When you attempt to join a computer to a HomeGroup or create a HomeGroup from your Windows 10 computer, the following error message appears and the feature can’t be enabled.
Windows can’t set up a HomeGroup on this computer
Services
View Resources Usage by Individual Services in Windows 10
With the Windows 10 Creators Update (codenamed “Redstone 2”) Preview Build 14942, the way in which services are hosted has changed. In Windows 10 v1703 systems with more than 3.5 GB of RAM, each service would get its own service host (svchost.exe), instead of running under a shared service process. This lets you view the resources usage by each individual service. Resources here mean network, memory, disk and CPU usage.Read more
Windows 8 Services Configuration Default Startup Type
Windows 8 Services configuration defaults are listed here. Has your services configuration changes gone awry and not sure about the default settings? This list might benefit some users, especially for the tweakers and breakers 🙂Read more
Fix Windows Search Error 1053 “Service did not respond”
Recently I came across a problem where the Windows Search service failed to auto-start, and manually starting the service using Services MMC resulted in Error 1053, with the following error message verbatim.Read more
Backup Windows 10/11 Services Startup Type Configuration
After doing a fresh install of Windows, disabling unused Windows Services is one of the time-consuming tasks you perform. Once configured, you can back up the service startup state using a Script so that it can be used for subsequent installations or if you need to automate the task on several computers.
Services state backups can also help when you troubleshoot Windows services and want to quickly roll back the changes you made.
Fix for Error “The Audio Service is not running” in Windows
The speaker icon in the Taskbar’s notification area may appear with a red cross. When you hover the mouse pointer, it may say, “The Audio Service is not running.”
Launching the Volume Mixer by running Sndvol.exe would show the following error:
No audio device is installed
Task Scheduler Service Grayed Out in Services MMC
When you open the Services management console (services.msc), the Task Scheduler service may be in a disabled state. In the Task Scheduler properties page, all the options may be grayed out, and the service Startup type cannot be changed.
This article tells you how to configure the Task Scheduler service using a couple of methods.Read more
How to Delete a Windows Service in Windows 10/11 and Earlier
Have you come across a situation where uninstalling software leaves its Service or driver entries in the registry, and Windows tries to load them at every boot, fails, and logs the error to the System Event log at every startup?
This article tells you how to delete an orphaned service in Windows 10 (and earlier) using the registry, SC.exe command-line, PowerShell, or Autoruns. Before proceeding further, create a System Restore Point and take a complete Registry backup.
If you find that no dependents exist for a service, you can delete the leftover or unwanted Service in Windows using one of the following methods.
Fix Spooler Service Error 1068 “The dependency service or group failed to start”
When you attempt to start the Print Spooler service (via services.msc), one of the following error messages may appear and the Print Spooler service fails to start:
Could not start the Print Spooler service on Local Computer. Error 1075: The dependency service does not exist or has been marked for deletion.
Could not start the Print Spooler service on Local Computer. Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start.
The event log may display the following messages:Read more
