Windows Services Disabled Involuntarily

[Guest]

Selective Windows XP services get disabled involuntarily even if they are set
to manual or auto. They go back to being disabled randomly when I log off,
restart, or shut down/boot. Sometimes the services will stay at the settings
I choose, but otherwise they will become disabled. I have the following set
to auto: Telephony, Remote Access Connection Manager, Event Log, Windows
Audio. Others are disabled or on manual by choice. But they all randomly
become disabled. I cannot figure out what is going on. I checked my
firewall/program control for any blocking
issues. I checked for viruses/spyware. Also I used registry mechanic to check
for registry issues. No problems came up for any of them and I'm really
having trouble having to manually set all the services manually all the time.
It's time consuming and annoying. Please give me any ideas for what may have
happened to my OS. Thanks.

 

[PA Bear]

One or more options/settings in an ever-growing number of third-party
applications may be disallowing the change(s) you make from "sticking".
These include but are not limited to Ad-aware's Ad-Watch, Spybot Tea Timer,
SpywareBlaster, SpySweeper, Spyware Doctor, Norton AntiVirus, McAfee
VirusScan and/or Antispyware, and Zone Alarm (Free and Pro).