anyone going to help here, system services

When I go into the services that are running and go to either stop them or
whatever I get this message:

Configuration Manager: A required entry in the registry is missing or an
attempt to write to the registry failed. It still lets me stop the service
but I get that message, why?

Any suggestions?

Debbie

Debbie Graham wrote:
> When I go into the services that are running and go to either stop them or
> whatever I get this message:
>
> Configuration Manager: A required entry in the registry is missing or an
> attempt to write to the registry failed. It still lets me stop the service
> but I get that message, why?

This is a public newsgroup hosted on Microsoft servers. Although some MS
employees occasionally post here, the vast majority of the helpers are
volunteers who do not work for the company. If no one has answered your
question, it may be because no one knows the answer or the person who
does know the answer hasn't read your question. And no, I don't know
your answer either.

I did a Google for "Configuration Manager: A required entry in the
registry is missing Vista" and found a few links. Although I didn't see
anything that might fit your case (although I did see your post in
various places), you might want to try the search yourself to see if
anything suggests itself to you as being useful. Since I don't know
anything about your computer, I don't know if any of the links are
applicable to your situation.

You can do the general troubleshooting below:

The First Question Of Troubleshooting: what changed between the time
things worked and the time they didn't?

The Second Question of Windows Troubleshooting: what is the
malware/virus status of the machine? If you think it is clean, what
programs (and versions) did you use to determine this?

Be sure the computer is clean:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...moving_Malware

If the computer is clean, perhaps there is something running in the
background causing your error, in which case clean-boot troubleshooting
might be useful:

How to perform a clean boot in Vista and XP -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796

If none of the above works, you always have the option of paying for
tech support. Get the name of a professional computer repair shop/tech
from family, friends, colleagues. This will not be a
BigComputerStore/GeekSquad type of place.

I'm sorry that I was unable to help you.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Debbie

If you don't get a response to your message within a reasonable period of
time, it usually means that there is not enough information or details in
the original message.

What version of Vista are you using?
How are you accessing the Services component?
Which service are you stopping?

Have you looked in the Event Viewer for any errors associated with this
behavior?

Go to Administrative Tools / Event Viewer. Look in Custom Views /
Administrative Events for any errors associated with this error message. If
you find one, double click the entry to view the details. If this does not
give you enough information, click the Copy Button at the bottom of that
error dialog box and paste the results in a reply to this thread.

Someone may be able to help.

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"Debbie Graham" <> wrote in message
news:...
> When I go into the services that are running and go to either stop them or
> whatever I get this message:
>
> Configuration Manager: A required entry in the registry is missing or an
> attempt to write to the registry failed. It still lets me stop the
> service
> but I get that message, why?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Debbie
>