disabled wrong services

[Guest]

A colleague has diabled too many services on win 2000 pro and now the system
starts up but fails in multiple areas - I've been into services and cannot
open the properties for each service to change the settings. When I do
select a service property nothing happens. I've exhausted my knowledge in
this area and hope someone can help?

Tia

 

[Guest]

Here is the fix that I finally used:

Click on Start, Run, type in regedit & hit Enter. Open the following
registry key, [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services]. This is
where the Startup type for every Service is also stored. Select the
appropriate Service (If unsure check the DisplayName value in the Right hand
pane) from this subfolder. In the Right hand pane there will be a DWORD value
entitled Start. The value (Decimal or Hexadecimal) for this entry determines
the Services Startup type, as in the previous section. To change the value
Right click on the entry & select Modify. Valid values are as follows;

A value of 2 sets the Startup type to Automatic.

A value of 3 sets the Startup type to Manual.

A value of 4 sets the Startup type to Disable.

e.g.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PlugPlay] key the
value for Start is to 4, i.e. Disabled.