Help and Support Service not in Services.msc
We were receiving the below error whilst trying to run System Information on a Windows 2003 server running SP2.
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Help and Support Error
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Windows cannot open Help and Support because a system service is not running.
To fix this problem, start the service named ‘Help and Support’.
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OK
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Upon opening up the Services MMC the Help and support service was not in the list.
To fix this:
1. Open a command prompt
2. Type “cd %windir%\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries”
3. Type “start /w helpsvc /svchost netsvcs /regserver /install”
4. open the Services.msc
5. Find “Help and Support” in the list and start the service
Tags: error, Windows 2003
Windows 2003 | Wayne | 
July 13, 2010 8:07 pm