SP2

[Garry Watts]

Since installing SP2 on his PC my son-in-law has experienced problems with
the settings of services. Some of these have changed. He sets them to run
automatically but on reboot they revert back. Any ideas on how he can
overcome this?

TIA

Gaz

[Malke]

Garry Watts wrote:

> Since installing SP2 on his PC my son-in-law has experienced problems
> with
> the settings of services. Some of these have changed. He sets them
> to run
> automatically but on reboot they revert back. Any ideas on how he can
> overcome this?

Which services?

Malke
--
MS-MVP Windows User/Shell
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic"

[Garry Watts]

The ones that come to mind amongst other were antivirus, firewall and
spooling but the are others.

TIA

Gaz

"Malke" > wrote in message
...
> Garry Watts wrote:
>
>> Since installing SP2 on his PC my son-in-law has experienced problems
>> with
>> the settings of services. Some of these have changed. He sets them
>> to run
>> automatically but on reboot they revert back. Any ideas on how he can
>> overcome this?
>
> Which services?
>
> Malke
> --
> MS-MVP Windows User/Shell
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic"

[Garry Watts]

The ones that come to mind amongst other were Automatic Updates, AVG7 Update
Service, Error Reporting Service, IPSEC Services, Protected Storage,
Security Accounts Manager, Security Center, System Restore Service, TCP/IP
NetBIOS Helper, Windows Audio, Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing
(ICS), Wireless Zero Configuration and some others - 19 in total.

TIA

Gaz

[Malke]

Garry Watts wrote:

>
> The ones that come to mind amongst other were Automatic Updates, AVG7
> Update Service, Error Reporting Service, IPSEC Services, Protected
> Storage, Security Accounts Manager, Security Center, System Restore
> Service, TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper, Windows Audio, Windows
> Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS), Wireless Zero
> Configuration and some others - 19 in total.
>
> TIA
>
> Gaz

There is no way all these services and programs should fail after
installing SP2 on a clean, well-functioning machine. We don't have any
information about your son's computer hardware, software, or whether it
was 100% spyware and virus-free, if he got any error messages, or the
like. He should take the computer to a local professional (not a
BestBuy or CompUSA type of store) rather than try and troubleshoot the
machine third-hand via you posting bits of information about his
computer in a newsgroup. In the meantime, here are links for
troubleshooting SP2 which you can pass on to him:

Troubleshooting SP2 for Windows XP
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSP2.htm and
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSP2.htm#General

http://forum.aumha.org/index.php - See SP2 forums

SP2 Support Center
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?&pr=windowsxpsp2

Good luck,

Malke
--
MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"

[Garry Watts]

> There is no way all these services and programs should fail after
> installing SP2 on a clean, well-functioning machine. We don't have any
> information about your son's computer hardware, software, or whether it
> was 100% spyware and virus-free, if he got any error messages, or the
> like. He should take the computer to a local professional (not a
> BestBuy or CompUSA type of store) rather than try and troubleshoot the
> machine third-hand via you posting bits of information about his
> computer in a newsgroup. In the meantime, here are links for
> troubleshooting SP2 which you can pass on to him:
>
> Troubleshooting SP2 for Windows XP
> http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSP2.htm and
> http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSP2.htm#General
>
> http://forum.aumha.org/index.php - See SP2 forums
>
> SP2 Support Center
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?&pr=windowsxpsp2
>
> Good luck,
>
> Malke
Thanks

He uses Sygate Personal Firewall, AVG Pro 7 and Ad-aware 6. No virus where
detected. What I fail to understand is why the settings aren't being saved
when he changes them via services.msc etc. Could this be some sort of
permissions thing?

Gaz