I’d post this in a forum but I can’t find the right one…

I run win2K on an older machine. It’s stable and for the most part I never need to fool around with it. It does what I need it to do.

Recently I made the huge mistake of opening a zip archive without first scanning for viruses. I introduced 6 viruses into the system. I probably spent over 24 hours working on the system, and removing the viruses. This was no fun.

Late one night, in the midst of working on this virus problem, I decided to diable what seemed to be unnecessary services. This was the next major mistake. I wasn’t thinking clearly and I disabled the RPC service. Not cool. Once it’s disabled, it doesn’t want to restart.

I haven’t found any good instructions on how to resolve this problem. It seems like I’m going to have to tear down the system and rebuild it. I don’t want to. If you have any suggestions on how to fix this Win2k problem, I’d appreciate them.

The recovery panel results in blue screen. Many system functions are affected by RPC, and of course they’re not working. Many other functions are working.

The system disk will not repair the system because I’m running SP4, and the disk dates back to SP2.

I wonder if the system will upgrade to XP? I guess it’s a long shot, and I’m reluctant to try, because XP seems like it’ll reduce the available RAM on a dated machine.

I have a backup of the entire harddrive, dating back one year. I’m sure there are complete registry files in there somewhere. I unfortunately did not follow the preferred method for backing up the registry. I may be out of luck. I’d like to hear from someone who knows…

Thanks!