re: can't start/stop services Monday, February 28, 2005 at 5:20 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Johnoh (41 messages posted) thanks for all your help borg. I replaced and re-registered filemgmt.dll and now its working. On Monday, February 28, 2005 at 2:53 pm, borg wrote: >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 (borg: Monday, February 28, 2005 at 2:53 pm) Responses to this message: re: can't start/stop services (TjL: Friday, March 18, 2005 at 10:03 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