Vista “Server Execution Failed” – No Network Access Fix
After installing AIM the other day my Windows Vista install started acting very weird. It all started on the reboot after installation, for some reason my wireless adapter was no longer connecting to the service. When I tried to connect to a network or do anything pertaining to “networking” the computer would slow to a crawl, stop responding, throw the blue screen of death, then restart; or it would just hand forever. This is a huge problem! Having a laptop without wireless access is pretty useless imo, so I needed to find a fix for this issue ASAP. After some searching I came upon this article on Microsoft Technet, which is extremely long and conversational, so I figure I’d post the important part.
I was able to regain wireless access and normal computer activity by following these steps:
- Right click “Computer”
- Click “Manage”
- Under “System Tools” double click “Local Users and Groups”
- Click “Groups”
- Right click “Administrators”
- Click “Add to group…”
- Click “Add”
- Click “Advanced”
- Click “Find Now”
- Double click “Local Service” and click “Ok”
- “NT Authority / Local Service” should now show up in the list
- Click “Ok” to finish
- Close computer management and reboot!
That should restore your network functionality and general computer-peace overall. It is important that this bug is not directly tied to AIM- it is triggered by a combination of application and/or services it just happens that in my situation, it was triggered by AIM. So AOL is still crap, but in this case the finger is pointing at Microsoft.
