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More info?)
Interesting. Good to know. Most of these issues appear to be idiosyncratic
and related to firewall issues. What was your firewall status and how did
you configure XPSP2's firewall?
I'm not sure setting to Manual will be a good workaround for those who want
to enable automatic reception. We need to get the complete, detailed steps
to repro so Microsoft can confirm this problem in house.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"John Beurket" <beurket@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:41421E71.7090604@attglobal.net...
>> Never been reported so far, but anything's possible. New patches always
>> have many unresolved bugs.
>> Did you enable the Firewall that came with SP2?
>> -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "wichitalaurie"
>> <wichitalaurie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:9697633D-997C-4482-B637-064D16789494@microsoft.com...
>>
>>>>I installed SP2 and then couldn't get the fax service to work anymore.
>>>>I
>>>> would get a message "all fax printers are inaccessible". I rebooted
>>>> the
>>>> computer and opened the fax console and up popped a message that XP was
>>>> blocking some of the functioning of that program. I clicked the
>>>> "unblock"
>>>> button and now everything is fine.
>>
>>
>>
>
> I fixed it by changing the Service from Automatic to Manual. This is my
> previous post on the subject:
>
> > Did it ever work correctly?
> > Can you reset the startup type to "Automatic?"
> > -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "A. Scott" <a********@*******.**.**>
> wrote in message news:10jgmpp80tumk3e@corp.supernews.com...
> >
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> my PC is windows XP SP2.
> >>>
> >>> I have a problem with the fax service - it doesn't start properly.
> >>>
> >>> The status of the service in service control manager is "Stopping"
> and the fax printer is inaccessible when opening the fax console.
> >>>
> >>> The last change to my PC was applying SP2. The faxfix registry
> entries relating to rpc are already in the registry.
> >>>
> >>> Reinstalling the fax components works only until the next reboot.
> >>>
> >>> One workround is to kill process fxssvc.exe then start the service
> manually, then it works normally.
> >>>
> >>> I can't find any resources on this matter. Is the fax service
> trying to start before an essential service? Current dependencies are Plug
> and Play, Print Spooler, RPC and Telephony.
> >>>
> >>> Please help.
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>>
> >>> Scott
> >>>
> >
> >
> >
>
> I am having the same problem. The install does, in fact, set the service
> to Automatic start. But since fax works when it is first installed,
> before the reboot, I expect that there is a conflict with another program
> which is also starting at the same time. (There are many.) Also, the
> original complaint stated that fax worked after killing the hung service
> and restarting manually.
>
> This led me to try setting the Fax service to manual start. I am pleased
> to report that the results so far have been good. The Fax service is
> started as it is needed when ever a request to send a fax is made or the
> the fax console is displayed. There is no need use a separate command or
> action to start it.
>
> John B.
>
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