XP services not starting

[quik1]

I have a computer that was infected with a virus. I removed all the threats and scanned it on another system.
I know there are no viruses left. I did a repair install 3 times already. Alot of the services just does not want to start.
Its set to automatic and must be started manually. For example - the anti virus doesnt start, the windows installer doesnt start, nic doesnt work, etc
Is there any way to repair the services or to ceck what is causing this. Reinstallation is not an option.

 

[ponder]

Format & reinstall or install Linux.

 

[Bobbin]

Reinstallation is not an option.

Get used to it

Spend days researching a mess of a problem that will most likely never occur again or spend 2-4 hours reconfiguring your PC. When it comes to fixing stuff like that even I would not bother unless I have all the time in the world.

But I am guessing something along the lines of either changing the account associated with the services start-up, re-registering some system files (regsrv32) but goodness knows which or resetting permissions on a regkey folder somewhere.

Not sure if tools such as diskheal or tweakui would have any solutions for this?

You could also just try a repair install rather than complete format re but I often encounter problems after this too and never bother anymore.

Recommend in future to image your disk from time to time and keep backups of anything you update such as documents.

 

[Zarathustra]

Try installing and running Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (http://www.malwarebytes.org).

In my experience, sometimes it picks up registry changes which prevent some services from not starting up correctly.

Also try CCleaner (http://www.piriform.com/CCLEANER) which may remove some entries which are preventing services from not starting up correctly.

 

[biometrics]

I know there are no viruses left.

I don't agree with that assumption. Anti virus software can not keep up with the legion of malware and variants out there. You may have removed some of it but it's likely there are remnants.

Best advice is to reformat and reinstall Windows.

 

[HavocXphere]

WinXp & reinstall isn't an option...good luck with that approach.

Win services that won't start are a nightmare to troubleshoot. Dependency issues, security permission issues. Hell some of them even need to be started by specific user types.

Your best best is to get a A3 piece of paper and start drawing dependency charts. i.e. you need to figure out which one is the start of the problem. One is failing to start because of a real issue and all the others are failing to start because of that one service. Security center service is usually a good bet.

The sensible option is to format though.

 

[quik1]

Yeah finally gave up and did a reinstall.