I've had a problem on my laptop: "svchost.exe" was consuming in the
last 4 days together with "system" nearly 100% of the cpu time, making
it impossible to work. I started to shutdown different services,
however the RAS service was not responding for shutdowns. So I
disabled all services not being able to shutdown and rebooted. The cpu
consumption is normal now, but I am not able to reenable the plug &
play service, or any service again. Messages like (translated from
german):

Configuration Manager: The plug && play service is not available

Prevent any service from configured. This is even true for the plug &
play service itself.

I would appreciate if somebody could give me a hint how to enable p&p
again. Is there a registry key or something to make this service work
again?

Thank you very much

Daniel Frey

Easiest to restore the registry from the backup you made before the changes.

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"Daniel" wrote:
| I've had a problem on my laptop: "svchost.exe" was consuming in the
| last 4 days together with "system" nearly 100% of the cpu time, making
| it impossible to work. I started to shutdown different services,
| however the RAS service was not responding for shutdowns. So I
| disabled all services not being able to shutdown and rebooted. The cpu
| consumption is normal now, but I am not able to reenable the plug &
| play service, or any service again. Messages like (translated from
| german):
|
| Configuration Manager: The plug && play service is not available
|
| Prevent any service from configured. This is even true for the plug &
| play service itself.
|
| I would appreciate if somebody could give me a hint how to enable p&p
| again. Is there a registry key or something to make this service work
| again?
|
| Thank you very much
|
| Daniel Frey

HKLM\SYSTEM\CCS\Services\PlugPlay, dword value Start, data 0x2.

Any ideas why svchost.exe was consuming 100% of CPU? That would be the
problem I would want to solve first. Searching the KB on this yields 25 hits
<http://support.microsoft.com/search/...e&Catalog=LCID
%3D1033%26CDID%3DEN-US-KB%26PRODLISTSRC%3DON&Product=&KeywordType=ALL&Tit les
=false&numDays=&maxResults=25&Queryl=svchost.exe+c pu&Query=svchost.exe+cpu&Q
uerySource=gsfxSearchRt_Query&srchExtraQry=Windows +2000>.

The two I like most are Performance May Be Slow on Computer Running Windows
2000 Professional and WinGate
<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;285042>, and
Services.exe process uses 100 percent of the CPU utilization when a
dependent service exits prematurely on a Windows 2000-based computer
<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;815349>
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