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Services.exe is maxing my CPU usage...

Asked by fullcity in Windows 2000 Operating System

Tags: cpu

Woke up this morning to find that my PC never shut down last night... an error was on screen that I ignored (maybe foolishly) and hard rebooted.

Background info: last night I removed some software before going to bed... Norton SW 2003, Microsoft Text to Speech and Speech to Text and a few others that escape me. Nothing obviously important, mind you... I am not THAT stupid at 3AM. ;)

Since the hard reboot the machine takes a LONG time to start up. After the Windows 2000 screen the "Windows is starting up..." message stays up for a good 5 minutes. This is followed by the "Preparing network connections...", "Applying security policy...", each for an additional 5 minutes. Eventually everything 'appears' but as the subject states when I open task manager the services.exe is maxing my CPU out.

Third party programs run ok. If I try to open services I get an error " Matter of fact... nothing system oriented seems to work correctly. System response is dog slow at start but gets marginally better, not all my items are appearing in the system tray,

Here's what I did try:
1) Windows 2000 CD automatic repair
2) Reinstalled SP4

Here's what I can't do:
1) Open the Event Log - Error: "Unable to complete the operation on "System Log". The RPC server is unavailable." (makes sense, considering...)
2) Open Services - Nothing happens. Evenyually, I get a MMC error: "Unable to open service control manager database on . Error 1460: This operation returned because the timeout period expired." That's verbatim, btw. Matter of fact, most of the administrative tools don't open...
3) Can't reboot or shut down. Select it from the Start menu and the screen darkens and hangs...

Help....................? Please.

Adam

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Services.exe is maxing my CPU usage...

Asked by fullcity in Windows 2000 Operating System

Tags: cpu

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