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SVCHost failures

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Ever had a server that you really didn’t want to rebuild which could not run svchost.exe without half a dozen services failing?? A Neat little article over at HP shows how to spawn a problematic SVCHost services in its own process tree.  Short Answer:

1. net stop <service_name>
2. sc config <service_name> type=own
3. net start <service_name>

Now this doesn’t fix the problem but at least a single dodgy service doesn’t affect the stability of other critical services.

<Update 29-01-10> I forgot to mention that you can view what services are listining on each process using the command ‘tasklist /svc’ </Update>