How To Fix The Dependency Service Or Group Failed To Start Error Windows 11/10
11The Dependency Service Or Group Failed To Start is a very common error that Windows users have been facing since Windows 7. And it continues to show up with Windows 10 as well. So, what is The Dependency Service Or Group Failed To Start error in Windows 10? When a user is unable to connect to the internet in any way, this error shows up in the Network and Sharing Center. It affects all kinds of connections, whether wireless or ethernet connections.
Users usually try to resolve this issue by troubleshooting it through Network and Sharing Center. But that may or may not lead to yet another type of error, which is “The Diagnostic Policy Service is not running“. Some even try to restart their PC to fix it, and that may also not help the case at times. Whatever the case may be, there are a couple of solutions to The Dependency Service Or Group Failed To Start error in Windows 10.
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Our lives have become so dependent on the Internet that we literally live there. And if something cuts off the Internet connection, our work and our very livelihoods are severely affected, so it is likely that error The dependency service failed to start is the culprit.
So, it can be that your Windows PC’s connection to the Internet has indeed been cut off. Pointless to say, you need to get it fixed as soon as possible.
A pretty well-known Windows issue, pretty much because of the sheer number of people who were and still continue to be affected by it, is one where the affected user’s access to the internet becomes entirely non-existent and a message that reads “The dependency service or group failed to start” is displayed in their Network & Sharing Center. This issue first affected Windows 7 users but, since then, has also been found on other versions of the Windows Operating System.
Users affected by this issue become incapable of connecting to the internet on any and all networks regardless of whether they try to connect wirelessly or via an Ethernet cable. Any attempts to troubleshoot this problem from the Network & Sharing Center result in failure and yet another message which reads “The Diagnostic Policy Service is not running”.
The Diagnostic Policy Service is a Windows service that should start running as soon as your computer boots up. However, when affected users try to start the Diagnostic Policy Service by launching services.msc, they receive an error message stating “Windows could not start the Diagnostic Policy Service on Local Computer; Error 5: Access is denied”. This error message, ladies and gentlemen, is the true source of this entire problem. If you are suffering from this problem, you are in this predicament because localservice and networkservice have, for some reason, been removed from your administrator group and your user account no longer has the access level necessary to start the Diagnostic Policy Service upon startup.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Huawei and Samsung.