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    ''COM Surrogate has stoped working" ?? what's this?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Fedex1980, May 15, 2008.

  1. Fedex1980

    Fedex1980 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Guys, i left some thing dowloading last night, went to bed, woke up, the downloads were finished, but the computer was completely frozen.
    hard reset the notebook, and now every time i enter the documents folder inside my user folder i get this error message.

    Can anybody help me??
    Thanks!
     
    Fedex1980, May 15, 2008
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  2. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    Did you ask Google? There's a long list of hits, such as this.

    John
     
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  3. Fedex1980

    Fedex1980 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yeah John... after posting... i kind of panicked being my first issue with Vista. Should have googled for this first.

    I turned off DEP for Dllhost.exe and the issue is fixed.

    Hope this fix doesn't come with any side effects....
     
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    sb123 Notebook Consultant

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    I had the exact same problem, a week ago.

    I installed the latest version of my Codecs and it's been fine.

    It's caused by thumbnails of videos/pictures.... which require codecs
     
    sb123, May 15, 2008
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