Windows 2000 Services issue

[Mr. ThickDick 0]

I was playing around with my services (turning off various ones I don't need) and I got to a point where after rebooting I couldn't open my services properties anymore. I was keeping a log of which ones I disabled in order, but the thing is, now I can't get back in to turn 'em back on. Windows 2000 loads just fine, but I can do almost nothing. It says a service failed to load. I can't even use the event viewer to see which f'ed up. I think it was the RPC call one but I'm not sure. Sorry this isn't very exact...I'm at work and don't have my log file with me right now to tell you which one it was.

[OneHotRS 0]

You have two choices by the looks of it. The easy way and the hard way.

 

1.)Boot to the installation diskette and when the prompt comes up select Repair an existing Win2K installation using the Fast Repair utility. Be advised that you must do this TWICE. The first time generally just checks things out. Also, it may not repair things that were manually disabled.

 

 

2.) Or... you can use the recovery console. The recovery console will allow you to do some minor system functions, one of which is to start and configure services. It takes some reading to get familiar with how it works because it is text based, but I think that this is your best shot.

 

Good Luck man.

 

OneHotRS

[Mr. ThickDick 0]

Thanks much man. I ended up just letting it reinstall while I was gone tonight and everything's back to normal. But your info will help much because I'm ignorant and am still mucking around with my services (can't wait to see what happens when I reboot .