Have anyone experience this problem before? Need your advice. It seems to be functioning fine, before I uninstalled Mcafee Security Center, ran a Mcafee removal program, MCPR and installed kaspersky internet security 2011. Window 7 cannot even shutdown after that. Try to End the viewer using task Manager, error pop up saying COM Surrogate stopped working. I advise them to ensure data security first with MiniTool Software then, try to fix the error by referring to methods that will be mentioned in the next part.ĬOM Surrogate has stopped working Windows 7 photo viewer: The window photo viewer seem to be hang (Not responding) after some flipping through image file at a picture folder.
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The COM Surrogate is actually a legitimate process used to host DLL files, show thumbnails, and help to get File Explorer to work ( how to fix when File Explorer stops working?).Ī lot of users said they have met the error message: COM Surrogate has stopped working. If you go to see its details, you’ll find the real process name is dllhost.exe.ĬOM stands for Component Object Model its main function is to allow developers to create COM objects by taking advantage of different programming languages. It is also known as COM Surrogate, which is running in the background of your Windows.
As known to all, the dllhost.exe file is an important system file in Windows.