"Reload file?" error in codeblocks

Question

Hi,

I'm using codeblocks to as my IDE for C++ and every 10mins or so I get the following error message:

"Reload File? File c:...node.cpp is modified outside the IDE. Do you want to reload it? (you will lose andy unsaved work)" Yes/No/All/Cancel

If I click yes by mistake sometimes I lose the last couple of minutes of work. If I click no then everything remains ok.

So I downloaded "Process Monitor" to find out what program was accessing my cpp file and it tells me that SVCHost may be the culprit.

As far as I'm aware SVCHost is responsible for all sorts of things. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to stop receiving this error message?

N.B. This error message didn't appear for the first month or so that I used codeblocks, but I have no idea what I've done that might have caused the problem.

[Screenshot][http://i44.tinypic.com/sgk3sx.jpg]

Answer 1

You're right in that svchost is a generic process name that is used by a multitude of different services. I think the reason was to prevent a lot of processes for every tiny little service that might want to do something - a group of them will share a single svchost process.

Process Explorer from Sysinternals can be used to figure out what services are being performed by a specific svchost process by finding the process ID (1296 in your JPEG file) and double-clicking on the entry.

Then, in the properties dialog that appears, choose the services tab and it will show you the particular services using that process.

If you don't want to (or can't) install Process Explorer, you can use the command-line:

tasklist /svc /fi "imagename eg svchost.exe"

to get a list of all the services in each process.