Hi All, In order to recover from a RALEKA.B worm, couple of days ago when I connected to internet, I disabled RPC Services and RPC Locator Services from Services MMC Console. When I was doing it, "Remote Procedure Call (RPC)" window mentioned that a group of dependent services will also be disabled. Not knowing that RPC is a very essential service for Windows to function normally, I said Yes. I had problems restarting from that point on. However, I was able to tweak the registry settings for the "Remote Procedure Call (RPC)" and "Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator" and made sure they are set to Automatic and Manual respectively. I am able to start "Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator" service from Services window. But when I try to start "Remote Procedure Call (RPC)", it complains : "Could not start the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Service on the local computer. Error 1058: The Service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it." When I try starting other services which are dependent on RPC, obviously, they would not start either. They say "Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start." Everytime I start the machine (Laptop), after windows load up, it gives me "System error &H800706BA (-2147023174). The RPC Server is unavailable." How can I come out this mess? What do I have to do to restore all my services normally, as I had before? I cannot connect to Internet, cannot browse files. Please Help. P.S. From all this, I learnt one basic rule: "NEVER DISABLE RPC SERVICES". Srikanth

Don't know about Win2K, but in XP (which may be somewhat similar), this can be a hardware profile issue. In XP at least: Bring up the RPC service properties. Click the "Logon" tab. Under hardware profiles, make sure the current profile is enabled. If not, enable it and re-try.

I've done the exact same thing!!! I'm looking for an answer. Please, let me know if you found anything.

There is a problem on how the RPC works. After disabling it, the properties do not work any longer. I did the same on Win200 SP3, the PC is completely KO: no cut & paste (only xcopy from DOS), no internet, ... I re-passed SP3 and updated to SP4- no way. I am trying to avoid to re-install, but I think there is no other way... Thanks for your help. furio