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[SOLVED] Diagnostic System Host service keeps terminating

Hi xilolee...and thanks for continuing to try to help me. I guess you could say that I am the "administrator" of my computer, as I am the owner and only my wife, the young man who works for us, and I use it. I do need to ask a couple of things before I try your fix:
1. I can probably manage to do #1, but I have NO idea how to do #2 or even what it means. Sorry I am so thick.
2. I don't have the CD (or a USB) to my Windows program. This is Brazil.

Question: How big is the danger if I try it without the CD?
 
1) You can download and try aomei backupper free (I'm using the pro, got it from bitsdujour.com as giveaway, and it saved my but..ehm, machine a few of days ago).
What it does? It allows you to create a copy of your system configuration/partitions in one big file (mine are about 11-15GB), and you'll put that (those) file(s) in a safer place (another healthy hard disk, usually).
You can choose only the important partitions and exclude data partitions, or you can include all partitions (but the file will be bigger).
In case something bad happens, you'll be able to use the most recent system image to restore your partitions in few dozens of minutes (or minutes, if you have a faster pc than mine...).
To do it, you'll need to create a cd/usb drive with the software in it (it should be created just after you installed the software, so you'll test if it works and, if yes, you'll know you can use it in case of problems), to start windows directly with it.
2) You can use the search function in control panel: type create recovery in it, or only create and control panel will show you that you can create a recovery cd directly from your machine (There are many tutorials on the web, if you need one).
You can also create/download your windows 7 installation disk from Download Windows 7 Disc Images (ISO Files) (click) (I think it works only with retailer licenses, and not with OEM licenses, but I'm not totally sure).
After you have downloaded it, it should be mastered/burned on a cd/dvd (I can't remember/know its exact size), and test if it works.

Question: How big is the danger if I try it without the CD?
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I believe it's a very simple task and that there are no risks, but who knows...
 
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:dance:WOO HOO!!!! PROBLEM SOLVED!!! :dance:

I would like to thank all the nice folks at sysnative who responded to my problem and your warm welcome to the forum.
 
Kelly Adkins said:
I guess you could say that I am the "administrator" of my computer, as I am the owner and only my wife, the young man who works for us, and I use it.
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A (windows) administrator user account is a windows user with enough powers to say windows what to do (and it will do it), i.e. it's an user recognized as a boss by windows.
A (windows) standard user account has less powers than the administrator.
A (windows) guest user account has less powers than the standard user.
(There are other types of user accounts, but for now learn these three)

When you are logged with an administrator account, you can do almost anything on your pc...
The problem arises if you give access to malware: it can do anything too!
That's why you could read on MS website (and not only there) you/we should log into windows as standard users (it should be an exception to log in as an administrator, usually for more complicated things).

Starting with windows vista, MS invented the "user account control", a system to get notifications about what happens on our machines (i.e., it usually pops up when some programs "want to be installed" or "want to be started").
Hence when you want to open the command prompt, there are two types of it: the simple and limited command prompt and the simple but very powerful command prompt (i.e., the command prompt started as an administrator user, also known as the elevated command prompt).
With the elevated command prompt you can run potentially dangerous scripts or commands, or useful commands (it depends by what you write in it).

I hope this clarifies a bit the things for you. :wink11a:
 
Maybe I understood what you mean.
When I wrote "but wait for administrators' or moderators' approval before you try them.", I intended sysnative administrators and sysnative moderators.
 
Then you can mark the thread/topic as solved (there should be the option, probably in any posts... Click the button on the most useful post, the one that solved the problem).
 
Hi xilolee....and thanks again for all your help. I just received notice of your latest post on my thread here through my email. For some reason the last two or three notices showing up in my email have not showed up here. Such is the way things go in my experience with tech things/sites/programs/problems, etc....lol. I am putting this reply (at least on my screen) under the post that helped solve the problem, which was executing the Windows Repair Tool. To be completely honest, Ms. Reid helped me with it too, by expanding the instructions just a bit and making it a bit more idiot proof for me. I could not find any icon/button to indicate which post helped the most, but it was the Windows Repair Tool that did the trick!

Just to follow up....the instant I posted this, the text of the notice I just received from you in my email showed up right above it. It was not there before. Go figure...lol:huh:
 
You did indeed!! As far as where the icons/buttons are....well....in keeping with my "complete dud" reputation in things like this, I found a "problem solved" choice in a drop down list, but I still never saw anything that would let me select the post with the instructions that solved the problem.
 

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