How to keep Windows XP stable - HELP!
Error Message - Abnormal Termination!
Thursday, July 20, 2006 by beto666 | Discussion: Windows XP
Following the link https://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?SID=1&AID=505&c=1#962810 teaching/suggesting ways to make XP stable over time, I accessed the Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services area and disabled/stopped some of the processes considered "useles", according to the author. I didn't disable all of them, but only those which I think ARE useless for my machine. Problem is I had just re-formated my desktop and installed the programs, and everything was OK. But afetr doing the same fine-tunning process to my laptop PC, and re-booting, I started receiving the error message:
http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/5629/error1df5.jpg
I have WB5 running with Arrow skin. I unloaded it, returned to XP style, but still got the message:
http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/8377/error2wb1.jpg
I have only a widget running. Could this be the problem? Don't think so! I re-checked every process I had disab;ed in Services looking for the path described in the error message but couldn't find C:\WINDOWS\System32\bcwltry.exe
Any clues of what that might be? Anyone know which service is attached to this and that I'm supposed to re-start in order for the message to go away?
Here is a list of the services which I stopped/disabled completely:
Alerter
ClipBook
COM+ Event System
COM+ System Application
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Error Reporting Service
Help and Support
Human Interface Device Access
Indexing Service
Messenger [sic]
NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing
Network DDE
Network DDE DSDM
Performance Logs and Alerts
Routing and Remote Access
Secondary Logon
Security Accounts Manager
Terminal Service
Uninterruptable Power Supple (UPS)
WMI Performance Adapter
Bear in mind that we have three possible atartup types for each one of them:
Automatic
Manual
Disabled
And can anybody tell me what the "SVCHOST.EXE" process is all about? It uses almost 2,000 handles and it has many "arms". 
HELP SOMEBODY! I don't wanna lose the good configuration I had made.
Thanx guys!
HELP SOMEBODY! I don't wanna lose the good configuration I had made.
Thanx guys!
beto666
Reply #2 Thursday, July 20, 2006 3:11 PM
Reply #2 Thursday, July 20, 2006 3:11 PM
Way to go Ooberman. Looking here and there I was able to find the problem. Restored to a previous point and found out I couldn't have disabled "COM+ Event System" and
"COM+ System Application", these are needed by Broadcom Wireless. The rest is OK by now. Wish I could disable a few more useless services running, but I'm still testing and am not sure which. About the svchost.exe, can you tell me what it is and what it does in the background? Thanx a million!
"COM+ System Application", these are needed by Broadcom Wireless. The rest is OK by now. Wish I could disable a few more useless services running, but I'm still testing and am not sure which. About the svchost.exe, can you tell me what it is and what it does in the background? Thanx a million!
beto666
Reply #4 Thursday, July 20, 2006 10:35 PM
Reply #4 Thursday, July 20, 2006 10:35 PM
Sorrry Island! Hastiness is my worst enemy. I tried to go back but it was too late.
Ooberman
Reply #5 Saturday, July 22, 2006 3:25 PM
Reply #5 Saturday, July 22, 2006 3:25 PM
svchost is the host process for services (service host!). You'll notice that 99% of services that are shown as running in admin tools don't show up in task manager - they are instead running as part of svchost.exe. When you strip your services down you'll find that svchost consumes less and less memory. Svchost is obviously a legitimate app and is nothing to worry about.
Good luck!
Good luck!
beto666
Reply #6 Saturday, July 22, 2006 5:51 PM
Reply #6 Saturday, July 22, 2006 5:51 PM
Thanx Ooberman. I am indeed trimming things bit by bit over here. Hope I get this box to work smoothly.
munkey106
Reply #7 Monday, August 7, 2006 3:07 AM
Reply #7 Monday, August 7, 2006 3:07 AM
www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php <----that might help a little bit with your startup
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Reply #1 Thursday, July 20, 2006 2:11 PM