Services on W2K going Crazy!!

[Jeff1242]

Help!!

We have a new installation of Windows 2000 Server ( Small Business Edition ) at our clients site. Something is wrong with the services running on the server. If I try to Start or Stop any service, it times out with error 1053 and the service status is left Starting or Stopping. I have left it several hours and it never completes the start or stop. My Computer Management window also locks up if I try to open my services from there - I ended up having to load MMC and open the Services by itself. Very strange. None of this is logged in the event logs.

I have rebooted several times since this problem started. The server is running SP4 and I have Norton installed and it says I'm virus free. Any ideas for me? I about ready to head over there and reinstall the OS...

Thanks!

 

[karmic]

Which services are giving you problems? Have you tried starting the service as the administrator instead of system?

You may be dealing with conflicting services... Theres a nice explanation of individual services here.

http://www.blackviper.com/WIN2K/servicecfg.htm

~ K.I.S.S - Don't make it any more complex than it has to be ~

 

[Jeff1242]

We first found this problem with the Backup Exec Services (Added when you install Veritas Backup Exec). We had a problem in the software and tried stopping and restarting the services ( we have done that before to correct minor problems ) and found that those services got stuck while trying to stop. It doesn't seem to matter how its trying to log in ( either an Administrator user or local system account ), it will not allow me to start or stop it. So far, this has been every service that I have tried, but I quit trying when I ran out of non-important services The Netmeeting Remove Desktop Sharing service has been trying to Stop for about a day and a half now, for instance.