re: can't start/stop services Monday, February 28, 2005 at 2:53 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by borg (2664 messages posted) Some more research is needed here. Regedit to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services Verify (with r-click, permissions) that Administrators and SYSTEM have full control on the above key and no "deny" is checked. Ok if the permission is grayed, means that is inherited from the parent key. Now try to start/stop a service from command prompt. Remember some not-disabled but non-essential service? Maybe "help and support" (helpsvc). Or "automatic updates" (wuauserv). net stop helpsvc net start helpsvc Query a service and post the result: sc query helpsvc The type for this service should be "20 WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS". Or you can query all non-kernel (administrable) services, but it's a long list: sc query type= service [space only after equals] If all these work as they should it's some MMC problem and I'm out of ideas. Services can be controlled via command line... Written in response to: re: can't start/stop services (Johnoh: Monday, February 28, 2005 at 1:31 pm) Responses to this message: re: can't start/stop services (Johnoh: Monday, February 28, 2005 at 5:20 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] can't start/stop services (Johnoh: Mon, Feb 28, 2005, 11:25 am) re: can't start/stop services (borg: Mon, Feb 28, 2005, 11:49 am) re: can't start/stop services (Johnoh: Mon, Feb 28, 2005, 12:38 pm) re: can't start/stop services (borg: Mon, Feb 28, 2005, 12:49 pm) re: can't start/stop services (Johnoh: Mon, Feb 28, 2005, 1:31 pm) re: can't start/stop services (Johnoh: Mon, Feb 28, 2005, 2:40 pm) re: can't start/stop services (borg: Mon, Feb 28, 2005, 2:53 pm) re: can't start/stop services (Johnoh: Mon, Feb 28, 2005, 5:20 pm) re: can't start/stop services (TjL: Fri, Mar 18, 2005, 10:03 pm) re: can't start/stop services (Amber: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 6:06 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum