Hi all, I've a Windows 2003 R2 x64 SP2 server. Today I rebooted the machine for maintanance but after the startup IPSEC service didn't start. When I tried to start the service IPSEC service I got the error: The system cannot find the file specified. I found a nice howto that resolved my issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912023 In my registry I was unable to find the subkey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\IPSec\Policy\Local I just registered the polstore.dll library and then I was able to start the IPSEC service. My question is: who deleted the registry subkey? Thanks, Piero Bacarella - IT Professional - Rome(Italy) - http://www.it-resources.info

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I had the exact same problem! also could not find the registry key, but I skipped that part and went straight ahead to Rebuild a new local policy store, that seemed to fix the problem for me. apperantly its an update rolled out by MS that caused the problem for me.