Recently I've had repeated error messages about certain windows processes crashing e.g. "windows update has stopped working"
It seems to affect windows update, windows explorer (i can view folders/files but if view add/remove programs it crashes) and windows installer.
Every time they're run they stop working almost instantaneously. I suspect it's because of a conflict with something i've installed but i can't figure out what, and even if I could I wouldn't be able to uninstall said program because windows installer won't work!
I've tried booting in safe mode with no programs running and the errors still occur.
I'm running Vista HP with spec in sig. Vista is installed to a 50GB partition C: and files/programs are installed to a separate partition D: (~686GB), with the left over space given to partitions for ubuntu. I know I could probably re-install to fix this but I really want to avoid that if at all possible!
Here's what's shown in the event viewer for one of the program crashes:
Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-EventSystem
Date: 16/04/2009 20:08:09
Event ID: 4609
Task Category: Event System
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
Description:
The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was 8007043c from line 45 of d:\vistasp1_gdr\com\complus\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error.
Any ideas on what to do would be much appreciated!
It seems to affect windows update, windows explorer (i can view folders/files but if view add/remove programs it crashes) and windows installer.
Every time they're run they stop working almost instantaneously. I suspect it's because of a conflict with something i've installed but i can't figure out what, and even if I could I wouldn't be able to uninstall said program because windows installer won't work!
I've tried booting in safe mode with no programs running and the errors still occur.
I'm running Vista HP with spec in sig. Vista is installed to a 50GB partition C: and files/programs are installed to a separate partition D: (~686GB), with the left over space given to partitions for ubuntu. I know I could probably re-install to fix this but I really want to avoid that if at all possible!
Here's what's shown in the event viewer for one of the program crashes:
Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-EventSystem
Date: 16/04/2009 20:08:09
Event ID: 4609
Task Category: Event System
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer:
Description:
The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was 8007043c from line 45 of d:\vistasp1_gdr\com\complus\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error.
Any ideas on what to do would be much appreciated!
