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Crisis! Can't Connect to System Event Notification Svc- Nothing helps!
Okay, this problem has been seen plenty of times by others, so I've read some 20 threads now offering a fix, but none of them solves the problem!
Upon booting Windows 7, after entering my password, for several minutes I see the message "Please wait for the System Event Notification Service" (or words to that effect). After a while, the machine finishes booting and the desktop shows up, but immediately a message shows up near the notification area reading:
But, it's lying! You cannot use the event viewer if the System Event Notification Service isn't running!"Failed to connect to a windows service / Windows could not connect to the System Event Notification Service service. This problem prevents standard users from logging on to the system. As an administrative user, you can review the System Event Log for details about why the service didn't respond"
BTW, SENS (System Event Notification Service) is set to start automatically. If it matters, the last things I did prior to encountering this problem were...
(1) Uninstalled iTunes.
(2) Installed older version of iTunes.
(3) iTunes failed to launch properly due to various error messages.
(4) Performed System Restore from last night, before step (1) occurred, then rebooted.
(5) SENS problem first appeared, and when I finally got to the desktop, I saw a message saying that the System Restore failed, and that I should try again.
(6) Every subsequent System Restore I tried failed in the same way as (5)
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One alleged "fix" was to boot into Safe Mode, start the SENS , then run the event viewer, but in my case, I absolutely cannot start SENS! So I cannot run the event viewer, either.
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Another alleged "fix" was to use the command "netsh winsock reset", but whether in Safe Mode or not, although the command completed normally, it did not fix the problem.
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Another alleged "fix" was to run "SFC /Scannow". This is something I do fairly often, but it doesn't fix this problem.
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Another alleged "fix" is to startup without any user startup programs and without any non-Microsoft services, as follows (Clean Boot):
(1) Run msconfig
(2) Chose "Selective Startup"
(3) Disable "Load startup items"
(4) Go to Services tab, select Hide All Microsoft Services
(5) Select "Disable All" to disable all non-MS services
(6) Reboot
But this did not fix the problem, either.
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Another alleged "fix" was to stop the Font Cache service, rename the font cache to .old, then reboot.
But this did not fix the problem, either.
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Another alleged "fix" was to delete all the files under "C:\Windows\System32\winevt\Logs". This didn't work either.
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Another alleged "fix" is to run a Hotfix described at: KB2590550. Weirdly, you're not allowed to just download the Hotfix, MS actually REQUIRES that you request that the link to the file be emailed to you!
I made that request at 6 pm local time, but it's 9:40 pm now and I still haven't received the email!
I'll try it when I MS decides they can trust me with it, but does anyone have any other suggestions as to how to fix this crisis?
Thanks!