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Red 'X' Network - 'The dependency service or group failed to start'
Hi there,
This morning I turned on my PC, which was functioning perfectly fine the day before, and saw it had a red 'X' on the network connection. The Network & Sharing center said 'The dependency service or group failed to start'".
At this point I uninstalled the last program I installed, bitcasa, especially since it was network attached storage in the cloud, so I assumed it could be causing problems. After a reboot, that didn't help.
I went into services.msc and tried to manually start the 'Network List Service', but it threw up the same error, with the code 1068. I tried to start some of the services that it depends on, I think it was the DHCP something, but it said "Error 5: Access Denied".
Furthermore, I did some basic troubleshooting stuff which I will cover below and was hit with the error message "The diagnostics policy service is not running'.
Here's stuff I tried:
Malwarebytes scan (was clean)
Basic troubleshooting (was useless)
Uninstalled bitcasa
Rebooted
SFC Scan (came back fine)
So, have you any idea what I can do to fix this? Here's a list of things I have compiled that I will attempt when I get home:
-Safe mode with networking
-Uninstall one other suspect program
-Turn on all services related to networking (or at least attempt to)
-Re-install motherboard network adaptors / drivers
Thanks in advance. I really need to solve this as quick as possible so unless you superstars have any awesome tricks that can fix this, I may just do a fresh install of Windows.
EDIT:I must add:
System restore is not enabled (I have an SSD)
My internet connection works fine for all other PC's in the house
Cheers,
Sheza