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Automatic Windows Services not Starting

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by bp7226

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My client has Windows XP Home on a Gateway desktop that "suddenly" will not start automatic windows services (key among them are: Network, Print and Audio services.) System also "suddenly started" booting extremely slow, on the order of minutes, not seconds. After the system finally gets to a usable desktop, one can start the automatic services manually without any problems.

The errant services show "automatic" and nothing appears amiss, but something obviously is wrong. Restore points do not work. Has anyone else ever experienced this problem? Any ideas what may have caused it? Anyone know a solution for repair besides fdisk, reformat and reinstall?

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by bp7226

I ran several anti-spyware and anti-virus products against the hard drive; turned off the System Restore to clear malware from there; emptied the prefetch folder; found one program from Roxio that would not run and deleted it and all references to it from the registry and ran a scandisk and a defrag. Then when I restarted the system after all this was completed, it booted in under 30 seconds and had no errors and all the automatic services started as they are supposed to. Interesting problem, THANKS for your help and the thought starters!

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