While installing the NVIDIA driver suggested by Windows Update, I got the wonderful blue screen desktop with the enhanced bzzzzzzzzzzzzz audio track. Worse than the BSOD was coming back into Windows 7 to a desktop with Aero disabled! Screenshots were created after the problem was solved and I tried to make them look as close to what I was seeing as possible.
Ok, no problem right? Just reset the desktop personalization…..errr….NOPE. Desktop settings disabled?
Ok, System restore right? errr…NOPE. Service not available error.
Then I noticed a very tiny red x in the taskbar. Clicking on it said “Security Service not available”. I was also missing networking. So, pretty much every service that Windows uses was not running. After poking around, I finally pulled up System Configuration and WOOHOO!!!
All the checkboxes were un-checked. Also, in the status column all of the services were “Stopped”. You can see that they are running in this screenshot. By, re-enabling them in the configuration file and rebooting, I got everything back to normal. YEAH!
Evidently, Windows Update disabled services and the BSOD took place before they got re-enabled. Hopefully, this will help someone else trouble-shoot a scary situation.
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