Win2000pro - preparing network connections hangs - services.exe

squeaky

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

In the words of Microsith's user support system: "Format & Reinstall."

Thanks for that, but right now I've got nothing to reinstall with!



I assume the link would have been interesting if it had worked.

-TangleFoot-

How about Xubuntu then?

-TangleFoot-

One of the numerous disadvantages of snail-mail, alas.

squeaky

slushpuppy wrote: »

Im confused, I thought you bought it?

Bought it, yes.

Had it delivered... er nope! I only ordered it this afternoon.

squeaky

slushpuppy wrote: »

Just wait until it arrives if you wish to pre-format download UBCD and use Dban or similar.

So far I've tried erm... must be over 20 downloads from the available mirror sites for UBCD to no avail. Can you by any chance remember which one you used?

squeaky

The final part of the puzzle....

Since I now have a network I made some tweaks on the "good" laptop and, when rebooting as required I saw two message screens flash up - and I MEAN "flash".

Reminded me of the good old days of MSDOS. I'm pretty sure my eyes caught "Preparing network connections" and "something Security Settings".

A second immediate reboot and I didn't see them at all.

So...

How about on the "hanging" laptop that either the "Run once" key is missing? Or not even being created? Or not updating its d-word to say that it has run?

AND... often when I have made a change to the "hanging" beastie network stuff the system locks up for about a minute or so. Task manager tells me that the process "services.exe" is hogging 99% of CPU time.

So... much closer to "what"... all I need now is a "how"

Any ideas anyone, please?

-TangleFoot-

I'm all out of ideas at this point. What did you think of my earlier suggestion?

[Deleted User]

What Service Pack do you have installed?

The latest one to be released was SP4.

SP2 should have corrected this issue by updating Lsasrv.dll with the following attributes:

Date Time Version Size File name

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6/22/2000 9:30 5.0.2195.2096 492,816 Lsasrv.dll

squeaky

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

I'm all out of ideas at this point. What did you think of my earlier suggestion?

Not an awful lot. This laptop will be going to a non techy point and shoot type user who has only ever seen windows.

Sorry.

squeaky

anewhope wrote: »

What Service Pack do you have installed?

The latest one to be released was SP4.

SP2 should have corrected this issue by updating Lsasrv.dll with the following attributes:

The "good one" is at SP4 but the dodgy one is only at SP3 and, despite it being switched on is clearly not using automatic updates, and I run into all sorts of weird and wonderful problems if I try to use the Microsoft Update Service directly.

I'm fairly convinced that some dot sys or dot dll is missing or corrupted and it's in the area of networking. DNS redirects or something like that. But I can't prove it and certainly don't know enough to recognise an incorrect setting even supposing I was looking in the right places. It seems to affect setting up and changing settings of anything to do with networks and, as I say, hangs with "sevices.exe" hogging processor time at 99%



Edit: Hmmm... presumably if I knew what KBnnnnnn's to look for I could download and save them on the good laptop - then shift them onto the dodgy one and run them in sequence there....?

I wonder if a google search for "Please tell me all the KB numbers which have been issued for Windows 2000 Professional since SP3" will work...?