Boot msg: "Group policy client service failed to start"

[Sabian Smith]

Anyone know why I get this error (pop-up window in system tray) every time I
boot Vista Business 32bit?

"Group policy client services failed to start".

I am on a domain, and the computer/network otherwise works perfectly. Here
is Event Log data:

Reason: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a
timely fashion.
Details:

[ Name] Service Control Manager
[ Guid] {555908D1-A6D7-4695-8E1E-26931D2012F4}
[ EventSourceName] Service Control Manager
- EventID 7000
[ Qualifiers] 49152

Version 0
Level 2
Task 0
Opcode 0

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2008-07-23T01:39:42.000Z

EventRecordID 46478
Correlation
- Execution
[ ProcessID] 0
[ ThreadID] 0

Channel System
Computer SEN006.Sen.local

Security

- EventData

param1 Group Policy Client
param2 %%1053

 

[Sabian Smith]

Any ideas?

If I start up services.msi, Group Services Client is not running, and all
options to start , stop it etc are grey'd out?