How To Fix Ccsvchst.exe Errors

Exe Errors, Windows Application Errors

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What is a Ccsvchst.exe Error and why you need to know?

Many of you are a big time fan of Norton products (or were in my case)! Let’s admit we used to like it or still like and use their Antivirus program. Well what’s this has to do with the Ccsvhst.exe error? I’m glad that you asked? Ccsvhst.exe is a part of Norton softwares, such as internet security suit or antivirus program. Throughout this article I may interchanging the user of Norton internet security or Norton antivirus, as the error fixes apply to both of them.  Also this exe is not a virus or Trojan as most of you may fear.  But what gets complained about is that this file eats up a lot of CPU making the PC freeze or respond slow. This is the issue here, and if you have any of the Norton products, there is a good chance that you might have experienced this. But other than that, this is a complete legitimate file that is owned by Symantec Corporation.

What the file size?

Well, since it’s located at the C:\Program Files\Common Files, it’s expected to occupy at least 108, 648 bytes of hard disk space. But Ccsvschst.exe occupies at the average of 115,152 bytes, which is apparently more than the expected size. Interesting, but studies are yet to show that is this something to really care about.

The problem, the annoying part!

The most common issue that you might see is the CPU being maxed out, throwing application errors and system freezes, which is something people are getting use to and oh well trying to get rid off. Let’s now talk about the error that occurs during shutdown and startup.

During shutdown:

The file throws this error during the shutdown – “The instruction at "0x059a2df" referenced memory at 0x059a2df" the memory could not be written. Click OK to terminate the Program.” This does bothers. It slows the shutdown time, or even interferes when you have programs to auto shutdown PC. Yeah, I use a tool to auto shutdown my PC after 90 minutes immediately I decide to call it a day! This error use to come in the way of that smooth shutdown process.

During the startup:

Other than that, it also slows the start up time, which is yet another annoying thing. It takes forever to see all the desktop icons or the desktop to respond when you click F5 to refresh the screen. You might probably end up opening the process manager to kill the process, but this file is vital and cannot be terminated. Which leaves you use to only available option, that is hard reboot, phew hit the power button or remove the laptop battery after disconnecting the power cord. Lots of hassles!

The solution, the easiest and fun part!

There are many ways you can resolve this error, those are listed as below:

1. Running a Norton Update:There are good chances that the bugs in Ccsvchst.exe are fixed in the latest Norton internet security or antivirus update. So run it and install the latest update, which may help fix this problem. If this did not work, try other methods.
2. Uninstall and reinstall Norton:Go to Norton’s website, Symantec.com, search for Norton Removal Tool. Choose the tool for your version of Norton. Download it, and then run it. This will uninstall Norton completely. After uninstalling, make sure to clean invalid registry entries from your registry using a tool like RegGenie. Then restart your PC. After reboot, download and install the latest Norton product that you have paid for. Be sure that the new version is free from virus or malwares. Sometimes a scratch and write (uninstall and reinstall) might work out.
3. Disable Norton’s Floppy drive scan:This is a quick fix. Norton by default tries to scan floppy drive on shutdown, when there are no floppy drive this throw up an error. To fix this follow the methods below:Start Norton Antivirus, go to settings > Auto protect > configure > General settings > Real time protection > uncheck scan floppy drive in A:  for boot viruses when shutting down. Click OK and then restart your PC.
4. Setting the personal firewall:Start Norton internet security > Norton internet security > settings > web browsing > personal firewall > configure > internet security and firewall options > General settings. Now you are here make sure that automatically decide what to do (recommended) is checked.On your left pane select Program control under personal firewall, while you are here make sure that Access settings for Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Generic Host process for Win32 services is set to Allow.
5. Remove Norton and go for another one:When all the above methods did not help, and you think that Norton is consuming too many CPU, and gives more error, remove it and opt for another program. There are many alternative antivirus/internet security programs to consider. After removing Norton make sure to run a good registry optimizer, to clean your windows registry for invalid entries.