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Last night a client of mine with good intentions towards cleaning up and speeding up her computer unintentionaly disable RPC Services in Windows XP. That caused quite a few problems due to the fact that many other services have dependencies on the RPC service. Also, it couldn’t be started in services.msc both in standard mode or safe mode. I found the following post that helped get RPC service running and get the PC functioning again:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=45704

Hi there,

I'm not sure if this will help you, but the reg key in Win2k to set
the start mode of RPC is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RpcSs.  Edit the
"Start" Value to "2" for automatic.  I assume this is the same on NT
4.0, but I don't have any machines to check this on.

-Eric