BleepingComputer.com: svchost error can't resolve

keep getting this error on booting windows, have gone through all my services to find the culprit but not able to isolate the cause, I suspect its something in my registry but I am not sure. I boot in normal (that is i don't use config.sys to boot), have run malwarebytes scans, also avg8.5 and superantispyware also since I just had system cleaned I don't 'think' its another virus..unless its part of something left over? I'm just not sure...I'm really trying to avoid 'just re-install windows'.

WinXP SP3, on a HP pavilion dv9000

error msg:

svchost.exe - application
0x7c91b21a referenced memory at 0x00000010 memory could not be written

no other issues occur after the error, I close the msg box and everything else seems fine

thanks for any advice in advance

http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_fix_the_instru...ot_be_read.html

Worth reading, without necessarily believing all comments, http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en...76-912febee58fd

Personally, I would check Event Viewer and hope that I can find more clues to whatever is wrong. I don't like guessing randomly.

How To Use Event Viewer - http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic40108.html

Louis

From your second link:

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Bolded service was casuing the problem, disabling has removed the error, this makes sense as I upgraded to SP3 and they snuck that media player 11 in to when I was updating my Windows lol.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

Always glad when users have good results, thanks for posting back...happy computing .

Louis