How to Fix The Dependency Service or Group Failed to Start
26How to Fix The Dependency Service or Group Failed to Start.
What causes dependency service errors?
Even shifting from an Ethernet to a wireless connection, or vice versa, to fix the problem will not bring any relief. It is not a hardware issue, something deep inside the Windows OS’s services is broken.
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”.
Almost by impulse, the first place you will go to fix any internet connection issues will be the network sharing center. This is where you would normally troubleshoot and fix connection errors.
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.
Still, this error is a little tricky. Trying to troubleshoot it will only return another error – “The Diagnostic Policy Service is not running’. That will stop you dead in your tracks.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 operating systems.Works for all major computer manufactures (Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung).