svchost.exe crashed three or four hours ago, again. My apps have gone out one by one. First uTorrent and MSN. Second, taskmanager.exe is not showing up. explorer.exe just gave out 5 minutes ago.

I can't start new processes, that also includes the command prompt, so the only programs still working are firefox.exe, iTunes and the DownThemAll plugin for Firefox. The only reason I haven't restarted is because of the last functioning item that I listed. One more hour to go.

I already did a full systems diagnosis to solve this problem this morning, even rooted out a virus or two, but no, this problem keeps coming up and it has been happening quite a while, especially with large applications, ie ones that take up a lot of hard drive space but this time it happened spontaneously while I was multitasking as usual. An expert in the field told me it could be due to my internet connection, which I can almost agree with seeing how the RAM checks out fine and that svchost.exe is also a networking related process, as my dorm's ISP is TOT, a government backed company that has reliability issues.

Despite being in a field of study full of computer people, I still can't find a cause for this problem. Any help beyond a hard reset and hoping it doesn't happen again soon or God forbid, getting a Mac (I absolutely refuse, don't even bother trying), would be appreciated.

hrm.... i don't think that svchost is your main problem

and if explorer goes, windows is programmed to reboot it automatically within a few seconds, and if it doesn't, you may have a bigger problem
your expert could be right also, but other problems arise from what you say

I don't think so either. But the reason it crashed was because it could not read a memory location that an instruction told it to go read.

yea... if i'm correct, that's a hard drive error
that happened to me once... if you can run chkdsk, it may fix it-
chkdsk would block out the bad bits (memory locations) that are screwed up on your hard drive.... however there is a chance if one goes bad,the rest will go bad shortly after (could be a couple days, to a couple years) so i would back up everything asap

Full system check says my hard drive is fine.

oh... well maybe...
some virus is messin with you, do you have virus protection?

Did you even read my first post?