Hello,
I've recently noticed that I'm unable to access my Windows Security Service
and the Windows Firewall ICS. I first noticed this right after an
interruption in my F-secure Anti-Virus service. Because of a date
discrepency in Windows ( after having a new motherboard installed into my
Dell Optiplex GX270), my F-secure software thought that my subscription had
expired when I corrected the date and time function, so it (F-secure) quit
running temporarily. I don't know if the two are related, but I thought I
should mention that. I've got that straightened out, but now I've got the
problem with not being able to start certain services ( my Executive
Diskeeper as well, although that's been going on for a while). When I go
into "Services" and try to start the Win Seurity Center service I get, "Could
not start the Security Center service on Local Computer. Error 1068: The
dependency service group failed to start. When I go into "Properties/
Dependencies" I get, "Win 32: The dependency service does not exist or has
been marked for deletion". I get the same thing for the Windows Firewall/ICS
service. When I try to start the Diskeeper Service I just get, "Error 1062:
The service has not been started", and then the same "...depen serv not exist
or marked..." I also went into "Group Policy/Computer Config/Admin
Templates/Windows Components/Security Center" and enabled the Security Center
from there (was not configured), but this didn't fix it either. Then, I went
to the Event Viewer to see if I could find anything and it was totally blank.
I got a message saying, "unable to complete the operation on 'system'. The
interface is unknown". I got the same under "application" and "security" as
well. Isn't Event Viewer listed with the other services also? If it is I
couldn't even find that one in the list of services to try and turn it on.
I would greatly appreciate any suggestions concerning the above. You can
probably tell that I don't know much about this (services, dependencies,
etc.). My knowledge is fairly limited. What I do know I just learned
recently trying to fix the problem. I'm sorry if I'm missing something
obvious.
Thanks
P.S
My OS is Windows XP Pro service pack 2
