Help! Services not starting in Win2000 Server

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Bruce W...1

In the interest of security I disabled a few services in Windows 2000
Server, but now everything has gone to hell in a handbasket.

I think the root cause is disabling Remote Access Connection and Remote
Procedure Call.

On boot I get an error in the event log that says Service Control
Manager but no details are available. Also on boot I did an F8 start
last known good configuration, but this configuration is screwed-up too.

In Component Services, most of the serivices I now try to start give an
error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start.

For the services that are disabled I am not able to show their
properties, so that I may enable them.

In Control Panel the Add/Remove Programs dialog does not display
properly so its not usable.

In IE I am not able to right click a link and say 'open in new window'.

Tried restoring the registry from a backup but it said error reading
file.

I'm at wits end. Does anyone know how to fix this, or at least restore
the services to their default setting?

Thanks for your help.
 
From the recovery console command prompt;

enable SomeService service_auto_start

Choose from one of the following;
SERVICE_BOOT_START
SERVICE_SYSTEM_START
SERVICE_AUTO_START
SERVICE_DEMAND_START
 
I did the exact same (dumb) thing you did and disabled RPC. (no good
deed goes unpunished)
How I fixed it:
go into regedit
find HKLM\system\CurrentControlSet\Services\RpcSs
Change value the entry "Start" to be 0x00000002 (2) which equates to
"Automatic" in the Windows services. Reboot and it should work.


Unregistered -
 
I did the exact same (dumb) thing you did and disabled RPC. (no good
deed goes unpunished)
How I fixed it:
go into regedit and find
HKLM\System\ CurrentControlSet\Services\RpcSs
Change value the entry "Start" to be 0x00000002 (2) which equates to
"Automatic" in the Windows services. Reboot and it should work.

Posted a second time to make it more readable.


Dave_Z -
 
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