XP service will not start

[martinlest]

I installed an nLite version of XP on my Asus EEE PC 701. This works fine (as far as I can see so far), but there are a couple of services which I excluded in the nLite setup that I now find I need. These are "Volume Shadow Copy" and "MS Software Shadow Copy Provider" - in order to be able to back up my C drive as an image file.

I have managed to install both of those services manually (I had SO much trouble getting XP to install with nLIte - not the fault of nLite I hasten to add, and then activating XP that I cannot now face starting from scratch!) and "Volume Shadow Copy" starts up fine.

Although "MS Software Shadow Copy Provider" installed OK however, I cannot start it. I get a "service did not respond in a timely fashion" error as soon as I click on 'start'. Rebooted, having set start to automatic, but this hasn't helped (of course). I have browsed online for a couple of hours now trying to solve this, registering dll files and so on.

One possible clue, on my PC running full XP, MSSSCP is shown as depending on Remote Procedure Call (RPC), whereas the properties box in my nLite setup shows the service as being dependent on nothing (blank box). RPC is running fine on the nLite PC.

Can anyone suggest how I can get MSSSCP started, without, as I say, goiing back and starting my nLite setup from scratch (which may not in the end solve the issue in any case)?

Many thanks,

Martin

[martinlest]

I meant to post this to the nLite forum (and have done so) but maybe it's good here too.

Apologies to anyone (administrators?) who object to the duplicate post!

Martin

[Arie]

Removed components cannot be re-added nine out of ten times according to the nLite FAQ, so you're most likely screwed. I don't understand why people would want to remove services and such anyway using tools such as nLite. I believe that at least half of all the problems which people encounter who use nLite, is that they removed a component which they shouldn't have.

[martinlest]

With an Asus EEE PC and a 4GB solid state hard drive, removing 'non-essential' stuff from XP is a real advantage. I certainly wouldn't think of doing so with a normal PC. Hope that explains your confusion as to why I would use nLite.

I wouldn't say I'm 'screwed' as such - it's just a small disadvantage. really - in this case at least!

M.

[cluberti]

If you can run process monitor on the machine when starting the service, maybe you can determine why the service is failing. Otherwise, you're going to be stuck using a debugger to capture the exit codes, and that won't be pretty.