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Remove Windows Generic Host Error

Symptoms:
You are surfing the internet or are engaged any type of Internet activity when suddenly all your Network activity goes to hault. You can still see the Internet connected icon in the tray but you cannot surf, browse or do anything.
You get an error message something like “Generic Host Process for Win32 Services has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.”
Error message reporting about faulting netapi32.dll and svchost.exe.
You try to disconnect your Internet because of no activity observed but the Internet icon wont disappear.
You receive an error message something like “Your PC has recovered from a serious problem” etc.

Solution:

Follow these simple steps and your Windows will be fully cured of this menace

Close Port 445:

1. Start Registry Editor (Regedit.exe) by clicking Start menu, and then click the Run icon.
2. In the small box that Opens, type: regedit then click the OK button. The Registry Editor will now have opened.
3. Locate the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters
In the right-hand side of the window find an option called TransportBindName.
Double click that value, and then delete the default value, thus giving it a blank value.

Close Port 135:

1. Then you must now navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\OLE
2. You will see there is a String Value called: EnableDCOM
Set the value to: N (it should currently be Y)
3. Close the Registry Editor. Shutdown and Restart your computer.


 

Sharing Windows DialUp or DialUp(broadband) Connection
 

In spite of the prevalence of broadband (cable or DSL [Digital Subscriber Line]) connectivity today, the fact remains many PC users still rely on trusty ol’ dial-up connectivity to access the Internet. If you simply use the Internet to check email and browse the occasional Web site, then dial-up connectivity is a perfectly acceptable way of getting online without having to pay broadband prices.

Even if you’re still using dial-up to access the Internet, chances are you have more than one computer in your household. If that’s the case, you can set up Microsoft Windows to share that dial-up Internet connection among all your computers. Read on to learn more about using ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) to share your dial-up connection.

The Basics

ICS is a Windows feature—first appearing in Windows 98 Second Edition—that allows a single Internet connection to be shared among multiple computers. ICS does this by using a designated computer, called the host (or gateway) to perform the networking functions that are typically done by other hardware devices used in networking, such as routers. These functions include DHCP (Dynamic Host Control Protocol), NAT (Network Address Translation), DNS (Domain Name Server) proxy, and others.

To use ICS, you set up a PC as the host and install and configure ICS on that PC. The only caveat here is that this host PC must run Win98SE or later; the other PCs in your network, however, can run any version of Windows and work well with ICS.

It’s important to keep one fact in mind before you proceed: When multiple PCs access the same dial-up connection, those systems will experience slower connectivity because ICS shares the available bandwidth among all computers. If this is a problem, it may just be the impetus you need to graduate to a broadband connection. Now, let’s take a look at how to set up ICS to share a dial-up connection.

Prepare To Share

Before you begin, it’s a good idea to know how your network will be configured and how your client and host PCs will connect to each other. A switch or hub is an easy way to connect all of your client PCs to your host PC, which is in turn connected to the Internet (in this case, via a dial-up connection).

To connect to your network, your host and client PCs will all need NICs (network interface cards). Even though the host connects to the Internet via a dial-up connection, it will still need a NIC to connect to the hardware switch or hub that is in turn connected to all the other computers in your network.

Once you have everything hooked up, it’s a good idea to check the network settings for each of the PCs. (NOTE: these instructions are for PCs running Windows XP.)

To check your network settings, click Start, Control Panel, and then Network And Internet Connections. Then, click the Network Connections icon at the bottom of the Network And Internet


When configuring your dial-up connection for ICS, be sure to choose the Allow Other Network Users To Connect Through This Computer’s Internet Connection option.


When configuring your dial-up connection for ICS, be sure to choose the Allow Other Network Users To Connect Through This Computer’s Internet Connection option.


When checking your host PC’s connection, you will see, at least, a Dial-Up icon and a Local Area Connection icon in the Network Connections window. The dial-up connection connects to the Internet and the LAN (local-area network) connects your host PC to the other PCs in your network. Check the properties of your LAN connection on each PC by right-clicking the Local Area Connection icon in the Network Connections window and clicking Properties.

In the General tab of the Local Area Connection Properties window, you should see your NIC listed in the Connect Using text box. Also, in the This Connection Uses The Following Items list box, you should see a number of clients and protocols listed.

For a working LAN connection, you should see Client For Microsoft Networks, File And Printer Sharing For Microsoft Networks, and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) listed here. If any of those items are missing, click the Install button and follow the instructions to install them. You may need your Windows installation CD to do this.

Once you verify all of your network connections in your host and client computers, it’s time to set up your host PC for ICS.

Set Up The Host

Here’s a not-so-obvious step you should take before you set up ICS on the host PC: Verify that all of the settings, such as the phone numbers and dialing rules, are correctly set up on your host PC’s dial-up connection.

To begin setting up the host to share a dial-up connection, click Start, Control Panel, and Network And Internet Connections. If you’re using WinXP’s Category View, click Network And Internet Connections; if you are in Classic View, double-click Network Connections.

Clicking Network And Internet Connections in Category View opens the Network And Internet Connections window. In this window, click the Network Connections icon at the bottom to open the Network Connections window. If you are in Classic View, double-clicking the Network Connections icon in the previous steps opens the Network Connections window.

In the Network Connections window, you should see an icon for your dial-up connection. To set up ICS on this connection, right-click the icon and click Properties. Doing this opens the Properties window for your dial-up connection.

In the General tab of this window, you should see your modem listed in the Connect Using textbox and the phone number for your ISP (Internet service provider) in the Phone Number option group. Click the Advanced tab. Here you’ll see an option group for Internet Connection Sharing.

First, click the Allow Other Network Users To Connect Through This Computer’s Internet Connection checkbox. If you have more than one LAN connection, you will see these listed in the Home Networking Connection drop-down box. Select the LAN icon you use to connect the host to the client computers in your network.

Next, click the Establish A Dial-Up Connection Whenever A Computer On My Network Attempts To Access The Internet checkbox. This launches the dial-up connection in your host PC when one of the clients attempts to access the Internet. If you don’t select this option, you’ll have to establish the dial-up connection manually when one of your PCs attempts to connect.

Finally, click the Allow Other Network Users To Control Or Disable The Shared Internet Connection checkbox. This will let a user on a client PC disconnect the dial-up connection whenever they finish using the Internet. Click OK to accept your changes and then follow any subsequent instructions.

Set Up Your Clients

Now that ICS is set up on your host computer, it’s time to set up the client computers. To do so, use the Network Setup Wizard. If your client computers run WinXP, launch the Network Setup Wizard by clicking Start, All Programs, Accessories, Communications, and Network Setup Wizard.

If your client PC runs Windows 98, Win98SE, or Windows ME, you can run the Network Setup Wizard by either using the WinXP installation CD or using a network setup disk created during a previous ICS setup session. If you’re using the WinXP CD, insert the CD in the client PC’s CD drive. When the WinXP setup screen appears, click the Perform Additional Tasks option and then click Set Up A Home Or Small Office Network when prompted. If you’re using a floppy diskette that has the Network Setup Wizard, insert the disk into your drive, then click Start, Run, and type A:\Netsetup in the textbox to launch the wizard.

Click Next at the wizard's welcome screen to start, and click Next again to advance past the Before You Continue screen. In the Select A Connection Method screen, click the This Computer Connects To The Internet Through A Residential Gateway Or Through Another Computer On My Network radio button.

Next, select the connection you use to connect to the host by clicking the appropriate checkbox in the Connections list box and click Next. In the following screen, the wizard asks you to give the client computer a name; enter a unique name in the Computer Name textbox and a description (this step is optional) in the Computer Description textbox. Click Next when finished.

In the next screen, the wizard asks you to name the network with a workgroup name. Click Next to advance. In the next screen, the wizard lists the settings you chose. Click Next to advance.

When the wizard’s done, it’ll ask if you want to create a Network Setup Disk or if you want to use the WinXP CD-ROM to set up ICS on other clients. If you don’t want to do either, click the Just Finish The Wizard radio button. The final screen says you have successfully set up the client for networking, so click the Finish button to complete the process. You’re done!

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