The Workstation service failed to start

[SammyDawn]

(If this is put in the wrong forum Please don't ban me and just move it to the correct category)

I tried to remove a lot of services and got this error:

These are the services I removed:

Automatic Updates

Net Meeting

NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Protocol

FAX Service

Messenger Service

Alerter

Indexing Service

Remote Registry

TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper

Telnet Server

Terminal Services

I have Windows 2000 Advanced Server. I integrated U. SP5 before removing services because when I integrated U. SP5 after removing services I got lots of missing file errors.

I used Microsoft Virtual PC for testing my Operating System.

These were in the Eventlog

Event Type:	Error
Event Source:	Service Control Manager
Event Category:	None
Event ID:	7000
Date:		8/1/2006
Time:		2:58:14 PM
User:		N/A
Computer:	HYIPO-61A7C167A
Description:
The Workstation service failed to start due to the following error: 
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.  

Event Type:	Error
Event Source:	SAM
Event Category:	None
Event ID:	12291
Date:		8/1/2006
Time:		2:58:06 PM
User:		N/A
Computer:	HYIPO-61A7C167A
Description:
SAM failed to start the TCP/IP or SPX/IPX listening thread 
Data:
0000: d3 06 00 00			   Ó...	

Event Type:	Error
Event Source:	Service Control Manager
Event Category:	None
Event ID:	7001
Date:		8/1/2006
Time:		2:58:22 PM
User:		N/A
Computer:	HYIPO-61A7C167A
Description:
The Computer Browser service depends on the Workstation service which failed to start because of the following error: 
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.  

Event Type:	Error
Event Source:	Service Control Manager
Event Category:	None
Event ID:	7001
Date:		8/1/2006
Time:		2:58:22 PM
User:		N/A
Computer:	HYIPO-61A7C167A
Description:
The Distributed File System service depends on the Workstation service which failed to start because of the following error: 
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.  

Event Type:	Error
Event Source:	SAM
Event Category:	None
Event ID:	12291
Date:		8/1/2006
Time:		3:41:13 PM
User:		N/A
Computer:	HYIPO-61A7C167A
Description:
SAM failed to start the TCP/IP or SPX/IPX listening thread 
Data:
0000: d3 06 00 00			   Ó...	

Event Type:	Error
Event Source:	Service Control Manager
Event Category:	None
Event ID:	7001
Date:		8/1/2006
Time:		3:41:19 PM
User:		N/A
Computer:	HYIPO-61A7C167A
Description:
The Computer Browser service depends on the Workstation service which failed to start because of the following error: 
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.  

Event Type:	Error
Event Source:	Service Control Manager
Event Category:	None
Event ID:	7001
Date:		8/1/2006
Time:		3:41:19 PM
User:		N/A
Computer:	HYIPO-61A7C167A
Description:
The Distributed File System service depends on the Workstation service which failed to start because of the following error: 
The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.  

EDIT: changed to codebox - tain

Edited August 2, 2006 by TAiN

[cluberti]

In the service properties, is the Workstation service configured to run services.exe? Also, did you modify services.exe in any way? If you create an OS based on a real SP4 source and remove the same services, do you get the same result?

[SammyDawn]

It seems to be when I removed NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Protocol the errors seem to be tied into IPX/SPX so it could be cause I removed NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Protocol Service.

Edited August 2, 2006 by SammyDawn