Solved: “COM Surrogate has stopped working” in windows 10, 8.1 and 7

After windows 10 1809 upgrade Getting error, the COM Surrogate has stopped working whenever punch the Start button.

Or open photo viewer?

COM Surrogate is a basic Windows 10 process that is in charge of showing thumbnails and similar information.

Start your box in a clean boot state and then check for the error.

Add dllhost.exe to the DEP Exception

When you choose apply this will show a message.

To continue disabling Data Execution prevention, click OK.

Here choose ok and Restart the windows to take effect the changes.

Hope after this changes you didnt face the Error com surrogate has stopped working.

To do this first OpenCommand Prompt as administrator.

key in following commands one by one and press enter key after every command.

After that once Restart the system and check hope you didnt face the com surrogate has stopped working Error.

still, face the same error follow the next step.

Sometimes a corrupt image or video file can cause issues with COM Surrogate process.

And since this image or video is corrupt, COM Surrogate wont be able to access it.

Before we can delete the problematic file, we need to disable thumbnails first.

In most cases that file is an image or a video file on your setup.

You might have to close COM Surrogate ordllhost.exeusingTask Manager to make it delete that file.

Turn thumbnails back on.