service control manager "access is denied"

[Mad Max]

Hi all,

I am helping a friend set up XP Pro at home. He is set up as the
administrator and his wife as a user. Whenever she logs on she gets a
SCMan error, and a message Service control manager: access is denied.
Whatever is causing it is appearing in the system tray with an Asus
icon (some util that runs for the motherboard I think). Where would I
look to find what is causing that.

Also, in his wife's account, occasionally every thme she opens a
folder, any folder the dialer opens up and attempts to dial out. Has
anyone seen this type of behavior before? It goes away if you reboot,
but pops up unexpectedly.

Max...

 

[Ally]

I am helping a friend set up XP Pro at home. He is set up as the
administrator and his wife as a user. Whenever she logs on she gets a
SCMan error, and a message Service control manager: access is denied.
Whatever is causing it is appearing in the system tray with an Asus
icon (some util that runs for the motherboard I think). Where would I
look to find what is causing that.

Quoting from http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_s.php :

"SCMan is a utility that can control services on WinNT from the command
line. This utility can create, start, pause, stop, delete services.
Furthermore it can retrieve a service's current state, get the displayname
for a service and vice versa"

Seems like scman.exe would require admin privileges to run properly. If you
don't need it (and it doesn't sound like it'd do anything services.msc
wouldn't do?), see if you can locate it with msconfig.exe and uncheck it.

Alternatively, use something like the "Startup Control Panel" to keep the
autorunning to a minimum. It's available at
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml -- I find it quite useful.

Also, in his wife's account, occasionally every thme she opens a
folder, any folder the dialer opens up and attempts to dial out. Has
anyone seen this type of behavior before? It goes away if you reboot,
but pops up unexpectedly.

Sorry, no idea. But I recommend you run an (updated) virus scanner if you
haven't already.

~Ally