Vista Business Lost Networking Ability

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dcolanduno

My Vista Business has been humming along perfectly now for months Then,
today, late in the afternoon, for no obvious reason... I completely lost my
network connections. Both my wired and wireless. I rebooted and logged in a
couple times, and still it is gone. I can login to the local machine, but
still no connection, and whe I attempt to change settings in the IE 7 network
preferences, it won't even allow me to hit the 'Ok' button to finalize the
setting changes, it make the animation as if I push it, but no settings save.

So, I went into my Services list and almost all of my networking services
are not 'started' and when I attempt to start them, I get errors... I've
searched around here and Technet, etc, etc... but all of the other folks who
have seemed to have something *similar* happen... aren't really the same
problems. I've attempted some of the 'fixes' in those articles and posts, but
no result.

Why would this happen? Especially the strange in-ability to even set the IE
7 Net Work settings, I have to assume that is the 'root' of my issue. But, I
can't find anyone who seems to have this same problem.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Derek C.
 
I wish I could, but even the Event Viewer won't come up for me. It seems that
suddenly my whole install is worthless. I really don't want to go back to XP,
but this might force me to do it, I can't afford this much downtime just
poking around looking for some mystery reason for my whole OS to just
suddenly go 'boom'. <sigh>

When I try to look at the Event Log and Manager I get:

"Event Log service is unavailable. Verify that the service is running."

So I go into the 'Services' menu to see if I can just start that service...
then I get this annoying error:

"Windows could not start the Windows Event Log service on Local Computer.
Error 1747: The authentation service is unknown."

Any ideas?
 
Same problem. Can't logon any users who aren't in the administrator's group,
as well. All seem to share a dependency to the System Event Notification
Service not starting.

In the services view this services shows as 'starting' , but it never does.
I've attempted to halt it and manually start the service, to no avail.

I've un-installed all Windows and Office updates automatically installed
without any further success.

I've run 'sfc /scannow' from the command prompt, as suggested in other forum
replies.

This happened once before to this PC in November or early December 2007, I
recovered to an earlier recovery point and all worked again; until the next
batch of Auto Updates installed themselves.

I'd really like to fix this before blowing the Vista Business away and
loading XP. Makes the purchase of Office 2007 a very silly option, when the
only O/S it runs on won't run.
 
If you receive error 1747, some system files may be damaged or it could be a
3rd party software issue. Since you have 'sfc /scannow', try to start the
Vista with clean boot or safe mode. Also the following post may help too.

Error 1747: The authentication service is unknown
http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums/viewtopic.php?p=5185#5185

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Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
http://www.HowToNetworking.com
 
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