Within the services applet, I try to start a service and it fails. The event viewer shows the corresponding error: DCOM got error "1053" attempting to start the service service_name with arguments "" in order to run the server server How do I fix this error?

HiService startup failure is going to be either corrupt system files, or a driver conflict.To repair all system files, go to Start/Run, and type (or paste in): SFC /SCANNOWRegardsRajesh J S

Hi Rajesh J S , Service startup failure is going to be either corrupt system files, or a driver conflict. the SCM is under user mode and doesnt communicate with the kernel mode, the SCM is a database which runs under nonprivilige mode, so the user mode services are loaded under the SCM hood and AFAIK there are no kernel mode services and the user mode services communicate to the kernel mode components which might be one of the component in Executive subsystem or direct kernel. So pelase understand that drivers which might be a bus driver / filter driver / miniport driver these are not loaded as services. sainath !analyze