Sychost.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close

AVG Protection
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Hello William. For your information "svchost.exe" is a process on your computer that hosts, or contains, other individual services that Windows uses to perform various functions. For example, Windows Defender uses a service that is hosted by a svchost.exe process. There can be multiple instances of svchost.exe running on your computer, with each instance containing different services. One instance of svchost.exe might host a single service for a program, and another instance might host several services related to Windows. You can use Task Manager to view which services are running under each instance of svchost.exe.

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Avinash,
Thank you it looks like it was an update from Microsoft for Windows 7 that was not compatible with XP.  I have made some adjustments to the Browser and it looks like it has sloved it.

Thank you for your help

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This comes up now and then and is followed by a box that read "svhost.exe unknown software exception 0x0eedfade occured in the application at location 0x7c812fd3"

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I keep getting a warning "sychost.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close" does this mean my computer is infected

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This comes up now and then and is followed by a box that read "svhost.exe unknown software exception 0x0eedfade occured in the application at location 0x7c812fd3"

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Hello William. For your information "svchost.exe" is a process on your computer that hosts, or contains, other individual services that Windows uses to perform various functions. For example, Windows Defender uses a service that is hosted by a svchost.exe process. There can be multiple instances of svchost.exe running on your computer, with each instance containing different services. One instance of svchost.exe might host a single service for a program, and another instance might host several services related to Windows. You can use Task Manager to view which services are running under each instance of svchost.exe.

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Hello William. Its great to hear that your issue has been resolved. Please feel free to contact us back for any further assistance.

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Hello William. It would be under the C:\Windows\System32 folder in your XP PC too. Please check it.

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Avinash,
Thank you it looks like it was an update from Microsoft for Windows 7 that was not compatible with XP.  I have made some adjustments to the Browser and it looks like it has sloved it.

Thank you for your help