23rd Feb 2007
Generic Host Process for Win32 Services
I love Windows. I love it in that way like someone who was kidnapped has a strange connection to their captor. Microsoft’s new marketing campaign for Windows is:
“The Wow Starts Now”
- as in -
“Wow, I thought this software was annoying before but now I really found a new hatred for it.”
The joy of my last few days? This error message:

It only appears when I really need to use the computer. Even then, it doesn’t completely cripple my system - it just makes things like FTP not function. So, I can still do normal browsing, salesforce.com, sugarcrm, wordpress, email, excel, word, powerpoint, etc.
Unfortunately when you close the dialog it hangs the system and you are not able to do a normal shutdown and then lots of other things stop working.
The solution? Don’t close it. Seriously. I just drag it off the side of the screen like so:
I love Windows. I love it in that way like someone who was kidnapped has a strange connection to their captor. Microsoft’s new marketing campaign for Windows is:
“The Wow Starts Now”
- as in -
“Wow, I thought this software was annoying before but now I really found a new hatred for it.”
The joy of my last few days? This error message:

It only appears when I really need to use the computer. Even then, it doesn’t completely cripple my system - it just makes things like FTP not function. So, I can still do normal browsing, salesforce.com, sugarcrm, wordpress, email, excel, word, powerpoint, etc.
Unfortunately when you close the dialog it hangs the system and you are not able to do a normal shutdown and then lots of other things stop working.
The solution? Don’t close it. Seriously. I just drag it off the side of the screen like so:
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