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Some Windows Services Keep Stopping..

I have a pc running XP Home with SP3 which since a failed installation of IE8 has suffered various problems. I've noticed that some services needed for XP keep shutting down even if I restart them again. This seems to affect the Cryptographic service, Windows Audio, Themes and no doubt quite a few others.

I am unable to install IE8 now because it needs the crypto service running and other things  I have tried such as running dial-a-fix seems to make no difference. I have also run SFC without success.

I am going to try a repair installation tomorrow but are there any other things I can try before that?
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I would try to scan the computer for spyware/malware/viruses via for instance http://housecall.trendmicro.com/emea/
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A repair installation has restored everything to normal..
Regarding spyware, I had used various utilities such as combofix, spybot, etc to check the machine and found nothing..

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