Windows Troubleshooting Guide I

If for any reason, any of your services fails to start if you tune them? Look at their properties! They will show any other services they depend on! If that does not do it? Microsoft built a VERY smart NT OS! If for instance, you cannot start Workstation or Server services after this to install say, Diskeeper?

(Diskeeper is dependent on 'named pipes' networking, and that is LanManager based I believe (memory is a junkyard, specifics on this may elude me, feel free to correct me), you should use the recovery console and use these commands:

listsvc (to show all the service names)
enable lanmanworkstation SERVICE_AUTO_START
enable lanmanserver SERVICE_AUTO_START

(should this fail, complaining of say, a deleted registry key or marked for deletion? You simply bootup, and remove Client for Microsoft Networks, File and Print Sharing Service, and Tcp/IP... reboot again, reinstall them, reboot... and your system is back to normal! Install ALL your software at this point, If you can? Ghost your machine in basic form, then redo this tuning for speed and security!)

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