When starting my Windows XP machine I started getting the following
message:
Windows cannot find âSSVICHOSST.exeâ Make sure you typed
the name correctly,and then try again. To search for a file, click the
Start button and then click search.
How do I remove this message when starting up?
The message is both clear, and confusing.
Clear, because Windows is clearly trying to run a program on start
up, and âWindows cannot findâ means ⊠well, it means that it canât
find the program.
Confusing, because you never told it to run that program, nor do you
have any idea how it got there.
I do.
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In your case, the name gives it away. Itâs a very poorly disguised attempt to make a filename that is easily confused with the Windows system component SVCHOST.EXE. It kinda sorta looks the same (though very poorly so, in this case), but itâs not.
And thatâs an extremely common sign of a virus.
And the fact that your system canât find it is a good sign.
Hereâs what I think happened:
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Somewhere along the line, your machine was infected with a virus. âSSVICHOSST.exeâ was a file that likely contained the virus and was placed on your machine as part of that infection. The virus added instructions so that your system would automatically run that file on start up.
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Sometime later, your anti-virus software came along, detected and removed the virus, removing the file âSSVICHOSST.exeâ from wherever it had been placed.
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Unfortunately, your anti-virus software did not remove the instructions to automatically start the virus. Hence, each time your system starts up, it tries to run âSSVICHOSST.exeâ, which of course no longer exists.
There are other scenarios (the virus itself could have been flawed, for example), but thatâs a common explanation for how you might have ended up where you are.
The short version is that the âWindows cannot findâŠâ message on start up means exactly that â Windows has been instructed to auto-run a program on startup, and cannot find it.
Fixing it manually takes just a tiny bit of work. There are a couple of approaches I would take.
First, Iâd suggest running âmsconfigâ and looking at startup entries there. Click on Start, RunâŠ, type in âmsconfigâ and press OK. Once in the âSystem Configuration Utilityâ, as it calls itself, click on the Startup tab. You should get something similar to this:
If you find âSSVICHOSSTâ (or whatever startup program is causing the âcannot findâ error), uncheck the checkbox next to it and click OK. The next time you start your system you should no longer have the error.
If you didnât find the entry in msconfig, weâll try the free download autoruns instead. After you download and run it, you should get a display much like this one:
Type CTRL+F to search, type in SSVICHOSST as the search term and press OK to see where autoruns takes you. If it finds the entry you can once again uncheck the box in front of it to disable it from happening on the next boot.
Final Caveats
If the entry comes back then itâs likely youâre still infected with the virus that put it there, or what youâre seeing isnât the result of a virus but the result of some other program that is repairing itself. You might need to see if you can determine what program it might be part of.
And as with all system modifications, itâs always a good idea to take a backup of your system first. In this case, since the startup entries weâve been modifying are all contained in the registry, it would be enough to create a System Restore Point.
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