No desktop, and missing services tabs?

[drexel]

I was stopping a program from booting up at startup, and guess I got the wrong one. When I boot my computer it just shows my wallpaper, and nothing else. I have to go to task manager, and run a bunch of programs, and then some how that gets me to desktop. After I get in, I figure I will go enable whatever one I disabled that is causing this, but for no ****ing reason, the properties key that you hit after right clicking on the program doesnt bring anything up. It flashes an outline of a window, but it disappeares. Then when I go to close services, it says I have some of the properties windows OPEN.

[Super Nintendo]

first off what operating system are you running. Then it would make it a bit easier to help you. Also you might of crashed explorer when you ended that program is once reason why your screen will go to a destop but no icons and not startup bar.

[drexel]

Its Win2k. Knew I was forgetting something.

I just tried to install something, and it said something about RPC. That program is disabled in startup, but I cant enable it because the damn system wont bring up the option.

[drexel]

Actually the system boots, it just takes forever. This RPC thing is stoping half of my programs from running though. It pops them up, then they disappear. How can I enable that again? It wont work through services.

The program is called"Server" in the startup list. Description says "provides RPC support and file, print, and named pipe sharing".

When I tried to install the some software it said, "The install shield engine(ikernel.exe) could not be launched.
The RPC server is unavailabe."

[skab]

Did you try or can yuo try, left click start, then go to run, then type "msconfig" that should give you a menu that will let you enable everything or change your startup to safe mode.

[drexel]

Naw, windows 2k doesnt have an msconfig. You have to go into admin options, and a similiar thing is there, but when I disabled the RPC service, it just disables certain programs. The RPC didnt block the whole thing, but when I hit the tab to enable it, it just sits there. So disabling the RPC disabled the option of disabling/enabling startup programs. I need an alternate way of getting in, and enabling the RPC service.

[Fiz]

You can run the recovery console and start it manually(had to do this to about 10 services once). Boot from CD or win2k floppies, start the recovery console. there is a command to list all of the services on your box. Hunt down the RPC and copy the exact wording of it. Then then type "enable /?" it will tell you the syntax to enavle the service, and how to set it to auto, system or disabled.

Fiz

[DDR-PIII]

lol i did that yesterday by accident haha :0 but I just installed XP pro agian :)

[drexel]

Thanks for the help. I ended up having to resinstall anyway.