Is there something going on that i dont know about?

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Recently, I found that two xp computers on my network boot up with certain
services that are set to start automatically by default do not start... these
services include the following...
browser service
dhcp client
dns client

and others.....
i find no viruses.....
is there some security updates possibly that caused this?... ive been
hearing rumors that ms updates lately have been messing things up....
thanks
 
rob said:
Recently, I found that two xp computers on my network boot up with
certain services that are set to start automatically by default do
not start... these services include the following...
browser service
dhcp client
dns client

and others.....
i find no viruses.....
is there some security updates possibly that caused this?... ive
been hearing rumors that ms updates lately have been messing things
up....
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If you can find a month in the past 5 years where that 'rumor' has not been
'going around' - I would be in shock.

While it is possible there might be an update or many over ythe years that
MS released and it either caused issues on most or some or a few
computers... And while it is possible that updates are your problem now - I
have not heard of your particulars for this round of releases. If you
believe the updates to be the problem - uninstall them and see if it fixes
the systems.

Also - have you looked in the event log to see why the services in question
have 'failed to start'?
 
rob davis said:
Recently, I found that two xp computers on my network boot up with
certain services that are set to start automatically by default do
not start... these services include the following...
browser service
dhcp client
dns client

and others.....
i find no viruses.....
is there some security updates possibly that caused this?... ive been
hearing rumors that ms updates lately have been messing things up....
thanks
Click to expand...

On the off chance that this is the same problem I've seen recently -

Run taskmgr and see whether SVCHOST.exe is using close to 100% of your CPU
cycles (and staying there). I have had this problem on several machines, and
the service failure went away once I fixed that. Automatic Updates was to
blame - download the KB927891 fix for starters. I also had to download the
Windows Update Agent 3 (even tho I wasn't using WSUS) -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926464. I then re-set Windows Update using a
batch file....

net stop "Automatic Updates"
del /f /s /q %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\*.*
net start "Automatic Updates"
wuauclt.exe /detectnow

Then reboot and run WU/Microsoft Update and make sure everything is fully
patched.
 
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