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Wow, nice trick.. just installed vista in my PC..So far no problem Thanks for sharing..

By Nicholas | Pixobyte.com on Jan 26, 2009

Cannot thank you enough. Your tip really work.

By Ethan on Jan 27, 2009

Nice solution. Thanks.

Visited your blog for the first time… Hope to see you around

By Nihar on Feb 5, 2009

Man, thank you so much! Nothing to be found in the net, but your site and it helps!

By arnold kuebel on Feb 8, 2009

You ‘da man!

Thanks alot! Saved me restoring the whole thing.

By Steve on Feb 15, 2009

you are awesome. u just saved my friend from missing coursework delivery!

By zaza on Feb 17, 2009

A Very Big THANKS!

By Mark on Feb 18, 2009

Perfect guide for dummies like my self! Thank you very much!

By Stig on Feb 25, 2009

Man thank you very much.
It has been 3 days and i didn’t know how to fix it. you saved my laptop
But everyday it happens to me and I have to do this? Is there anything to remove this error completly?

By ramy on Feb 26, 2009

Thank you, I will try to do that.
But every time I turn on my Laptop, it shows me an error “Host Process for windows services stopped working and was closed. A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will notify when a solution is available.”
Does anyone know what this problem is and what I might do to rectify it? Most times I have to do a hard re-boot in order to get the system working correctly, as a soft boot or restart is unresponsive.

By Ramy on Feb 27, 2009

Thx man! Screw Vista!

By FT on Mar 2, 2009

helo.got problem with vista. i also got the Could Not Connect to the System Event Notification Service” Error and i read some solutions online but all of those remedies involved an open pc. my pc wont even start properly even the admin account. when i log to the standard account i get the “couldnt connect error”, when i log to the admin account the password is accepted but right after that a blank black screen with only just a cursor appears and thats it.. nothing happens whatever key i press..
dont know how to solve if i cant even open my laptop.. pls help.. thankz..

By angela on Mar 10, 2009

ok, il try that.. and see what wil happen.. thankz..

By angela on Mar 15, 2009

OMG! Your tip really saved my laptop! Tanks Very MUCH!!! This tip really work!!

By Yaileanne on Mar 17, 2009

Ya this works…thnx

By Someone on Mar 29, 2009

I love this site. Billion thanks saved me lots of time.I used netsh and I followed instructions worked for me great. Love you techmalaya and respect to your knowledge

By Michael Para on Apr 7, 2009

I will recommend your site for every one in Canada

By Michael Para on Apr 7, 2009

Thanks. This just save a lot of time and frustration over the next while. The laptop is back in business!

By Grant on Apr 20, 2009

Worked great! This problem came up right after clean install of Windows 7 RC1.

By Joe on May 6, 2009

Thanks you sooo much. You are a life saver…

By Clifton on May 12, 2009

God bless you.. you have just saved my night.
I’m very disappointed as always with Microsoft for not having any information on this though.

respect

By justtosaythanks on May 12, 2009

Amazing!!! I have been looking for this answer for 6 days. THANK YOU!

By kaleb on May 20, 2009

Had this problemn today.Tried this fix. Unfortunately did work for me. Found another fix at another site.Thank Goodness it worked!!!!
Here’s the fix. Good Luck!!!

1.Start the Run program in Windows

2.Type “services msc” without the invert

3.Scroll down the running program list

4.Look for System Event Notification Services

5.If it is “Disabled” or in “Manual” mode
change it to “Automatic” Be careful!!! Don’t
change any other.

6.Reboot and Log in as usual.

By H Moideen on May 21, 2009

Sorry I should say ” Unfortunately it did not work for me”

By H Moideen on May 21, 2009

mannnn,,i love youuu!!!!

By hanazono hairi on Jul 23, 2009

awww thanks, …been really helpful.

By P Olomofe on Jul 31, 2009

i freaking love you, ty so much

By jho on Aug 4, 2009

WORKED! This error seemed really critical, so many things were broken and it looked bad. Most sites suggested reformatting for something so nasty.

Vista had frozen on me after trying to wake up from a hibernation and didnt successfully reload, after rebooting I was greated with this.. thank you so much for your quick fix!

By Bill on Aug 4, 2009

worked a treat. thanks. t

By trevor on Aug 18, 2009

Thank you very much.This helps me and save me time to reinstall OS.Again thank you.

By Bobibo on Sep 2, 2009

I LOVE YOU!!!! I CAN’T THANK YOU ENOUGH. THIS IS MOTHERF*CKING BRILLIANT!!!!!!!

By Emil on Sep 3, 2009

it worked–thanks!!!!!!!!!

By bob on Sep 4, 2009

OMG. IT REALLY WORK!!! THANKS!!!!

By Shawn on Sep 8, 2009

You are a genius – Microsoft should pay you a massively for sorting out their junk bugs!

By Graham on Sep 11, 2009

Thank you very much!!!! It helped! I had the same as someone else here, just a black screen with a cursor after logging in to the administration account, and a “could not connect to the SENS service” when logging in to the guest account!

By Benny on Sep 14, 2009

Thank you so very very much, this solved my problem. I was so close to buying a new laptop, oh… glad I didn’t. Thanks again, I’m so happy I can’t put it in words

By DO on Sep 22, 2009

Thank U very much,
It worked on my windows 7 rc
I had to do a system restore afterwards to get my display settings right

By Paul on Oct 4, 2009

You have to be an absolute god !!!!! Seriously my sis laptop was fukked and this simple tip saved my life … MICROSFOT HIRE THIS GUY

By MuFFiN on Oct 12, 2009

WOW!!!!! THIS WORKED GREAT!!!! I REALLY CAN’T THANK YOU ENOUGH!!!! YOU DON”T KNOW HOW MUCH GOOD YOU HAVE DONE BY POSTING THIS SOLUTION!!!! SERIOUSLY, THANK YOU!!!!

By Synth1 on Oct 14, 2009

Thakns buddy it really worked.

By Shailendra Kumar on Oct 16, 2009

If this works you have saved me HOURS of hard work trying to fix my work computer. Thank you so much for posting this online. People don’t realize how much stress they can relieve in other people’s lives by posting stuff like this when they find a solution!
THANK YOU!!!

By Jonathan on Oct 16, 2009

You are a genius! How did you manage to find this fix?

By Brendan Robinson on Oct 22, 2009

You da man!

God, I had Microsoft.

By Craig on Nov 2, 2009

Sorry, typo, “had” should be “hate”.

By Craig on Nov 2, 2009

Thanks heaps Bro… tried fixing the problem for 1 freakin whole day to no avail!!! Googled on my phone and found your fix…works perfect saves me reinstall.

Thanks Again Bro

By Chet on Nov 6, 2009

Cheers mate – you’re a life saver!!!!!

By Sharon on Nov 12, 2009

you genius.. thanks a lot!!! can you please tell me why this issue occurs and how to fix it for good?

By Anjan on Nov 20, 2009

thnx mate.. hats off to u…. cheers

By Sidwick on Nov 23, 2009

Man ..you are great ….really techy ..it did not only resolve issue with system event notificatgion service it also resolve the issue related with windows wireless service..thanks buddy..

By Jayant on Nov 26, 2009

Thank you very very very very much !!!

By Thanasis on Nov 29, 2009

A big thank you. Looks like your post has been most valuable ALL year! Good on you.

By Drew W on Dec 6, 2009

This seems to works for me every time that my daughter’s computer goes on the fritz:P

By Aeryn on Dec 8, 2009

What does this mean:

“Using the command prompt, navigate to the C:\Windows\System32\ folder”

??

“Navigate” how? Type it at the prompt? Doesn’t work? Type something else to bring up navigation?

I want to fix this error, but some of us are just dumb (or not knowledgeable, or even mind readers). Thank you.

By I No Speaky Yer Language on Dec 9, 2009

Netsh and then Winsock Reset. Worked like a charm. Beem stumped WAY too long on this one. Beautiful!! Thanks!!

By Tina on Dec 11, 2009

thank u very much. your tip is very helpfull.
i luv it. very simple and techy .

By madhca on Dec 29, 2009

thank you so much! It realy solved my Vista problem and saved a lot. – from China

By seanmeng on Dec 29, 2009

WOW!!! it is working. Thank man. I dont know how you found solution. any how you are soooooooo good.

By vijayan on Jan 1, 2010

Dude, you rock!! Just saved me a full re install. Can’t thank you enough

By Rusk on Jan 12, 2010

I’m getting this same issue on a clean build of Windows 7 RTM.

Ridiculous that Microsoft have been silent on this bug which has been around since 2007.

By Squuiid on Jan 13, 2010

This is the only thing that worked!!!! After pouring though Microsoft’s “website” and “help”less forum which did no good.

By apiske on Jan 15, 2010

Thank goodness I found your page on Yahoo! I was having the same problem and couldn’t find the solution for sometime already and your suggestion works! Thank you.

By DetoxGal on Jan 16, 2010

Thanks very much – took 1 minute and solved the problem!!!

By Martin Brett on Jan 31, 2010

Thanks for your solution, it sorted out my laptop for me. Many thanks!

By Hao Zhu Ba Jie on Feb 4, 2010

I get the message “the requested operation requires elevation”

By David on Feb 9, 2010

Your fix worked man. Thank you so much!
My problem started today. I got that message and found out that the sidebar wasn’t showing the gadgets. My saved accounts and info in Live Messenger were gone too. But the steps above fixed the source of the problems. Thank you again.

By AbdulAziz on Feb 11, 2010

Another happy customer! Thnx much. Vista 32 system same message, “Could Not Connect to the System Event Notification Service”

Good to go now!!!!!

By RIkopus on Feb 11, 2010

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By Mark BOs on Feb 21, 2010

Great post Winsock LSP problems have been a common symptom of malware since at least Windows2K. N.B.: Resetting the “windows sockets” catalog has some side-effects: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/winsock.htm

In my case, this repaired a laptop in another state, where the “Could not connect to the system event notification service” traced back to a missing dependency for SENS, the “RPC Endpoint Mapper.” “SFC /scannow” could not find any errors, so we had to start looking at more exotic solutions. This page reminded me of this old, old issue, and it solved our problem. Thank you – very much.

By Kirk M. Schafer on Feb 24, 2010

omg thanks so much my gf launched my laptop off the wall earlier trying to fix this thank god it started and i found ur tip mate!!!!!! would be lost without internet!!!! thank u so so much!!!!!!!!

By george grosart on Mar 24, 2010

This worked for me too, thanks very much for the help.

By Paul Smart on Mar 30, 2010

very very much thanks to you friend…this is worked with windows 7 too.

By suhas on Apr 3, 2010

Thanks a lot my friend!You are the first and the best solution over the web!God bless you…

By George on Apr 6, 2010

Life and Job saver!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!

By Matt on Apr 13, 2010

Thank you so much!
It worked just fine for me!

By Alberto on Apr 29, 2010

dang, i can’t seem to get this to work, i have the same symptoms and everything too. i was trying to uninstall some programs when my computer booted down and then when i went to boot back up the stupid “could not connect to the system event notification” message came up. any help would be so nice. i did this solution twice and it still hasn’t fixed it. i’m on widnows 7 pro 64bit. i don’t have internet, for some reason my legal version of windows 7 has become deactivated, AVG isn’t running, and i can’t do anything with this stupid temp profile. please everyone, i’m desperate. really hope its not a worm…

By djer on May 4, 2010

and my computer for some reason starts up uber slow now, and takes forever to shut down, please everyone, anything will help. thanks!

By djer on May 4, 2010

oh my god,,! ive been trying to figure out ten other problems related to this,,i.e.: internet connection, updates, modem, everything i tried won’t work.. i thought i had to go last resort by system restore….! that could take hours and hard work..! im glad i saw your page..! real life saver!

By Afida on May 8, 2010

Hello and thank you for a great fix:) It worked fine for me, BUT approx. 1 week later the problem returned. Then I ran the fix again and it worked, then a few days later the problemwas back and it continues to do this. I have looked in services and set all dependencies to restart if failed – that didn’t seem to help. So far your fix works but is not a permanent solution. Also Microsoft FixIt seems to help, but again not a permanent solution. I’m using a Toshiba Satellite L40-139 with Vista Home Premium Danish, all drivers are up to date. Kaspersky danish version.

Any other had the same, where the fix work but not permanently?

If the author like we can exchange thought on this, just contact me:)

With kind regards

Jan

By Jan Johansson on May 17, 2010

Thanks. Worked perfectly

By Stephen Davies on May 24, 2010

Thanks. This worked for me.

By James on May 25, 2010

Thanks for the instructions to fix “Could Not Connect to the System Event Notification Service” – worked PERFECT.

Thanks

By moby935 on May 30, 2010

Fantastic! I am able top work again thanks to you!

Wish you the best!

By emilio on Jun 21, 2010

Thanks so much man, I couldn’t even get internet with my laptop! helped alot

P.S. This also works for Windows 7

By Evan on Jul 9, 2010

Thanks man, its definitely works

By agas on Jul 14, 2010

Thanks so much. This worked like a charm. Had a little trouble trying to figure out how to run the command prompt as an administrator. Turns out I just needed to right click on command prompt to select it.

By Dawn on Jul 17, 2010

Wow! This worked just fine, even restored other services like wireless network, DHCP, … that were broken. I was struggling with this for hours. So simple and thanks.

… Ray

By thermoray on Jul 19, 2010

Thank u so much i was in big problem and this process work Be blessed.

By Githinji Daniel on Jul 27, 2010

top work brother

By pb on Jul 31, 2010

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You are resourceful, it restored a bunch of other services that were not working anymore!

By Evans on Aug 3, 2010

omgosh thank you so much thought i was about to go haywire without my laptop thanks alot….really!!!!

By tracy h. on Aug 4, 2010

well i’m just about to find out if this works on windows 7 hope it does
……..
something makes me feel this is not going to work
nope it doesn’t
it still takes like a million years to log on + almost everything doesn’t work (when it finally logs on)

it is interesting that the same solution is (on some other sites) offered for windows 7 too…but clearly it doesn’t work..at least in my case

By marino on Aug 9, 2010

i know it is not a real solution to the problem, but i thing that the best thing one could do about this is to simply repair windows installation in case this doesn’t help, because i still haven’t seen another type of solution to this problem

By marino on Aug 9, 2010

YOU”RE THE BEST!!!
THANK YOU FOR SHARING…
THANKS AGAIN!!!

By Jojo De Castro on Aug 19, 2010

oh, wow…thanks so much!
I’ve had this problem for ages and couldn’t figure out how to fix it! I bought another laptop!!! If only I had known this before….it’s too easy Oh well, I have two now

THANK YOU!!!!

By Dominique on Aug 19, 2010

Omg your a total lifesaver !

By Wyanne Albert on Aug 20, 2010

Great fix! Thanks for adding on to experience.

By Chip on Aug 25, 2010

For those interested, this procedure resets the Windows Sockets which can become corruted by malware or poor software.

By Simon on Aug 27, 2010

Thank you so much! You’re a lifesaver, I thought for sure my laptop was gone!

By Kate on Sep 1, 2010

Thanks in a million!!! Your suggestion worked like magic and saved me from a long-period of stress caused by my inability to connect to the internet on my windows vista laptop. Once again, sincere appreciation for making my day!

By Fatai Adebayo on Sep 1, 2010

thanks voor the sharing. Your way to fix the probleem does works for mee too.

thx again

By Hamid on Sep 2, 2010

i did all the things you said and the message didn’t appear anymore after i reboot the computer. however, my laptop can’t detect any wireless connections anymore. it says “no connections are available”. so what do i do now?

By cc on Sep 4, 2010

Thanks so much for this tip it saved my week for sure

By Mikael Eklund on Sep 5, 2010

Worked for me. Many thanks!

By Sir John on Sep 7, 2010

thanks.it worked

By Amit on Sep 11, 2010

Thanks a lot for the wonderful solution…

By ravinder on Sep 13, 2010

Awesome. Thanks!

By Ben on Sep 16, 2010

Thanks very much for this… worked a treat!

By Chris on Sep 16, 2010

It worked for me too. Some clarification-
It works only when you are as an administrator. Once you are in command mode, you can change directory by typing chdir c:\\windows\system32
then type “netsh” and then type “winsock rest” and then restart computer.

By Hagrawal on Sep 17, 2010

Thankyou soooo much!

By erin on Sep 18, 2010

thanks a million

By bmays on Sep 18, 2010

thank you, you have made me very senang.Saya think I have to reinstall windows, it was not …. I am very grateful pleasure ….

By Johanes on Sep 30, 2010

Thanx… Great Solution.. ^_^

By Ayex on Oct 1, 2010

Tnx a lot man! I’ts fixed!

By Lucas J on Oct 6, 2010

I ran into the same problem after removing the Bonjour service LSP, which is installed with Itunes/Photoshop and a few other programs.

Basically what is happening is the TCP/Winsock registry settings have become corrupted. With Windows XP, there was a popular tool that simply deletes the registry keys and recreates them (winsockfix.exe), but in Vista/Windows 7 you have to do it manually. Using netsh, in any form will NOT fix this issue when you get the 11003 error.

Here is the fix that I discovered when you get the error 11003:
“http://ttcshelbyville.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/initialization-function-inithelperdll-in-nshhttp-dll-failed-to-start-with-error-code-10107/”

Basically you are going to delete Winsock and Winsock2 keys from your registry, then delete and re-add TCP/IP. Immediately after I did this, the problem was fixed, no more delay to get to the desktop, and no problems with Internet or otherwise.

A side note is that the inf file that they ask you to edit is protected in Windows 7, and probably Vista too, and you have to take ownership of it before you can edit it. Simply right click the nettcpip.inf, click properties, security, advanced, and then owner, and set yourself as the owner of that file, also make sure you have full permissions to read and write to the file as well. Those settings can also be found under the security tab.

*Note, a possible alternative is to simply export the Winsock and Winsock2 keys from another Vista/Windows 7 computer and then import them into the broken computer I did not try this method, but it may be a lot easier if you have a spare computer around.

By blah on Oct 9, 2010

phew…it really worked.
U the man.
thanks a lot dude

By bala on Oct 11, 2010

Thank you so much! This worked like a charm. Eternally grateful.

By judie on Nov 8, 2010

Thank you for the solution, it’s really helpfull

By -ZoE- on Feb 19, 2011

Hi, just a quick note to say thanks for this tip, I was losing hope!

By Gareth_London on Feb 27, 2011

I NEVER LEAVE COMMENTS ON WEBSITES BUT THAT WAS AWESOME HELP!!!! THANK YOU!!

By steve on Mar 4, 2011

thanks a lot… Woke up this morning and found the PC at a state like that… stupid Window problem… ZZZ

By JakeL168 on Mar 8, 2011

very nice tip, a simple trick that solves a lot of problem

By Shah on Mar 21, 2011

Man, thank you so much! Nothing to be found in the net, but your site and it helps!

By mohsen on Apr 12, 2011

Thanks soooooo much your awesome! It works wonders on my computer!!!

By Serenity Felwitch on Apr 14, 2011

Bom post funcionou na prefeição

By Vsrebelo on Apr 21, 2011

Brilliant!
Thanks for sharing this fix.
Worked for me too!!

By Chris on May 2, 2011

Wow thank you million times man! You saved my life! I’m a master student and you can’t imaging how internet connection is like water to me since I have loads of researches to do! And that solved it all! Thank you thank you thank you so much!

By LuLu on May 19, 2011

1000000000000000000000000 thanks!

By yes on May 21, 2011

5
I was getting the problem “failed to start system event notification service” and the internet was not working.

Tried winsock restart but still the problem persists. Kindly help ASAP

By sm on May 31, 2011

Great Dear ……………….. Works well .. thanks

By AlizTouch on Jun 5, 2011

wow! Ur too gud.. Dis rly wrks.. im so hpy.. It kicked my ass for a whole 1 dy to fix dis prblm.. Bt wen i gt dis sol. It tuk me jst 1 min… Thnks alot for ur fruitful sol. God bless u!!

By Grishma on Jun 18, 2011

It hasn’t worked for me, still get that irritating message. Can’t access internet and my computer startup is sooooooooooo slow.

any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance

By natascha on Jun 23, 2011

Thank you!!!

By emilios on Jul 18, 2011

It worked for me like a charm… I was able to connect back to the internet aside from the fact that this annoying message is not popping up anymore..
Thanks for your help!

By Ed Rivera on Jul 26, 2011

billion thanxxxxxxx to publish this trick….i was trying to fresh install of my win 7..but luckily i got your trick and applied it and viola.!!! it worked…thanxxx man…..keep up your good work

By mhd on Aug 9, 2011

Uhhh … didn’t work. You may not be God after all …

By Willaj on Aug 27, 2011

The message don’t pop up anymore but my sound is still not working, it can’t connect…

By monique on Sep 4, 2011

thank you it works for me 100%
God bless you

your really helped more people keep up the good work and God will bless you mate ^_^

By Hachibi on Sep 7, 2011

Ur the best person ever!

By Asfnsjhdjs on Sep 19, 2011

I would like to try this, but i am experiencing this problem and it won’t allow me to log into the account due to this error. Any advice?

By Jeremiah on Sep 24, 2011

I worked on this issue for 8-10 hours and FINALLY found your post. Thank you so much! Was starting to think that buying a refurbished computer was a bad idea, but now I am up and running. My issue was with Windows 7, but it worked. You are a lifesaver!

By Denyse on Oct 9, 2011

I wrote a long thank you message but forgot to put in the spam protection answer and it was lost so I am going to just say thank you and leave it at that. Thank you.

By Lance on Nov 1, 2011

It worked for me! I almost decided to reformat my computer! thank you so much!! Gosh!!! You guys save lives with free tech support on forums!! =)

By Arulnathan on Nov 18, 2011

Worked wonderfully, thanx. I’d like to know what just changed to cause this. I hate Vista.

By bryan on Dec 26, 2011

thank u sooooooooooooooooooooo muchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh……v r really genius….wish u lots of happiness

By bhavyasri on Dec 27, 2011

thank u loadssssssssssss….wish u all happiness in worldddddddd…………….u r genius……..

By bhavyasri on Dec 27, 2011

not any of these worked for me, still getting the same error + my internet connections are not working. i’m writing this from my friends laptop since my own pc isn’t working good.

if you have any new solutions please reply to this.

thanks.

help is needed.

By kaasu on Dec 28, 2011

Thanks…perfect. But I too would like to know what causes this to happen.

By Larry on Dec 28, 2011

Thanks man, you’re awesome. I had a really important job to do when this silly error happened. You saved me man.

By Ali on Jan 10, 2012

thanks, it work whit w7 64bit sp1.
best regards

By Ana Dias on Jan 23, 2012

Thanks a lot, it works on Windows 7 as well. Saved me alot of time. I was just about to reformat the hard drive.

By David on Jan 23, 2012