Thursday, January 3, 2013

Failed to connect to a windows service "Group Policy Client Service"

Windows could not connect to the group policy Client. Fun error. It really makes a mess. In my case near San Diego the PC was unstable, crashed and locked up after about 2 minutes. In safe mode, FYI, it ran fine.

I found this fix. I had to struggle with it a bit, but after following these instructions, got the service running again!

Fix:

Press Windows+R key and type

regedit and click ok

Go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\gpsvc - ADDED - be sure to take ownership and full rights for the administrators of the PC in order to delete. I had to fight this a little bit.

Right click on the key and EXPORT it to desktop.Right click on key and delete it from registry(not desktop)

Download

gpsvc.reg - it's in the MCW-DB - (\_Utilities\Registry Fixes)

Launch it and click YES, reboot and the service should be running.

*Kurt Rein* MobileComputerWizard.com 619 255-1215 Office San Diego Computer Repair

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