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Brian Craigie
XP Home machine suddenly started running slower than a ZX81. Takes 30
minutes to boot and ages to do anything. I ran msconfig, clicked the
services tab and found that there are no services listed there at all.
None. The "Hide all Microsoft Services" is not ticked.
Looked in Device manager, but that's empty too. Weird!
Can't get into safe mode because it says one of the services is
missing and shuts down in 45 seconds.
Virus scanned the disk on another machine and it is clean.
Tried to upgrade to XP SP2 to see if it would fix things, but it says
the cryptographic service isn't running and can't process the
update.inf file. Hardly surprising as it [the service] isn't there
apparently.
Tried to start the service from the command line, but it gave an
error:
1307 This security ID may not be assigned as the owner of this object
Hmmm...
Any ideas? I can get into regedit, and as far as I can see, all the
correct services are listed in there in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\SvcHost
Don't have an XP Home CD (it's a PC with a stupid recovery partition
that wipes everything out). I have an XP Pro CD. Would it be safe to
boot using that to try a repair, or will that bugger things up?
TIA
Brian
minutes to boot and ages to do anything. I ran msconfig, clicked the
services tab and found that there are no services listed there at all.
None. The "Hide all Microsoft Services" is not ticked.
Looked in Device manager, but that's empty too. Weird!
Can't get into safe mode because it says one of the services is
missing and shuts down in 45 seconds.
Virus scanned the disk on another machine and it is clean.
Tried to upgrade to XP SP2 to see if it would fix things, but it says
the cryptographic service isn't running and can't process the
update.inf file. Hardly surprising as it [the service] isn't there
apparently.
Tried to start the service from the command line, but it gave an
error:
1307 This security ID may not be assigned as the owner of this object
Hmmm...
Any ideas? I can get into regedit, and as far as I can see, all the
correct services are listed in there in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\SvcHost
Don't have an XP Home CD (it's a PC with a stupid recovery partition
that wipes everything out). I have an XP Pro CD. Would it be safe to
boot using that to try a repair, or will that bugger things up?
TIA
Brian