Rundll32 problem, Help please

[peterwatson4]

Hello to all,
I have a new(6 month old) sony vaio vgn-n38e running on vista home premium.
The notebook has been working fine untill about 2 weeks ago. Now when ever I put a dvd film into the drive, I get 'windows host process (rundll32) has stopped working' message. Also 'windows explorer' shuts down and restarts.
I can still play the dvd, and all appears ok, but the message and windows shutdown is worrying.
The only things I have downloaded recently were 1) windows update from microsoft 2) sony update from club vaio (If I remember correctly this update did have something to do with sony media, but I may be wrong)
Do any of you guys out there have any ideas? I tried googling the problem and got many links but none identical to my problem.
regards and thanks
Peter

[itbroker]

Can you use the driver to play music either, or to transfer data files to any CD / DVD the problem persist ?

[peterwatson4]

Thanks for your reply itbroker, Ive been away and appologise for my late reply.

I have never used the drive to write discs but it plays music and films ok.
The problem lasted for 7 to 10 days and then disappeared as quickly as it appeared? All seems to be ok now but I will keep my fingers crossed.
Regards
Peter

[itbroker]

Okidoki. Case Closed.