Missing Services

[OzWolf]

Greetings,

Well, the strangest thing happened to me recently. While stopping the Workstation service one day (I do this when I remove my computer from the home network) the system froze completely and gave me a blue screen of death.

A little perturbed but not too worried, I reset the machine and started. Everything ran fine until I wanted to restart the Workstation service.

It, and all of its dependents, had disappeared. Checks of the registry failed to find lanmanworkstation anywhere.

Short of reinstalling windows from scratch (a simple Upgrade didn't help), is there a way to recover these services?

I tried importing the required services from another XP box I have but only get errors (specifically 2250) when I try to start them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

OzWolf

 

[bcastner]

I am a little baffled at your approach to disconnecting from the network. Why were you stopping lanman workstation services to disconnect?

I am a little baffled too by your repair description. When you say "(a simple Upgrade didn't help)" do you mean you did a repair or in-place reinstallation, or something else? And when you say: "I tried importing the required services from another XP box I have but only get errors (specifically 2250) when I try to start them." Do you mean you imported whole registry keys, just the services files, or both?

Being slightly clueless here, what you could try:

1. Use System Restore to reach a point prior to the problem.

2. If you have not imported registry keys, you could attempt to rebuild the services.

1. Start, Run, sfc /scannow Have your XP CD handy.

Follow this with a Qfecheck:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=282784

3. If that is not possible, do an in-place upgrade of XP if you have not tried that yet:

http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q315/3/41.asp&NoWebContent=1

You will need to re-apply Service Pack 1 and all Hotfixes by going through Windows Update.

4. If you have already tried #3, including reinstalling Service Pack #1 and all hotfixes, I think a clean install is likely the only promising recourse for you if you do not have a full backup that you could use instead.

Please reply by answering why you felt stopping services was the approach needed to disconnect from your Home LAN, as other suggestions can be made to better handle this issue in the future.

 

[OzWolf]

There was a method to my madness and it was called laziness. I haven't had time to properly configure this XP Pro box and as such, upon logging in, it takes the computer about 5 minutes to get the Workstation (and all it's dependants) started which gets extremely annoying when you're testing and rebooting the box as often as I am. Given that I only needed to use that service group occassionally (and my internet still works fine without it), I would only start the service when I needed the computer to actually access other computers in the network.

I really should've taken the time to sit down and troubleshoot the login issue, but as such, I'm paying for my laziness now.

 

[linney]

You might be able to use this procedure to fix up the situation. It will load a previous Registry if followed correctly.

http://www.digitalwebcast.com/2002/03_mar/tutorials/cw_boot_toot.htm