What is Kservice and why won't it start?

[Kenny]

This is a regular recurring error showing in Event Viewer:

" Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 30/06/2008
Time: 00:47:34
User: N/A
Computer: KENNY-0CA1E1F67
Description:
The KService service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the path specified.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."

Clicking on the link to MS doesn't help.
Event viewer just says it's Delivery Manager Service but no explanation of
what it is.
Googling it came up with "open services.msc" and start it from there.
Problem is it won't start, message is "Could not start the Kservice. Error
3: The system cannot find the path specified".
I'm trying to pin down a crashing and rebooting problem when I try to create
a virtual drive or using a usb mobile broadband dongle.
Any advice appreciated.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Click Start, Run. Type:

cmd /k sc qc KService

This gives you some information (and the file name) about the "KService"
service.

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog
Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com

 

[Kenny]

Thanks for the reply, doing that gives me:

"[SC] GetServiceConfig SUCCESS

SERVICE_NAME: KService
TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
START_TYPE : 2 AUTO_START
ERROR_CONTROL : 1 NORMAL
BINARY_PATH_NAME : "C:\Program Files\Kontiki\KService.exe"
LOAD_ORDER_GROUP :
TAG : 0
DISPLAY_NAME : KService
DEPENDENCIES : RPCSS
SERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem

C:\Documents and Settings\Kenny>[SC] GetServiceConfig SUCCESS

SERVICE_NAME: KService
TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
START_TYPE : 2 AUTO_START
ERROR_CONTROL : 1 NORMAL
BINARY_PATH_NAME : "C:\Program Files\Kontiki\KService.exe"
LOAD_ORDER_GROUP :
TAG : 0
DISPLAY_NAME : KService
DEPENDENCIES : RPCSS
SERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem

C:\Documents and Settings\Kenny>"

Don't know how to interpret this but it seems to be working, yet if I do a
"Find" on "C:\Program Files\Kontiki\KService.exe" it can't be found and I
have no "Kontiki" folder in my Program Files!

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Kenny Cargill

Click Start, Run. Type:

cmd /k sc qc KService

This gives you some information (and the file name) about the "KService"
service.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog
Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com

This is a regular recurring error showing in Event Viewer:

" Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 30/06/2008
Time: 00:47:34
User: N/A
Computer: KENNY-0CA1E1F67
Description:
The KService service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the path specified.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."

Clicking on the link to MS doesn't help.
Event viewer just says it's Delivery Manager Service but no explanation
of what it is.
Googling it came up with "open services.msc" and start it from there.
Problem is it won't start, message is "Could not start the Kservice.
Error 3: The system cannot find the path specified".
I'm trying to pin down a crashing and rebooting problem when I try to
create a virtual drive or using a usb mobile broadband dongle.
Any advice appreciated.

 

[Malke]

Thanks for the reply, doing that gives me:
(snippage)

BINARY_PATH_NAME : "C:\Program Files\Kontiki\KService.exe"

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=what+is+Kontiki&btnG=Search

Kontiki is a delivery service for something you installed. If you want to
keep whatever it was that you installed, you can change the Kontiki service
to "Manual" instead of "Automatic".

Malke

 

[Kenneth]

Channel 4 (4oD) uses this delivery manager when you watch free or pay to
watch programmes.

Possibly BBC iPlayer also uses it but I'm not sure about that one.

I had this KService with Sky Anytime ( in UK ) . It was using my broadband
connection without my knowledge to report to Sky. I ditched the lot. No
spies on my machine, please.

 

[Kenny]

Thanks for all the replies.
It seems I was connecting the virtual drive/crashing problem to that Event
Viewer error and it turned out not to be.
I have 2 DVDRW drives and disconnecting one cured the virtual
drive/crashing. I had suspected a hardware fault and was disconnecting
things one at a time.
As for Kservice someone mentioned BBC I Player. I have used that so am
trying a reinstall to see if it gets rid of the error. Not too worried now
about that, glad I got the crashing resolved.

 

[Kenny]

Just to add re-installing BBC I Player fixed the Kservice error. The
replies in this group pointed me in the right direction so thanks to all.