Yesterday when I logged into my PC I got the error message "Failed to connect to a windows service". After spending most of the rest of the day trying to find some solutions I am no further forward. I found two temporary solutions: one is to go on safe mode, open command prompt and type netsh winsock reset , but that stopped working after I reset a few more times. Another possible fix was to press F8 and then start with "last best configuration settings" but that only works sometimes.
What I did then was to completely reinstall windows vista last night thinking that a complete overwrite may resolve the issue. After the boring task of reinstalling and updating all my drivers and windows updates, everything was ok until I got the dreaded message again! Only this time start up is extremely slow and twice I've had the blue screen crash. The first time I didn't see what the error message was as the screen went away too quickly. I'm currently working in safe mode with networking still trying to find a solution. I have read on this site and others about potential fixes but nothing has worked so far for me.
Please help!
PS
I did try the below advice to provide you with some information but I can do everything listed apart from the bit in bold. I'm not sure why I can't save what I've done....sorry in advance.
Boot in safe mode and login under a local adminstrator account.
Right click My Computer and click manage, up will pop up a computer management window, in that window double click Services and Applications and then click Services.
In the list of services scroll down to "System Event notification" and double click it. The properties for this Service will then display.
Make sure the start up type is set to Automatic and make sure the Service status is set to Started.
After you have done this click "Event Viewer" in the far top left of the screen and click "System". This will bring up the logging of events in which have happened on your machine. This can help us determine whats causing the error.
So click "Action" on the top toolbar and click "Save log files as," save it somewhere and then upload it in your next post. Do not copy and paste it.
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