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Windows 2000 - Re-enabling Remote Procedure Calls?

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  • 10-11-2008 10:30pm
    #1
    ouch
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭


    I've 'inherited' a PC with Windows 2000 on it where everything in the services menu is disabled.

    No option comes up to set any of the services to manual or automatic, and when i close the services menu i get a message asking saying
    "Close all property pages before closing services"

    Apparently this problem is caused by remote procedure calls being disabled.

    Can anyone give me step by step info on how to restart the service through regedit?

    Thanks


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    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,118 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    ouch wrote: »
    I've 'inherited' a PC with Windows 2000 on it where everything in the services menu is disabled.

    No option comes up to set any of the services to manual or automatic, and when i close the services menu i get a message asking saying
    "Close all property pages before closing services"

    Apparently this problem is caused by remote procedure calls being disabled.

    Can anyone give me step by step info on how to restart the service through regedit?

    Thanks

    Do you have admin privileges?


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    #3
    ouch
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭ouch


    ^ Yes, I do.


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    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,118 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    ouch wrote: »
    ^ Yes, I do.

    If you can't reenable it in the services windows, you can check it's status in the registry.

    Under
    - HKey_local_machine
    - System
    - Current control set
    - Services
    - RpcSs

    There'll be a value called start, it should be set to 2 for automatic start, and 4 if it's disabled.


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    #5
    ouch
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭ouch


    I've found the right key.... but there's nothing there marked "start" at all.

    Can i create it?, and if so, should it be a key, a string value, a binary value, or a DWORD Value?

    Thanks for your help so far.


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    #6
    ouch
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭ouch


    Fixed it. Thanks for your patience.


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