Re: Enabling security center on domain XP SP2 Workstations

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 09/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 06:31:05 -0700

I am seeing this problem. Two notes of interest.

1. I do not think my install completed successfully
   (I was installing from the CD). After the restart,
   the system froze for a very long period. I finally
   gave up and power cycled and it (seemingly) came
   up ok. It was only after playing for a while that
   I noticed Security Center was not working. I tried
   the suggestions from this thread without success.

2. When I attempt to start SC from services.msc, it
   fails with a message about not being able to access
   a module (I do not have the system in front of me,
   so I cannot quote the exact error message). I think
   the error code was #126.

3. RPC looked ok. I changed the logon as suggested
   but that did not solve the problem.
>-----Original Message-----
>
>
>"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:
>
>> dmkolb wrote:
>>
>> > Torgeir Bakken wrote:
>> >
>> >> 1)
>> >> How do you try to start the Security Center?
>> >> What messages do you get then (if any)?
>> >
>> > I attempt to start it from either
Start/Programs/Accesories or from
>> > the Control Panel and I get "The Security Service is
unavailable
>> > because the service isn't started or was stopped"
>> >
>> >> 2)
>> >> Check the service that it is enabled:
>> >>
>> >> Start/Run --> services.msc
>> >>
>> >> Find "Security Center" in the list and double click
on it.
>> >>
>> >> If the Startup type is not set to Automatic, change
it to Automatic.
>> >>
>> >> Can you start/stop the service with the Start/Stop
buttons?
>> >>
>> >> Go into the Dependencies tab and check that
everything looks good
>> >> there. SC is dependent on that the "Remote Procedure
Call" (RPC)
>> >> and "Windows Management Instrumentation" (WMI)
services are
>> >> running. Check the status of those services.
>> >
>> > I tried this also and heres what I get:
>> > Could not start Security Center on Local Computer.
>> > Error 1068: The dependency Service or group failed to
start.
>> >
>> > RPC does start; WMI gives same as above.
>> > when I try to open depencies I get Error Win32:
>> > The dependency service or group failed to start!
>> > Argh!
>> Hi
>>
>> See if the tip from Karl B/Melvin Salazar works for you:
>>
>> <quote>
>>
>> From: "Karl B" <karl@gfield.org.uk>
>> Subject: Possible solution to the windows update
0x800A0046 problem
>> Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 12:03:39 +0100
>> Newsgroups: microsoft.private.xpsp2.general
>>
>> Firstly, I take no credit for this I was going though
the network
>> newsgroup because my dialup network settings had
vanished and a guy
>> named Melvin Salazar suggested the following which WORKED!
>>
>> 'You can also try doing the following, it worked for me:
>>
>> Go to Services under the Administrative Tools folder.
>>
>> Notice that the logon account is set to a NT/User
account under the RPC
>> (remote procedure call) service. Change it to Local
System account,
>> under the Logon tab, and restart the computer. Many of
these services
>> depend on the RPC, but there was an error when it came
to configuring
>> this paticular service.'
>>
>> Now once I made these changes I was able to get my
network icons back
>> as well as use Windows Update.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Karl
>>
>> </quote>
>>
>>
>> --
>> torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
>> Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
>> the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx
>
>
>Nope didn't work either. Thanks for bearing with me
thought. anybody else go
>this problem?
>>
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