Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Windows cannot open Help and Support because a system service is not running.

When you try to use the Windows Resource kit help feature, or another help feature you see the following:

Windows cannot open Help and Support because a system service is not running. To fix this problem, start the service named Help and Support

To fix this error:

Click Start, click Run, type cmd in the Open box, and then click OK.
At the command prompt, locate the following folder:
type in cd \
type in cd %windir%\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries
type HelpSvc.exe /regserver /svchost netsvcs /RAInstall
type HSCUpd.exe -i hscmui.cab

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