Svchost Exe File Deleted On Your PC? Fix It With SvcHostFix

Some Antivirus software are very paranoid, they trigger false positives even for some system files. While some of them warn you before they erase such files, some (McAfee?) delete them straight away without giving you any prior notice, leading to your computer crashing.

Have you lost svchost.exe file on your PC due to such a false alarm, or due to a virus attach? Well, here is a small program that will fix this issue, by restoring Svchost.exe on your PC. This free portable tool checks if your svchost file is 0 bytes or does not exist. In either case, it copies the file to the correct directory.

How To Fix Svchost Removal Crashing Your PC

Since your PC crashes after it no longer finds svchost.exe, you need to boot your PC into safe mode. Save the svchostfix exe file on a USB drive, and run the program in safe mode to restore svchost.exe file.

In case your svchost.exe does not need any fix, you will see a message saying that svchost.exe exists. The tool also shows up the location of svchost.exe file, along with it’s file size in bytes.

Download SvcHostFix

Requires .NET Framework 2.0 or higher.

Note: Works only with Windows XP SP3 32 bit systems.