Recent content by s660117

ectech, Thanks for your reply. I compared the services.msc list against the list in the tutorial and made 11 modifications, which had no effect. l also discovered that I had some services, other than those for HP, etc, which were not on the list and that I was missing five that were. Then, for...

Thanks for your reply, MasterChief. I executed services.msc and found that both the User Profile service and the Remote Procedure Call service were started. The RPC locator service, however, was marked as Manual, so I started it. This had no effect on the problem - I am still getting the message...

Hi, I just bought my daughter a Windows 8 HP Pavilion 17. During setup, we entered a local password for her account on the laptop. She has not registered a Microsoft Account, so the password entered is a local one. But now, if I try to change the password, I am told "This service isn't available...