My Vista Business has been humming along perfectly now for months Then,
today, late in the afternoon, for no obvious reason... I completely lost my
network connections. Both my wired and wireless. I rebooted and logged in a
couple times, and still it is gone. I can login to the local machine, but
still no connection, and whe I attempt to change settings in the IE 7 network
preferences, it won't even allow me to hit the 'Ok' button to finalize the
setting changes, it make the animation as if I push it, but no settings save.

So, I went into my Services list and almost all of my networking services
are not 'started' and when I attempt to start them, I get errors... I've
searched around here and Technet, etc, etc... but all of the other folks who
have seemed to have something *similar* happen... aren't really the same
problems. I've attempted some of the 'fixes' in those articles and posts, but
no result.

Why would this happen? Especially the strange in-ability to even set the IE
7 Net Work settings, I have to assume that is the 'root' of my issue. But, I
can't find anyone who seems to have this same problem.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Derek C.

Post some errors from the Event Viewer may help.

--
Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
http://www.HowToNetworking.com


"dcolanduno" wrote in message
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My Vista Business has been humming along perfectly now for months Then,
today, late in the afternoon, for no obvious reason... I completely lost
my
network connections. Both my wired and wireless. I rebooted and logged in
a
couple times, and still it is gone. I can login to the local machine, but
still no connection, and whe I attempt to change settings in the IE 7
network
preferences, it won't even allow me to hit the 'Ok' button to finalize the
setting changes, it make the animation as if I push it, but no settings
save.

So, I went into my Services list and almost all of my networking services
are not 'started' and when I attempt to start them, I get errors... I've
searched around here and Technet, etc, etc... but all of the other folks
who
have seemed to have something *similar* happen... aren't really the same
problems. I've attempted some of the 'fixes' in those articles and posts,
but
no result.

Why would this happen? Especially the strange in-ability to even set the
IE
7 Net Work settings, I have to assume that is the 'root' of my issue. But,
I
can't find anyone who seems to have this same problem.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Derek C.

I wish I could, but even the Event Viewer won't come up for me. It seems that
suddenly my whole install is worthless. I really don't want to go back to XP,
but this might force me to do it, I can't afford this much downtime just
poking around looking for some mystery reason for my whole OS to just
suddenly go 'boom'. sigh

When I try to look at the Event Log and Manager I get:

"Event Log service is unavailable. Verify that the service is running."

So I go into the 'Services' menu to see if I can just start that service...
then I get this annoying error:

"Windows could not start the Windows Event Log service on Local Computer.
Error 1747: The authentation service is unknown."

Any ideas?

"Robert L. (MS-MVP)" wrote

Post some errors from the Event Viewer may help.

--
Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
http://www.HowToNetworking.com


"dcolanduno" wrote in message
news
My Vista Business has been humming along perfectly now for months Then,
today, late in the afternoon, for no obvious reason... I completely lost
my
network connections. Both my wired and wireless. I rebooted and logged in
a
couple times, and still it is gone. I can login to the local machine, but
still no connection, and whe I attempt to change settings in the IE 7
network
preferences, it won't even allow me to hit the 'Ok' button to finalize the
setting changes, it make the animation as if I push it, but no settings
save.

So, I went into my Services list and almost all of my networking services
are not 'started' and when I attempt to start them, I get errors... I've
searched around here and Technet, etc, etc... but all of the other folks
who
have seemed to have something *similar* happen... aren't really the same
problems. I've attempted some of the 'fixes' in those articles and posts,
but
no result.

Why would this happen? Especially the strange in-ability to even set the
IE
7 Net Work settings, I have to assume that is the 'root' of my issue. But,
I
can't find anyone who seems to have this same problem.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Derek C.

Same problem. Can't logon any users who aren't in the administrator's group,
as well. All seem to share a dependency to the System Event Notification
Service not starting.

In the services view this services shows as 'starting' , but it never does.
I've attempted to halt it and manually start the service, to no avail.

I've un-installed all Windows and Office updates automatically installed
without any further success.

I've run 'sfc /scannow' from the command prompt, as suggested in other forum
replies.

This happened once before to this PC in November or early December 2007, I
recovered to an earlier recovery point and all worked again; until the next
batch of Auto Updates installed themselves.

I'd really like to fix this before blowing the Vista Business away and
loading XP. Makes the purchase of Office 2007 a very silly option, when the
only O/S it runs on won't run.


--
Bill Kirkpatrick
Sydney, Australia


"dcolanduno" wrote:

I wish I could, but even the Event Viewer won't come up for me. It seems that
suddenly my whole install is worthless. I really don't want to go back to XP,
but this might force me to do it, I can't afford this much downtime just
poking around looking for some mystery reason for my whole OS to just
suddenly go 'boom'. sigh

When I try to look at the Event Log and Manager I get:

"Event Log service is unavailable. Verify that the service is running."

So I go into the 'Services' menu to see if I can just start that service...
then I get this annoying error:

"Windows could not start the Windows Event Log service on Local Computer.
Error 1747: The authentation service is unknown."

Any ideas?

"Robert L. (MS-MVP)" wrote

Post some errors from the Event Viewer may help.

--
Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
http://www.HowToNetworking.com


"dcolanduno" wrote in message
news
My Vista Business has been humming along perfectly now for months Then,
today, late in the afternoon, for no obvious reason... I completely lost
my
network connections. Both my wired and wireless. I rebooted and logged in
a
couple times, and still it is gone. I can login to the local machine, but
still no connection, and whe I attempt to change settings in the IE 7
network
preferences, it won't even allow me to hit the 'Ok' button to finalize the
setting changes, it make the animation as if I push it, but no settings
save.

So, I went into my Services list and almost all of my networking services
are not 'started' and when I attempt to start them, I get errors... I've
searched around here and Technet, etc, etc... but all of the other folks
who
have seemed to have something *similar* happen... aren't really the same
problems. I've attempted some of the 'fixes' in those articles and posts,
but
no result.

Why would this happen? Especially the strange in-ability to even set the
IE
7 Net Work settings, I have to assume that is the 'root' of my issue. But,
I
can't find anyone who seems to have this same problem.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Derek C.

If you receive error 1747, some system files may be damaged or it could be a
3rd party software issue. Since you have 'sfc /scannow', try to start the
Vista with clean boot or safe mode. Also the following post may help too.

Error 1747: The authentication service is unknown
http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums...hp?p=5185#5185

--
Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
http://www.HowToNetworking.com


"Bill K" wrote in message
...
Same problem. Can't logon any users who aren't in the administrator's
group,
as well. All seem to share a dependency to the System Event Notification
Service not starting.

In the services view this services shows as 'starting' , but it never
does.
I've attempted to halt it and manually start the service, to no avail.

I've un-installed all Windows and Office updates automatically installed
without any further success.

I've run 'sfc /scannow' from the command prompt, as suggested in other
forum
replies.

This happened once before to this PC in November or early December 2007, I
recovered to an earlier recovery point and all worked again; until the
next
batch of Auto Updates installed themselves.

I'd really like to fix this before blowing the Vista Business away and
loading XP. Makes the purchase of Office 2007 a very silly option, when
the
only O/S it runs on won't run.


--
Bill Kirkpatrick
Sydney, Australia


"dcolanduno" wrote:

I wish I could, but even the Event Viewer won't come up for me. It seems
that
suddenly my whole install is worthless. I really don't want to go back to
XP,
but this might force me to do it, I can't afford this much downtime just
poking around looking for some mystery reason for my whole OS to just
suddenly go 'boom'. sigh

When I try to look at the Event Log and Manager I get:

"Event Log service is unavailable. Verify that the service is running."

So I go into the 'Services' menu to see if I can just start that
service...
then I get this annoying error:

"Windows could not start the Windows Event Log service on Local Computer.
Error 1747: The authentation service is unknown."

Any ideas?

"Robert L. (MS-MVP)" wrote

Post some errors from the Event Viewer may help.

--
Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
http://www.HowToNetworking.com


"dcolanduno" wrote in message
news My Vista Business has been humming along perfectly now for months
Then,
today, late in the afternoon, for no obvious reason... I completely
lost
my
network connections. Both my wired and wireless. I rebooted and
logged in
a
couple times, and still it is gone. I can login to the local machine,
but
still no connection, and whe I attempt to change settings in the IE 7
network
preferences, it won't even allow me to hit the 'Ok' button to
finalize the
setting changes, it make the animation as if I push it, but no
settings
save.

So, I went into my Services list and almost all of my networking
services
are not 'started' and when I attempt to start them, I get errors...
I've
searched around here and Technet, etc, etc... but all of the other
folks
who
have seemed to have something *similar* happen... aren't really the
same
problems. I've attempted some of the 'fixes' in those articles and
posts,
but
no result.

Why would this happen? Especially the strange in-ability to even set
the
IE
7 Net Work settings, I have to assume that is the 'root' of my issue.
But,
I
can't find anyone who seems to have this same problem.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Derek C.