PNRPsvc Failed To Start, HomeGroup and Peer Name Resolution service Problems

We recently con­fig­ured a cus­tom sys­tem for a client using Win­dows 7 Home Pre­mium. Every­thing was run­ning great until recently when our client said they were receiv­ing blue screen errors, and hav­ing net­work prob­lems. A quick review of the error logs showed that the prob­lems were all stem­ming from Peer Net­work­ing Ser­vice, PNRPsvc, and other depen­dent ser­vices and there fail­ure to start. After research­ing the issue we found that the prob­lem relates to a file named “idstore.sst”. This file is encrypted, and con­tains infor­ma­tion relat­ing to your Home­group, and Home­group set­tings. In our case, we believe an out dated ver­sion of Syman­tec cor­rupted the file while con­fig­u­ra­tions were being made.

So our solu­tion is as fol­lows. First we updated our anti-virus client, as well as con­fig­ured all related secu­rity ser­vices. We then deleted the fol­low­ing file...

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C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Roaming\PeerNetworking\idstore.sst

You may need to show your hid­den files and fold­ers in order to nav­i­gate to this loca­tion. Once that was done we restarted the com­puter and again tried to con­fig­ure the Home­group. At this point our issue was resolved. We’re able to make changes in the Home­group con­fig­u­ra­tion, and our error log is clean, clear, and free of errors.

Let us know if this arti­cle was help­ful by leav­ing a com­ment below. Happy computing.

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Force Nextgen Gallery To Crop Thumbnails From The Top Of The Image... **Updated**

In our orig­i­nal post, we sim­ply deleted a line to change the start­ing posi­tion of NextGEN’s thumb­nail crop. With the most recent ver­sion of NextGEN Gallery,1.4.3 as of this post­ings date, this was gen­er­at­ing errors. So we dug around in the code a bit, and here’s our fix.

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I Don’t Have Outlook, Is There a Similar Product I can Download?

The short answer is, Yes.

Listed below you’ll find a vari­ety of free Email clients avail­able for down­load. But be aware, not all mail providers allow you to use a mail client such as Out­look. Both Yahoo and Hot­mail require their users to upgrade to a paid ser­vice in order to access their Email via a mail client. How­ever, if you’re ISP pro­vid­eds you with an Email account, ie. pacbell.net, sbcglobal.net, att.com, comcast.net, etc., You’ll more than likely be able to access your Email using a mail client.

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Aug 03, 2009 | Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave A Comment »