Help security center service won't start

[Lothar]

I installed SP2 about a week ago and all was fine until a few days ago when
the security center service stopped loading. They event veiwer lists this
reason, The Security Center service has been stopped. It was prevented from
running by a software group policy. How can I see what policy is stopping
it?

Lothar

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

I installed SP2 about a week ago and all was fine until a few days ago when
the security center service stopped loading. They event veiwer lists this
reason, The Security Center service has been stopped. It was prevented from
running by a software group policy. How can I see what policy is stopping
it?

Hi

I would think your computer is joined to a domain.

If the computer is member of a domain, the Security Center is
default disabled, and you will see this entry in the Application
event log (Source: SecurityCenter, Event ID: 1807):

"The Security Center service has been stopped. It was prevented
from running by a software group policy."

For a domain computer, this is normal and by design, the Security
Center is default turned off (and you will get the message mentioned
above in the event log). There is a Group Policy setting available
if you want to turn it on (domain wide or just for your computer
using Start/Run--> gpedit.msc).

Take a look at the chapter for the Security Center in
06_CIF_Maintenance.DOC

Security Center
What settings are added or changed in Windows XP Service Pack 2?
Group Policy settings (page 26 for me)



06_CIF_Maintenance.DOC ("Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP
Service Pack 2, Part 6: Computer Maintenance") can be downloaded from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...d7-b791-40b6-8364-685b84158c78&DisplayLang=en

Note: WinXPSP2_Documentation.zip contains all the .doc downloads...