IObit Advanced System Care killing Vista services...PERMANENTLY
 

I used IObit Advanced system Care Pro and though I knew that I would be better off not running the system optimization I did plainly because I was eager to see any improvement in speed though my Vista was already running fast and good.

In the end Advanced System Care Pro killed several Vista services.

And now after some weeks I cannot possible try to turn the services on again. I tried re enabling them via Vista interface(administrative tools, services) but all the options to recover them are now grayed out.

I would like to turn at least the Vista indexing option as now I can't serach anything, using the search will give me results on program list bar but it won't give me anything on the pop up search result windows. Damn it. I allowed my curiosity to get the better of me and now I'm paying the price.

Is there anyway to restore the killed services? IObit backup to that first system optimization now has been lost by newer registry cleaning backups. Oh I hate IObit :DL

Got the problem fixed.

I logged into admin account, run services.msc and right click, properties then enable the service from there.

Somehow this didn't work in standard account and must be done in admin account. The User Access Control won't show up when you run services.msc in standard account making you to think that you should be able to change the services setting.

Steer clear of "system care" apps. :yep:

Glad you have it fixed. :salute:

Yeah, Arclight is right, the system care programs can and usually are a nightmare.

No! Don't do that!!! If people quit running registry optimizers and "This WillMakeYourSystemScream" apps I'll be looking for work :yep:!

:har:

Glad you could fix it without bringing in to my shop :03:!

:rotfl:

Support the economy; mess up your system! :yeah:

lol. I clean my registry from time to time and have found that while Advanced System Care Pro is good COMODO system cleaner is much better at speeding up my Vista. Really. My Vista runs faster than my old XP on my previous machine. It really boosts the system quite a bit.

Castout - to understand why you must be an admin to tweak services is imagine yourself as a user that doesn't know what the hell they are doing and you start turning off critical stuff..... :D jk! I couldn't resist!

It is to protect your system from exactly what you describe above. In your case however, it was a good learning experience since you now know where to find your services.

-S

PS. If you want to learn more about services and programs that run on boot up on your system, pull up a run box (hold the key down with the MS windows logo and then push 'R') and type msconfig in the run box. That will allow you to disable and re-enable items at will without it becoming permanent. That way you can selectively start up items every time you boot. It will teach you a lot about what things are needed at boot time. The great thing about it is, you can always easily 'undo' whatever thing you did.

PPS. To modify start up programs with msconfig, as you may have guessed, only an administrator can do that.