com surrogate

I am working on a computer that has com surrogate multiplying and eating up huge amounts of ram, but only when there are desktop icons. I remove all desktop icons (move everything to a different folder) and have no problem. I don't have the problem with a Diagnostic boot but do with no startup...

Which is better for the computer to get some life back into it. Should I reinstall windows 7 and start over and add the programs that I want or is it safe to uninstall the programs that I no longer use. Its been a while since I have had a fresh windows. The reason for this is that the PC has...

SYSTEM: Core-i5 3470 - 8Gb Crucial 1333Mhz - XFX Pro Core PSU - Gigabyte H77 board - Samsung 840 SSD Hi Ive recently been having problems on my PC which started when I ran a program called DSL Stats alongside Avast Internet Security that had replaced Norton Internet Security (uninstalled, then...

Hey Having the com surrogate error come up when i run 2 clients when playing eve online. The error comes up at random times, could be 10 minutes or 3 hours. The game runs fine when only running 1 client. Have tried reinstalling windows and the game client, codecs, drivers are up to date. Any...

Unlike everybody else here, I have a different problem with COM Surrogate. I noticed something wasn't right when I got random freeze-ups playing audiosurf which is sensitive to CPU usage. I opened task manager and saw about every 15 seconds, there is a spike in the CPU usage. I checked the...

I have installed Windows 7 Ulimate 64 bit three times, and its the same thing all the time. I try to open a picture to preview it, it says COM Surrogate has stopped responding. Also I have tried installing programs like google crome which works the first time i opened it, but now it just says it...

Before you jump on me, I searched through the other "COM Surrogate Stopped" threads and searched on the Windows tech support sites. I tried most of the solutions (some didn't seem at all applicable and I generally avoid reg edit) and none worked. I installed a pristine version of Windows 7...

i was watching photos from its default image viewer, with some music playing in windows media player, and then i tried to close the image viewer, it cant be closed and display "Not Responding" for image viewer and display "COM surrogate problem".Plus in the same moment i cant shutdown my...

Good night to all, I recently began experiencing the "COM Surrogate" error while opening up pretty much all pictures with Microsoft "Windows Photo Viewer" I'm attaching a screenshot. I found millions of suggestions online (codecs, Adobe CS3, CS4) but none seem to be working (and most wont...

I newly installed Windows 7 on my pc and after a couple of installations it suddenly appeared saying " COM Surrogate has stopped working". Every time I click "close" it reappers immediately. I don't know why and what software caused it. Please, help me...

Finally got around to installing my printer today. No hiccups on installation. I can scan pictures from the included software and do other things. I CANNOT print. Even without using the printer software, and just, let's say, right clicking on a document and clicking on print, same problem...

Can't really say how or why it happened. I have a clean install of 7 build 7000 (or higher if the windows update, updates it). I went to my start menu, clicked on control panel, the window opened up with no icons, briefly. After closing, I tried it again to no avail. I then customized my start...

Shortly after installing Windows 7, my control panel began returning an error upon trying to open it. Now, every time I try to access the control Panel, I get this: "Runtime Error! Program: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\DllHost.exe" I press ok and get "COM Surrogate has stopped working" and it sits...

Hi, this is my first time posting here. I'm writing this from my windows XP computer, i'll explain the reason why... I've upgraded my main PC (which was Vista) to windows 7, and everything seemed to be working fine. However, Windows Live messenger, IE, Firefox, Opera 9 and Google Chrome will...

Introduction I've been struggling with the COM Surrogate dllhost.exe error messages for a while now. These errors always appeared in a window that had thumbnails (NOT video thumbnails, just the thumbnail view, with icons, e.g., Control Panel). Investigation and Findings I think I have it all...

Everytime I try and open the control panel in Windows 7 I get a message that says that "COM Surrogate has Stopped Working". I looked at forums online and the same problem had happened in vista and they had a fix. When I downloaded and installed the fix it did not solve the problem. The problem...