Services won't run, no networking.

[Guest]

Greetings,

I'm running Running Windows Vista Home Premium with home LAN (wired) to
cable modem. The computer cannot connect to network (169 IP address).
Network & Sharing Center says "Unknown: The dependency service or group
failed to start," but Network Diagnostics "cannot run because the Diagnostic
Policy Service is not running." Trying to start Diagnostic Policy Service
results in "Error 5: Access is denied." (This happens even when running
Service Control Manager as
Administrator.)

The Event Log is full of errors in VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service), WerSvc
(Windows Feedback Platform), EventSystem (COM+), CAPI2 and Search.

Any ideas?

--Nevet
Any suggestions?

 

[peter]

I had problem similar to that were certain services related to Event Viewer
and others would not start.I tried various things with Vista Support as well
as help from this newsgroup and none worked...................I finally
re-installed Vista Home Premium into the same folder as the original
installation and from then on everything worked.
peter

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Peter. I was trying to avoid having to re-install Vista but there
seemed no escaping it. Now that I've reinstalled (over the existing
installation), the problem has changed, but not gone away. The services seem
okay now--Network Diagnostics runs, and does not find any problems.

However, I still can't get full network connectivity. I have an IP address
(on my LAN) and can successfully Ping both LAN and Internet sites; DNS
resolution works fine. However, I cannot access LAN resources or Web pages
by either URL or IP address (though for some reason, I can actually get to
HTTPS pages). When I run Outlook, it can see and report the number of
messages pending on my ISP's server and their size, but cannot download them.
Very strange....

Any thoughts?

 

[ajv]

Had a similar problem. Reinstalled the NIC driver and all was well.

Albert