Windows Vista Boot msg: "Group policy client service failed to start"

[Sabian Smith]

Anyone know why I get this error (pop-up window in system tray) every time I
boot Vista Business 32bit?

"Group policy client services failed to start".

I am on a domain, and the computer/network otherwise works perfectly. Here
is Event Log data:

Reason: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a
timely fashion.
Details:

[ Name] Service Control Manager
[ Guid] {555908D1-A6D7-4695-8E1E-26931D2012F4}
[ EventSourceName] Service Control Manager
- EventID 7000
[ Qualifiers] 49152

Version 0
Level 2
Task 0
Opcode 0

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2008-07-23T01:39:42.000Z

EventRecordID 46478
Correlation
- Execution
[ ProcessID] 0
[ ThreadID] 0

Channel System
Computer SEN006.Sen.local

Security

- EventData

param1 Group Policy Client
param2 %%1053

 

[Sabian Smith]

Re: Boot msg: "Group policy client service failed to start"

Any ideas?

If I start up services.msi, Group Services Client is not running, and all
options to start , stop it etc are grey'd out?

"Sabian Smith" <ss@eee.com> wrote in message
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> Anyone know why I get this error (pop-up window in system tray) every time
> I boot Vista Business 32bit?
>
> "Group policy client services failed to start".
>
> I am on a domain, and the computer/network otherwise works perfectly. Here
> is Event Log data:
>
> Reason: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a
> timely fashion.
> Details:
>
> [ Name] Service Control Manager
> [ Guid] {555908D1-A6D7-4695-8E1E-26931D2012F4}
> [ EventSourceName] Service Control Manager
> - EventID 7000
> [ Qualifiers] 49152
>
> Version 0
> Level 2
> Task 0
> Opcode 0
>
> Keywords 0x80000000000000
>
> - TimeCreated
> [ SystemTime] 2008-07-23T01:39:42.000Z
>
> EventRecordID 46478
> Correlation
> - Execution
> [ ProcessID] 0
> [ ThreadID] 0
>
> Channel System
> Computer SEN006.Sen.local
>
> Security
>
> - EventData
>
> param1 Group Policy Client
> param2 %%1053
>