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security center won't start
i recently installed sp2 and could not restat system afterwards, so i
installed a copy of xp sp2 that was downloaded from my school on the msdn website, still would not boot, so i started from cd and went backwards to xp sp1 system boots and runs normal i went to update and was able to update windows installer 3.1 and update for bits 2.0. but i cannot download any more updates, they all come as 0 kb's, with a message that says Successful: 0 Failed: 58 Remaining: 0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Successful Updates -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Failed Updates For help installing an update successfully, see the solution under each problem description. Problem: End User License Agreement (EULA) Not Accepted Solution: Check for updates again and wait while you install updates. You will be asked to accept the EULA before any updates with a EULA can be installed. Problem: Not Enough Disk Space Solution: To make more space available, run the Disk Cleanup tool or uninstall any programs that you don’t use. For directions, see Help and Support on your computer. Problem: Automatic Updates is currently installing updates Solution: Please wait until Automatic Updates is complete and then check your update history. At that time, if the update has failed to install, you can try installing it from the website. Note: To view Automatic Updates progress, click the updating icon in your System Tray. Problem: Please check your update history for a description. Problem: A problem on your computer is preventing updates from being downloaded or installed Solution: To fix the problem, try installing the updates again. If that doesn't work, use the Troubleshooter to try solve the problem. Microsoft Windows XP Security Update for Windows XP (KB873339) ................................................ i left out all but 1st and last update, there 58 of them total Security Update for Windows XP (KB890046) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remaining High-Priority Updates Your computer might be at risk until you install all high-priority updates. These updates help protect against security threats and performance problems. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To review all updates you’ve installed from this website or by turning on automatic updating on your computer, see your update history. when i start checking things out i find that security center is not running i have read and tried running services.msc i get message : could not start security center on local machine. error 1083: the executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service. security center is set on: automatic this the path to the executable: C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs should i just reinstall windows or wipe the drive and start over? this is not my primary drive on the system i also run x64 on this rig, i just use this hdd for gaming i just hate tiny little problems that ----------------AGRIVATE ME! thanx for any help you can give to help me fix this - Rick |
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security center won't start
Do you run any Norton AV or Internet Security software? I'm betting you do.
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On Aug 1, 10:02 am, "Maincat" wrote:
Do you run any Norton AV or Internet Security software? I'm betting you do. Let us know. I'm not the original poster but I have the same problem on one XP SP2 machine- and yes, it started after installing NAV2007. For one thing, I can't restart the security center service through the 'services' panel. I've noticed that the path name is completely screwed up to look like this: \SystemRoot\C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs I've installed NAV2007 on other similar computers that were configured to *not* alert to Windows updates whereas the one I'm on was so configured. I suspect that has something to do with why this particular machine is fubared and I'm able to at least manually start the security center on the other ones. Spybot will even do the repair. What ticks me off is that Norton disables the security center on each restart - unlike NAV2006 where at least I was able to disable the Norton protection center and permanently set the Windows security center to 'automatic'. I keep hoping Microsoft releases a fix at some point to protect its security center from the malware-like behaviour of Norton. /rant, /hunter |
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"swmpthng" wrote: i recently installed sp2 and could not restat system afterwards, so i installed a copy of xp sp2 that was downloaded from my school on the msdn website, still would not boot, so i started from cd and went backwards to xp sp1 system boots and runs normal i went to update and was able to update windows installer 3.1 and update for bits 2.0. but i cannot download any more updates, they all come as 0 kb's, with a message that says Successful: 0 Failed: 58 Remaining: 0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Successful Updates -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Failed Updates For help installing an update successfully, see the solution under each problem description. Problem: End User License Agreement (EULA) Not Accepted Solution: Check for updates again and wait while you install updates. You will be asked to accept the EULA before any updates with a EULA can be installed. Problem: Not Enough Disk Space Solution: To make more space available, run the Disk Cleanup tool or uninstall any programs that you don’t use. For directions, see Help and Support on your computer. Problem: Automatic Updates is currently installing updates Solution: Please wait until Automatic Updates is complete and then check your update history. At that time, if the update has failed to install, you can try installing it from the website. Note: To view Automatic Updates progress, click the updating icon in your System Tray. Problem: Please check your update history for a description. Problem: A problem on your computer is preventing updates from being downloaded or installed Solution: To fix the problem, try installing the updates again. If that doesn't work, use the Troubleshooter to try solve the problem. Microsoft Windows XP Security Update for Windows XP (KB873339) ............................................... i left out all but 1st and last update, there 58 of them total Security Update for Windows XP (KB890046) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remaining High-Priority Updates Your computer might be at risk until you install all high-priority updates. These updates help protect against security threats and performance problems. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To review all updates you’ve installed from this website or by turning on automatic updating on your computer, see your update history. when i start checking things out i find that security center is not running i have read and tried running services.msc i get message : could not start security center on local machine. error 1083: the executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service. security center is set on: automatic this the path to the executable: C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs should i just reinstall windows or wipe the drive and start over? this is not my primary drive on the system i also run x64 on this rig, i just use this hdd for gaming i just hate tiny little problems that ----------------AGRIVATE ME! thanx for any help you can give to help me fix this - Rick i'm also posting about this at overclocker.com security forum. |
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" wrote: On Aug 1, 10:02 am, "Maincat" wrote: Do you run any Norton AV or Internet Security software? I'm betting you do. Let us know. I'm not the original poster but I have the same problem on one XP SP2 machine- and yes, it started after installing NAV2007. For one thing, I can't restart the security center service through the 'services' panel. I've noticed that the path name is completely screwed up to look like this: \SystemRoot\C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs I've installed NAV2007 on other similar computers that were configured to *not* alert to Windows updates whereas the one I'm on was so configured. I suspect that has something to do with why this particular machine is fubared and I'm able to at least manually start the security center on the other ones. Spybot will even do the repair. What ticks me off is that Norton disables the security center on each restart - unlike NAV2006 where at least I was able to disable the Norton protection center and permanently set the Windows security center to 'automatic'. I keep hoping Microsoft releases a fix at some point to protect its security center from the malware-like behaviour of Norton. /rant, /hunter i have been using avast4home now for 3 or 4 yearswithout a glitch and it has caught things that norton and mc afee did not and is much easier to use, security center comes up on my other machine and on the machine in question on the other hdd which runs winxp x64, i have another rig that runs just fine except i cannot ping out to any website, i also for about 2-3 weeks have not been able to use my router (which is a pain in the !@#$%) and my router software and my comcast isp software will not recognize that i have an internet connectionbut yet i can upload and download any thing just as if i have no problem. i cannot manually start security center using services.msc (as previously stated) command, is there another way? |
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wrote in message oups.com... On Aug 1, 10:02 am, "Maincat" wrote: Do you run any Norton AV or Internet Security software? I'm betting you do. Let us know. I'm not the original poster but I have the same problem on one XP SP2 machine- and yes, it started after installing NAV2007. For one thing, I can't restart the security center service through the 'services' panel. I've noticed that the path name is completely screwed up to look like this: \SystemRoot\C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs I've installed NAV2007 on other similar computers that were configured to *not* alert to Windows updates whereas the one I'm on was so configured. I suspect that has something to do with why this particular machine is fubared and I'm able to at least manually start the security center on the other ones. Spybot will even do the repair. What ticks me off is that Norton disables the security center on each restart - unlike NAV2006 where at least I was able to disable the Norton protection center and permanently set the Windows security center to 'automatic'. I keep hoping Microsoft releases a fix at some point to protect its security center from the malware-like behaviour of Norton. /rant, /hunter I doubt they will, but you can hope. The only answer I've used myself was to totally get rid of Norton and use another solution, like F-Secure at www.f-secure.com There are many other solutions (some free) which are just as good. -- Steve CompTIA A+, Network+, MCP, MCDST http://www.milward.org.uk http://blog.milward.org.uk/blog |
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On Aug 2, 6:45 am, "Maincat" wrote:
wrote in message oups.com... On Aug 1, 10:02 am, "Maincat" wrote: Do you run any Norton AV or Internet Security software? I'm betting you do. Let us know. I'm not the original poster but I have the same problem on one XP SP2 machine- and yes, it started after installing NAV2007. For one thing, I can't restart the security center service through the 'services' panel. I've noticed that the path name is completely screwed up to look like this: \SystemRoot\C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs I've installed NAV2007 on other similar computers that were configured to *not* alert to Windows updates whereas the one I'm on was so configured. I suspect that has something to do with why this particular machine is fubared and I'm able to at least manually start the security center on the other ones. Spybot will even do the repair. What ticks me off is that Norton disables the security center on each restart - unlike NAV2006 where at least I was able to disable the Norton protection center and permanently set the Windows security center to 'automatic'. I keep hoping Microsoft releases a fix at some point to protect its security center from the malware-like behaviour of Norton. /rant, /hunter I doubt they will, but you can hope. The only answer I've used myself was to totally get rid of Norton and use another solution, like F-Secure atwww.f-secure.com There are many other solutions (some free) which are just as good. -- Steve CompTIA A+, Network+, MCP, MCDSThttp://www.milward.org.ukhttp://blog.milward.org.uk/blog- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Do you think that removing Norton would fix that corrupted file pathway? I'm dubious about that happening but I'm not really all that computer savvy and am probably wrong.... /hunter |
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wrote in message ups.com... On Aug 2, 6:45 am, "Maincat" wrote: wrote in message oups.com... On Aug 1, 10:02 am, "Maincat" wrote: Do you run any Norton AV or Internet Security software? I'm betting you do. Let us know. I'm not the original poster but I have the same problem on one XP SP2 machine- and yes, it started after installing NAV2007. For one thing, I can't restart the security center service through the 'services' panel. I've noticed that the path name is completely screwed up to look like this: \SystemRoot\C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs I've installed NAV2007 on other similar computers that were configured to *not* alert to Windows updates whereas the one I'm on was so configured. I suspect that has something to do with why this particular machine is fubared and I'm able to at least manually start the security center on the other ones. Spybot will even do the repair. What ticks me off is that Norton disables the security center on each restart - unlike NAV2006 where at least I was able to disable the Norton protection center and permanently set the Windows security center to 'automatic'. I keep hoping Microsoft releases a fix at some point to protect its security center from the malware-like behaviour of Norton. /rant, /hunter I doubt they will, but you can hope. The only answer I've used myself was to totally get rid of Norton and use another solution, like F-Secure atwww.f-secure.com There are many other solutions (some free) which are just as good. -- Steve CompTIA A+, Network+, MCP, MCDSThttp://www.milward.org.ukhttp://blog.milward.org.uk/blog- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Do you think that removing Norton would fix that corrupted file pathway? I'm dubious about that happening but I'm not really all that computer savvy and am probably wrong.... /hunter My advice would be to remove Norton. If you still can't open Security Centre, you can re-install Norton. I'm not sure what you mean by corrupted file pathway. The pathway should read C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs |
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"swmpthng" wrote: i recently installed sp2 and could not restat system afterwards, so i installed a copy of xp sp2 that was downloaded from my school on the msdn website, still would not boot, so i started from cd and went backwards to xp sp1 system boots and runs normal i went to update and was able to update windows installer 3.1 and update for bits 2.0. but i cannot download any more updates, they all come as 0 kb's, with a message that says Successful: 0 Failed: 58 Remaining: 0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Successful Updates -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Failed Updates For help installing an update successfully, see the solution under each problem description. Problem: End User License Agreement (EULA) Not Accepted Solution: Check for updates again and wait while you install updates. You will be asked to accept the EULA before any updates with a EULA can be installed. Problem: Not Enough Disk Space Solution: To make more space available, run the Disk Cleanup tool or uninstall any programs that you don’t use. For directions, see Help and Support on your computer. Problem: Automatic Updates is currently installing updates Solution: Please wait until Automatic Updates is complete and then check your update history. At that time, if the update has failed to install, you can try installing it from the website. Note: To view Automatic Updates progress, click the updating icon in your System Tray. Problem: Please check your update history for a description. Problem: A problem on your computer is preventing updates from being downloaded or installed Solution: To fix the problem, try installing the updates again. If that doesn't work, use the Troubleshooter to try solve the problem. Microsoft Windows XP Security Update for Windows XP (KB873339) ............................................... i left out all but 1st and last update, there 58 of them total Security Update for Windows XP (KB890046) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remaining High-Priority Updates Your computer might be at risk until you install all high-priority updates. These updates help protect against security threats and performance problems. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To review all updates you’ve installed from this website or by turning on automatic updating on your computer, see your update history. when i start checking things out i find that security center is not running i have read and tried running services.msc i get message : could not start security center on local machine. error 1083: the executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service. security center is set on: automatic this the path to the executable: C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs should i just reinstall windows or wipe the drive and start over? this is not my primary drive on the system i also run x64 on this rig, i just use this hdd for gaming i just hate tiny little problems that ----------------AGRIVATE ME! thanx for any help you can give to help me fix this - Rick |
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On Aug 2, 10:05 am, "Maincat" wrote:
wrote in message stuff snipped for brevity's sake My advice would be to remove Norton. If you still can't open Security Centre, you can re-install Norton. I'm not sure what you mean by corrupted file pathway. The pathway should read C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Yes, the pathway *should* say that but mine says: \SystemRoot\C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs It has that \SystemRoot\ bit and when I do try to start the security center, I get: Error 123: The filename, directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect. So I'm not sure uninstalling Norton will fix that issue. /hunter |
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security center is set on: automatic - set to manual, start it this the path to the executable: C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs - SystemRoot missing \SystemRoot\C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs - remove c:\windows\ from string -- barlim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ barlim's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/barlim.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-security/793629.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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