmgmt

to stop the service. After the delete, you could restart windows, or type:
net start winmgmt
 
OK.

Do I only delete the files in that one folder (\system32\wbem)? Or are
there others as well?

Thanks!
 
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