Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The Authentication Service is Unknown When Starting Event Viewer and other System Services

If you find yourself in the above situation in Windows XP or Windows Vista, the first fix you should try is:
  1. Open Command Prompt (Start -> Run -> Command and click OK).
  2. Type in netsh winsock reset and hit Enter.
  3. Reboot.

This should fix the problem and all services should start normally. For more info see:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811259

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  1. cre8ted4thisOctober 11, 2010 at 12:42 PM

    Thanks Erik. Just has a client with 2008r2 that experienced this issue after the out-of-band sharepoint patches this morning. This fixed it in a jiffy!

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