XP Pro Workstation Service, and it's dependents refuse to start.

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A while back, I spent some time experimenting with different service start up configurations, using pre-written registry patches obtained from the "Black Viper" web sight, along with some manual settings (disable, manual, automatic) I thought I had them pretty trimmed down to the way I wanted / needed. Than I discovered that the "lanmanworkstation service was not running at startup automatically as it was set to. Upon trying to run this service, I get an ERROR 3, PATH NOT AVAILABLE message. Furthermore, I am not allowed to enter the path manually in the properties dialog box for this service. Of course there are several other services dependent on this one that also fail to start. The system still runs, but with sluggish start up, and predictably, many many error messages written to the to the event viewer. I have set all back to default, to no avail. Any ideas ???????
 
Check this setting in the registry >>

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation
ImagePath
REG_EXPAND_SZ
%SystemRoot%\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs

[[Creates and maintains client network connections to remote servers. If
this service is stopped, these connections will be unavailable. If this
service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to
start.]]
 
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