Restore services in Windows 2000

[Creeker]

I did a stupid thing and disabled some services in Windows 2000 (trying to speed up startup). The services are Messenger, Remote Registry, Server. Now things aren't working correctly and I find I cannot un-disable them. I also cannot add/remove programs, dial up, copy/paste, etc. When I try to reinstall Windows 2000, I get error. I tried a clean install with the CD and it gave me an error.

Does anyone have any suggestion?

 

[tsuji]

Check out sc.exe utility.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=251192

 

[wolluf]

You mean if you run services.msc, you cannot start the services from there, nor set them to autiomatic so they will start next time windows does?

And the clean install - if it really was a clean install (ie, you wiped the drive first), what error did it give (as that points to a likely hardware problem - previous actions regarding services will NOT affect a clean install).

 

[TidyTrax]

You might be able to just use the registry to start the services again > Regedit drill down to HKLM\system\currentcontrolset\services - from there you should be able to locate the services you have disabled. Change the start value as appropriate to

2 Automatic.
3 Manual.
4 Disable.

Then reboot and you should be golden