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Author Topic: Unable to change startup type !!!  (Read 563 times)

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Offline moses_x

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Unable to change startup type !!!
« on: November 09, 2009, 03:22:23 AM »
Dear friends, i hope i can find some help here.  So, her comes the problem: if i try to disable a service from manual or automatic, no problems, but when i try to go from disable to manual or automatic, i receive a message error like path not found.
But if a go to registry, i can change the startup type with no problems and it works, but for some reason, after the change (Man/Auto to Dis then change from dis to Man/Auto on registry)when i try to change from manual or automatic to disable like before, now i?ve got the same error. Any idea what is going wrong ?

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Re: Unable to change startup type !!!
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2009, 04:43:25 AM »
If you change services manually in the registry, you should reboot. This could be the issue.

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Re: Unable to change startup type !!!
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2009, 04:55:44 AM »
It should also be worth noting that several services can not be modified. Which services are giving you trouble? All of them?

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Re: Unable to change startup type !!!
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2009, 05:06:00 AM »
If you change services manually in the registry, you should reboot. This could be the issue.
Here is another user with same problem as me:
http://www.sevenforums.com/software/3267-windows-error-reporting-pt-2-a.html
unfortunately with no fix.

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Re: Unable to change startup type !!!
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2009, 07:30:41 AM »
It should also be worth noting that several services can not be modified. Which services are giving you trouble? All of them?
Not all. For example, security center is disable and can be enable in GUI without problems. But NETBIOS was disable for me and i can only enable it by registry. In GUI i got the message: The system cannot find the path specified.

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Re: Unable to change startup type !!!
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2009, 02:28:42 AM »
Just found the problem and the solution !!! :)
CCleaner is the culprit. When you check Advanced Windows files/IIS Log Files, CCleaner clean inside this folder: C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles. Unfortunately, inside this folder there is another folder called Scm, which inlike other windows versions (XP doesn?t have it; Vista 32 have it with SCM.EVM file that can?t be deleted), is empty on 7. So CCleaner understand that this folder can be deleted, and the problem with services starts to occurs. Recreating this folder, all problems go away.

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Re: Unable to change startup type !!!
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2009, 02:39:26 AM »
Good to hear! Glad you are up and running again and thanks for reporting back!

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Re: Unable to change startup type !!!
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2009, 03:49:23 AM »
The problem was shared with CC community
http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=25240