I didn't read the whole thread, so I don't know if this was suggested by others:
Svchost problems

>This is happening with every program when I close it. Doesn't matter if it's IE or not. I've increased VM to no avail. If anyone has any advice other than rebuilding the laptop, I would like to hear it. If it persists, I will probably go to a backup and see if that helps. Anyone have any opinion what would happen if I just restored the WINDOWS directory/subdirectories? I will archive data, etc, but would like to minimize the restore and try to only update where the problem may be. What would happen to any programs that I have installed since that restore?
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>>Getting an error each time I close IE7:
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>>iexplore.exe - Application Error (this is the error window caption)
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>>The instruction at "0x0261f2c0" referenced memory at "0x00000ba0". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate the program.
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>>This seemed to happen right after I decided to do some cleaning of my "documents and settings" folder, but I'm not positive it's related.
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>>Been looking, but can't find much. And don't just tell me to use Firefox... (Sergey and Hilmar) <g>
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>>UPDATE: Dammit, why can't I use "" marks in the title?! Can someone add "read" to the end of the title please?