this is years and years later, but wow. what a great response. this is exactly the fix to a problem i experienced on my win7pro x64 machine. i uninstalled citrix xendesktop which is highly invasive and gets into EVERYTHING. when i removed it, it removed a service that it had associated with the workstation service. but this registry key still pointed to that old service, and obviously prevented workstation from starting.

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