Repair install and Services

[warwound]

Hi all.

I'm running XP Pro and a while back i tweaked my services using
various guides i found on the internet.
I disabled/set to manual some services such as terminal services and
other mainly networking services as my pc was no longer on a network.

Well i am now back on a network and want to restore the services to
their default startup settings - manual or auto.

If i peform a repair installtion will the repair set services to their
default settings?

Thanks.

Martin.

 

[Universe_JDJ]

Hi all.

I'm running XP Pro and a while back i tweaked my services using
various guides i found on the internet.
I disabled/set to manual some services such as terminal services and
other mainly networking services as my pc was no longer on a network.

Well i am now back on a network and want to restore the services to
their default startup settings - manual or auto.

If i peform a repair installtion will the repair set services to their
default settings?

Thanks.

Martin.

Why don't you just experiment and find out what you need to revert?

Start --> Run --> services.msc

That or I'm positive there's at least one guide which I've read before
which has the default state for all the XP services.

 

[Richard in AZ]

Hi all.

I'm running XP Pro and a while back i tweaked my services using
various guides i found on the internet.
I disabled/set to manual some services such as terminal services and
other mainly networking services as my pc was no longer on a network.

Well i am now back on a network and want to restore the services to
their default startup settings - manual or auto.

If i peform a repair installtion will the repair set services to their
default settings?

Thanks.

Martin.

Why not just "tweak" them back to the setting you want?
A "Repair Installation" uses the same registry and will not make the changes there.
Plus you will lose all of your Windows Updates.

 

[Nepatsfan]

In

Hi all.

I'm running XP Pro and a while back i tweaked my services
using
various guides i found on the internet.
I disabled/set to manual some services such as terminal
services and
other mainly networking services as my pc was no longer on a
network.

Well i am now back on a network and want to restore the
services to
their default startup settings - manual or auto.

If i peform a repair installtion will the repair set services
to their
default settings?

Thanks.

Martin.

Rather than reinstall XP, you might consider resetting the
services you changed. Here's a web site which shows you the
default settings.

Windows XP Service Pack 2 Service Configurations
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[John John]

Hi all.

I'm running XP Pro and a while back i tweaked my services using
various guides i found on the internet.
I disabled/set to manual some services such as terminal services and
other mainly networking services as my pc was no longer on a network.

Well i am now back on a network and want to restore the services to
their default startup settings - manual or auto.

If i peform a repair installtion will the repair set services to their
default settings?

What is it that is not working? What problems are you having on the
network? If things work fine, why reinstall Windows? If things don't
quite work well why not describe the problem and attempt to address what
may be a minor thing to repair? Reinstalling the operating system may
be a drastic measure at this point and time.

John

 

[WaIIy]

Hi all.

I'm running XP Pro and a while back i tweaked my services using
various guides i found on the internet.
I disabled/set to manual some services such as terminal services and
other mainly networking services as my pc was no longer on a network.

Well i am now back on a network and want to restore the services to
their default startup settings - manual or auto.

If i peform a repair installtion will the repair set services to their
default settings?

Thanks.

Martin.

Lookee here, shows the defaults.

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

 

[warwound]

Thanks for all the replies.

Guess my original question could have been re-phrased as 'will a
repair install be a lazy way to restore my services rather than
manually going thru them and comparing them to the default settings
that i can find on the web'!!

I'll go thru them manually see where that gets me.

My main problems have been Internet Connection Sharing and Remote
Desktop not working.
I restored both Terminal Services and ICS/Firewall and they still
didn't work.
It'll be one of the obscurer network related services that i'll also
have to restore to manual or auto i bet.

Martin.