SP2 Security Center Service

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After Installation, the security center service willnot start and I am unable
to start it by rebooting or manually in the services control panel. Any ideas?
 
Robert said:
After Installation, the security center service willnot start and I am unable
to start it by rebooting or manually in the services control panel. Any ideas?
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Hi

Is this a computer that is joined to a domain?

From a previous post by me:

If the computer is member of a domain, the Security Center is
default disabled, and you will see this entry in the Application
event log (Source: SecurityCenter, Event ID: 1807):

"The Security Center service has been stopped. It was prevented
from running by a software group policy."

For a domain computer, this is normal and by design, the Security
Center is default turned off (and you will get the message mentioned
above in the event log). There is a Group Policy setting available
if you want to turn it on (domain wide or just for your computer
using Start/Run--> gpedit.msc).

Take a look at the chapter for the Security Center in
06_CIF_Maintenance.DOC

Security Center
What settings are added or changed in Windows XP Service Pack 2?
Group Policy settings (page 26 for me)



06_CIF_Maintenance.DOC ("Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP
Service Pack 2, Part 6: Computer Maintenance") can be downloaded from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...d7-b791-40b6-8364-685b84158c78&DisplayLang=en

Note: WinXPSP2_Documentation.zip contains all the .doc downloads...
 
This machine is part of a two computer home workgroup. Both are identical
software, but one year apart Compaq Workstations. Both had McAfee antivirus
turned off during the download. One machine worked fine and the other is
unable to start the security center service. I uninstalled and reinstalled
once but no joy. I was looking to see if anyone else has the problem starting
the service and how it might be fixed. I am unable to share files between the
machines now that the one machine is not able to start the service. thanks
for any assistance.
 
Robert said:
This machine is part of a two computer home workgroup. Both are identical
software, but one year apart Compaq Workstations. Both had McAfee antivirus
turned off during the download. One machine worked fine and the other is
unable to start the security center service. I uninstalled and reinstalled
once but no joy. I was looking to see if anyone else has the problem starting
the service and how it might be fixed. I am unable to share files between the
machines now that the one machine is not able to start the service. thanks
for any assistance.
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Hi

It is very unlikely that the Security Center service have anything
to do with the file sharing problem. The Security Center service
is a monitoring service that checks status on Antivirus protection,
Automatic Update and Windows Firewall and nothing else.

If you haven't tried already, disable the Windows Firewall on the
computers and see if it works better then. If it does, you will need
to configure some firewall exceptions.
 
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