Guest BuddyToBud Posted October 16, 2007 Posted October 16, 2007 I don't know whether this will be of use to anyone but until today, my W2K has not been updating correctly for a couple of weeks and other strange things have been happening - in particular the event service failing to start. I tried all the troubleshooting articles, trawled though all the security policy settings and went through the registry with a fine toothcomb - all to no avail. On a whim, I looked at the security settings on the .evt files in %SYSTEMROOT%/System32/config and found that only my user had full control so I added SYSTEM, SERVICE and Administrators to the folder security settings and bingo - I could start the event service and view the event logs. I looked at Sytem32 and the same was the case so in for a penny in for a pound did the same to system32 - no error codes for Windows Update now but not all updates would install - particularly .NET updates. What the hell I thought and repeated the process on the next level up (i.e. %SYSTEMROOT% - WINNT in my case) and all is now well in the land of BuddyToBud. How long this will last is up for debate as I still don't know how this happened in the first place and could well be due to an undetected virus or trojan on my system or could just be a freak disk failure. I would be interested to know if this is useful to anyone or have an explanation as to how this occured so it can be avoided in the future. Cheers, BuddyToBud
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