Dependency services

[Gary Shortt]

My Daughter ok'd her way out of somewhere, I don't know?
but when she was done nearly nothing will open up and the
system restore will not open to put it back.
The search or help either one will open, and the
properties on everything will not open. I will lose a ton
if I have to reformat, there just has to be a way to turn
everything back on, All I know is she was in
the "Services" area and things didn't go well, have tried
for 3 weeks now and still no luck.

P.S.
It boots up very slow, as in around 3 to 4 min.
I am using the work computer for this, please help!!
Gary Shortt

 

[Malke]

My Daughter ok'd her way out of somewhere, I don't know?
but when she was done nearly nothing will open up and the
system restore will not open to put it back.
The search or help either one will open, and the
properties on everything will not open. I will lose a ton
if I have to reformat, there just has to be a way to turn
everything back on, All I know is she was in
the "Services" area and things didn't go well, have tried
for 3 weeks now and still no luck.

P.S.
It boots up very slow, as in around 3 to 4 min.
I am using the work computer for this, please help!!
Gary Shortt

Rescue data that you neglected to back up first and then try a repair
install. There are various ways of rescuing data from a system that
won't work properly: booting with Knoppix (a Linux distro that runs
from cd) and burning the data to cd-r; slaving the hard drive in
another XP box and pulling the data off that way. If this sounds
daunting (and it's OK if it does), then take the machine to a good
local computer repair shop and have them back up your data and fix
Windows. Here are links to information about installing Windows:

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm - Repair Install
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install

You might want to make your daughter a Limited User in the next
go-round! ;-)

Good luck,

Malke

 

[Guest]

I know it seems like a daunting task but really the services list isn' that long. I would simply go through each and every item and to start with set them to Automatic and then click the start button and then close out. Reboot and see what happens. www.blkviper.com has an excellent site that will explain each and every service, what it does, and will give you three different configurations depending on what you are using the computer for. There really isn't any harm in turning every service on until you find what you do or don't need. Be sure you have a working Anti-Virus program running as well as the firewall. Turning some services on can leave you vulnerable to attack but Microsoft has that mostly fixed by now. Post back as to your progress or e:mail me if you need further assistance.