Windows 10: Countless Application Error caused by SkypeHost.exe: Build 10558

Is anyone else getting this?

My Event Viewer is filled with error reports about this, even uninstalled Skype itself thinking it was that but it wasn't *Sad

It's generating a new error report ever 1-2 seconds *Sad





:)

 

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WIN 10 PRO VERS 10240 & 10558

10240 is the original RTM, and 10558 has more than a few
changes/improvements made to it..

 

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WIN 10 PRO VERS 10240 & 10558

It almost certainly was officially Microsoft, but the latest build is 10565, so it is probably best to forget about 10558..

 

I just rebooted and at first all seemed good but then after about 60 seconds once it had completed "The Software Protection service" stuff it starts up again. Every few seconds an error message the same.

So I go to the folder: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps (need to "take ownership" to be allowed in) then delete the three folders:





And immediately the error reports stop (as you'd expect), just one single new error now in event viewer "Activation of app Microsoft.Messaging_8wekyb3d8bbwe!ppleae38af2e007f4358a809ac99a64a67c1 failed with error: The system cannot find the file specified. See the Microsoft-Windows-TWinUI/Operational log for additional information."

So I'll reboot and see what happens! *Smile

 

As its a non official release, i wouldn't worry about it.

Roy

 

Well the main problem was that it seemed to be affecting the performance of my PC but yeah at least with it not being able to find it the errors are not happening so that'll do as the best solution for now *Smile

 

Leaked builds require seat belts and airbags. Just be wise and have backups. If you want to play with these builds, do it in a separate partition, or VM. I'm sure you know all this.... just restating. *Wink

 

I would have gladly stayed away from all insider builds the problem was inputmapper wasn't working with Windows 10 Retail and the only way to get it working was a number of unreliable workarounds that were a real pain in the butt! *Smile

 

Well this problem found its way into a Live build and I cant close skypehost.exe, I dont have skype installed, I thought I didnt, I dont fricken want it.

I cant stand MS forcing me to have all these apps I dont want or use to be installed, far as I'm concerned they are all malware.

 

The same crash is still here in Win-10, 1152, (OS build 10586.71). The last build I believe (?).
Some details from windbg. Call-stack:

SkyWrap!MSNPNetworkConnector::queueEvent+0x7
SkyWrap!MSNPManager::endBackgroundMode+0x49
SkyWrap!callback::ThreadCallScheduler::ExecThreadCalls+0x200
SkyWrap!callback::manager::ExecCallbacks+0xc
SkyWrap!Backbone::Run+0x20f
SkyWrap!SplOpaqueUpperLayerThread::run+0x8c
SkyWrap!spl_v18::winrtThreadDispatch+0x49
SkyWrap!spl_v18::winrtThreadEntry+0x87
SkyWrap!spl_v18::ThreadPoolThreadEntry::Invoke+0x45
threadpoolwinrt!Windows::System::Threading::CThreadPoolWorkItem::CommonWorkCallback+0xaf
threadpoolwinrt!Windows::System::Threading::CThreadPoolWorkItem::TimeSlicedCallback+0x27
KERNEL32!BaseThreadInitThunk+0x24
ntdll!__RtlUserThreadStart+0x2f
ntdll!_RtlUserThreadStart+0x1b

And a bit from the module list + offending instruction:
ModLoad: 00320000 00347000 C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Messaging_2.13.20000.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SkypeHost.exe
ModLoad: 77530000 776ab000 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
ModLoad: 74940000 74a20000 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\KERNEL32.DLL
ModLoad: 77050000 771ce000 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\KERNELBASE.dll
ModLoad: 70cb0000 70d42000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\apphelp.dll
ModLoad: 77340000 774fd000 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\combase.dll
ModLoad: 752b0000 7536e000 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\msvcrt.dll
ModLoad: 755e0000 7568d000 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\RPCRT4.dll
ModLoad: 74260000 7427e000 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SspiCli.dll
ModLoad: 74250000 7425a000 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CRYPTBASE.dll
ModLoad: 771d0000 77228000 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\bcryptPrimitives.dll
ModLoad: 70c30000 70c58000 C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Messaging_2.13.20000.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SkypeBackgroundTasks.dll
ModLoad: 757d0000 75814000 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\sechost.dll
ModLoad: 70b30000 70ba1000 C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Messaging_2.13.20000.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\msvcp120_app.dll
ModLoad: 70bb0000 70bec000 C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Messaging_2.13.20000.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\vccorlib120_app.DLL
ModLoad: 70a60000 70b2c000 C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Messaging_2.13.20000.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\msvcr120_app.dll
....

bc4.186c): Access violation - code c0000005 (!!! second chance !!!)
*** WARNING: Unable to verify checksum for C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Messaging_2.13.20000.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SkyWrap.dll
eax=03dbfac0 ebx=00ab5c70 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=00000000 edi=00ae34a8
eip=61df6197 esp=03dbfaf0 ebp=03dbfaf8 iopl=0 nv up ei pl nz na po nc
cs=0023 ss=002b ds=002b es=002b fs=0053 gs=002b efl=00010202
SkyWrap!MSNPNetworkConnector::queueEvent+0x7:
61df6197 8b7e50 mov edi,dword ptr [esi+50h] ds:002b:00000050=????????

 

was just looking at my reliability report monitor thing and noticed something similar.
(C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Messaging_2.13.20000.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\SkypeHost.exe
and combase.dll)

that apparently started right after win10 (threshold 2) updated a bunch of stuff, including messaging+skype on 14/3

doesn't seem to have affected anything in day to day running. (i don't use skype) just bemusing that the error report is logged every 15 minutes for a week and ms hasn't pushed out a fix.

 

That's the main reason I distrust all Metro apps and have un-installed most of them.

Besides, I think this article pretty much sums up the idea behind MS's shift to the Metro-style app market:
http://www.startmenu10.com/Epic-Fail...indows-10.html

 

yeah. i uninstalled a load of apps after seeing that and that's "solved" that. eg.. get office (really? need an app for that?) get skype, messaging & skype, twitter. not sure why but there's a bunch of kinect/speech recognition stuff too.