Resetting a Broken Service
If Windows 8 is acting erratically (or, we should say, if it’s acting more erratically than usual), the problem could be a service that’s somehow gotten corrupted. How can you tell? The most obvious clue is an error message that tells you a particular service isn’t running or couldn’t start. You can also check the Event Viewer for service errors. Finally, if a particular feature of Windows 8 is acting funny and you know that a service is associated with that feature, you might suspect that service is causing the trouble.
To fix the problem (hopefully!), you can reset the broken service. The procedure involves the following four general steps:
1. Find out the name of the service that is (or that you suspect is) broken. ...
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