COM surrogate stopped working error - no solution seems to work

I followed the procedure outlined here for the VSS error. I hope that was ok...
Event ID 12348

I think my Crucial firmware is up to date c.f. attachment.

I am on testing drives again :).

Just to let you know. I copied the pics to my C drive (SSD) and viewed them and there is the same problem. I have my operating system on C (and thus photo viewer runs from that drive).

So I am not sure how the Seagate drive can be the problem... I guess it must be a problem with the SSD or with Windows somehow? Someone suggested Windows may be faulty. It's a genuine CD purchased from Newegg but I guess that doesn't mean there can't be problems. Is there any way to find out if the Windows installation has issues that it shouldn't have beyond the Scan that I did to start with?

How old is the installation? Any chance you have a corrupted user file? Fix a corrupted user profile

You could just start by making a new user and see if the problem persists. Then if it does not, think about creating a permanent new user and moving things over through the steps in that link.

The installation is about two months old. I wouldn't know what should have happened to corrupt it (I also ran virus scans etc.)

I am also not aware that I deleted anything in any file that I shouldn't have. I only changed some of the windows features that were switched on.

I'll try the new user profile anyway.

Hi writhziden,

I am just about to make a new user profile. Then I noticed another thing. Internet was really slow for a moment and I found the attached errors. I think I kept getting the DNS error before. The name of the script (?) that timed out varies. Should I follow this: Event ID 1014 Microsoft Windows DNS Client - TechNet Articles - Home - TechNet Wiki

Might this be a hardware problem?

I also found a user profile error. Maybe that is relevant (attached) because you were suggesting the user profile had a problem.

Same with the other user account!

i just created a new account and viewed pics in there. I didn't delete the old one. I don't know if that is important.

Attached is the event viewer stuff that was associated with the new user account.
Note that the first time I logged onto the new user account I hadn't logged out of the old one and I got a message from a program "Panda vaccine" that it is still open in another account and cannot run twice. Some errors might have arisen from that. Then I logged out of the old one and logged into the new one again. In both cases the COM surrogate error occurred.

In other words you think I should reinstall windows with a different disk then the one I have? It is the last thing I would want to do because I have some software licensed through the university etc and it would be a pain getting all that back... If it is the only solution that you think would work though. So be it. I connect to a university network through a LAN cable. And i also had a look at all the other posts and tried most of the things (except disabling thumbnails and I didn't find this application that can check codecs (MMCompView). Does something similar exist for Windows 7?)

I was actually thinking you could use a new disc and do a repair install. Repair Install does not affect your programs or user files, so you shouldn't have to get licenses set up again.

You may have to Clean Install Windows 7 if the repair install does not work, but I would prefer to start with the least invasive method, first.

quick question: How do I find out if my windows DVD has SP1 installed on it? The resulting installation procedure is different. I thought I try installing with the DVD I have and see if the error persists before downloading something else. Maybe its stupid