Re: Cryptographic Service Failure

Simon E-mailed me and I sent the .reg file to him.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\CryptSvc

He merged it into his registry and now has Cryptographic Services listed in
services.msc.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:O4Fi3i4zGHA.1292@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Wesley Vogel <123WVogel955@xxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Hi Simon,

Type this in a command prompt:

sc create cryptsvc

Hit your Enter key.

I have absolutely no idea if this will work or not. But it can't hurt.
;-) The command may not have enough info.

sc create
Creates a subkey and entries for the service in the registry and in the
Service Control Manager's database.

Whatever happens, post back with what you get as a result after running
the command from the command prompt.

Alt + Spacebar + E + S will Select all the text in a command window.

Press and hold down the Alt key, then press the Spacebar and let go, then
press E and let go, the press S and let go, let go of the Alt key. All of
the text should be highlighted. Then press the Enter key. Pressing Enter
copies the highlighted text to the Windows clipboard. Paste that text
into a message.

cryptsvc.dll is Cryptographic Services. There are other .dll files that
are related.

I have no idea if cryptsvc.dll is a self registering file or not.

But try this.

Start | Run | Type or paste: regsvr32 cryptsvc.dll | Click OK

There will be a message as to whether it succeeded or not.

You may have to reboot to see if Cryptographic Services shows up in
Services or if
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\CryptSvc
shows up in the registry. I am winging this.

If none of the above works, remove the 123 from my E-mail address and send
me a message, I will send a .reg file that will add
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\CryptSvc
to your registry.

123WVogel955@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:C4404553-902D-4FA3-A447-F08B6E2D88D4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Simon <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Hello,

I hope you don't mind me butting in to the conversation, but I seem to be
having the same problems as Peter in that I can not install updates and
the key reason seems to be the lack of Cryptographic Services on my PC
too.

I opened a command prompt as you have suggested and the response from it
was that "the specified service does not exist as an installed service".

If anyone can point me in the direction of where I can find it (be it on
the web, my office XP CD or lurking elsewhere) I promise my eternal
gratitude for ending frustration!

Thanks a lot, Simon

"Wesley Vogel" wrote:

Cryptographic Services is cryptsvc

Open a command prompt...
Start | Run | Type: cmd | Click OK |
In the command prompt type:

sc query cryptsvc

Hit the Enter key.

What do you get?

Anything alt all similar to this?

C:\>sc query cryptsvc

SERVICE_NAME: cryptsvc
TYPE : 20 WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
STATE : 4 RUNNING

(STOPPABLE,NOT_PAUSABLE,ACCEPTS_SHUTDOWN) WIN32_EXIT_CODE :
0 (0x0) SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x0

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:f7sgf2p3h56meq2079tthr6umdp9gl9tbi@xxxxxxx,
Peter Putnam <trader@xxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Greetings,

I am unable to upgrade (SP1 to SP2) my Win XP laptop because the
Cryptograhic Service isn't running. It isn't a simple question of
Catroot errors, reregistering dlls, etc. I've been through every web
site that offers advice and found nothing that helps.

They all indicate that the service should be stopped, started, etc,
but I can't do that because the Cryptographic service doesn't even
appear on the list of available services.

I suspect the registry entry that loads cryptsvc.dll is missing or
broken.

Can anyone tell me where I should look and what I should see there? Or
if I am barking up the wrong tree...

Regards,
Peter

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