Hi There,
I need to find out if anyone can help me. For the last few months I have been having an issue with some of my users. Every now and again a box comes up saying that there is a Generic Host Win32 error and the taskbar goes grey and looks almost like Windows Classic. I have tried everything possible to fix this error but it just doesn’t want to go away. I have even formatted one of the problem machines and shortly after I had the machine fully setup the issue came back. I did the same exact installation on a machine that did not have the issue, and all was well, so I doubt it could be my installation files/programs. Also I doubt it has anything to do with the type of manufacturer as it is happening on both Dell and HP laptops.
I found online someone who had said all the technical details that you can bring up on the Microsoft error block should let you know what file is causing the issue and it looks like the acgenral.dll file which is referenced from the scvhost.exe file.
One of the blogs I read said that if I replace the files from a computer where I don’t have the issue, that should sort it out, but it didn’t 🙁
I then found online a reg edit that was supposed to fix the issue, and from what I read it did work for many so I tried it. I ran the batch file and it sort of worked until I found out that I had lost connection to my network drives. Then the issue came back, so I worked at trying to restore the users network drives. The text for the bat file is:
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@ECHO off
reg add HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\netbt\parameters /v TransportBindName /t REG_SZ /d "" /f
reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\OLE /v EnableDCOM /t REG_SZ /d "N" /f
REM Following commands can be used to reset the above modified registry values to their default value
REM reg add HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\netbt\parameters /v TransportBindName /t REG_SZ /d "\Device\" /f
REM reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\OLE /v EnableDCOM /t REG_SZ /d "Y" /f
pause
>
I found that I had to edit the TransportBindName to just \Device\ and then my network connections came back, but the issue of the GenHost Win32 remained.
I have run anti-viruses, malware checkers, Combo Fix and the list goes on, only to find nothing. I have done checks on the physical hardware of the machines that are giving this error with the same outcomes as the virus checkers.
I am at a complete loss at the moment. If anyone has got the same issue and been able to resolve it please can you let me know what you did as everything I have found so far online has not helped, or helps for a day or 2 and then the GenHost error message comes back.
Also if more info is needed I can gladly provide it. It s just that I have had this issue for several months now and none of the fixes I have found seem to work.
