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I'm getting the following error when I click on any service in the services.msc control:

An error has occurred in this dialog.

Error: 54
Unspecified error.

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This is on Windows Server 2003.

As you can see in the screenshot, the error isn't specifying the line or URL so it's not giving me much to go on.

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I later found that the user had upgraded the system to IE8 immediately before this problem started. Reverting to IE7 didn't correct the problem however. – Dave Forgac Jan 19 '10 at 4:07
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I found the IE 8 wasn't fully installed. It had supposedly installed with a group of Windows Updates. I even got the IE Welcome dialog but when I checked About it was IE 7. I did the download from MS but I'm not sure what actually kicked off the IE 8 Installation. Once IE 8 installed my error when away.

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Try accessing it from another computer and see if you have the same problem. If you don't, then I'd say it's an interface problem and not a server problem. Have you recently updated the server (like installing IE8)? Have you rebooted the server?

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Reboot: Yes. Update: No. IE install: No. – Dave Forgac Nov 5 '09 at 13:55
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To fix this issue download and install the lastest IE8 from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/worldwide-sites.aspx and do not remove anything before doing so

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I don't know if this helps, but here is a few explanations about what error 54 is on windows.

# for decimal 54 / hex 0x36 :
  DEVICE_REFERENCE_COUNT_NOT_ZERO                               bugcodes.h
  MSG_DN_CERT_PENDING_WITH_INFO                                 certlog.mc
# Certificate Services left request %1 pending in the queue
# for %2.  Additional information: %3
  CR_DEVICE_INTERFACE_ACTIVE                                    cfgmgr32.h
  POLICY_ERRV_USER_CHANGED                                      lpmapi.h
  NRC_MAXAPPS                                                   nb30.h
# /* max number of applications exceeded        */
  NMERR_INVALID_NETWORK_ID                                      netmon.h
  OLE_ERROR_SETDATA_FORMAT,                                     ole.h
# Server app doesn't understand the       */
  ERROR_NETWORK_BUSY                                            winerror.h
# The network is busy.
  LDAP_LOOP_DETECT                                              winldap.h
# for hex 0x54 / decimal 84 :
  LM_SERVER_INTERNAL_ERROR                                      bugcodes.h
  MSG_E_INVALID_KRA_CERT                                        certlog.mc
# Certificate Services will not use key recovery certificate
# %1 because it could not be verified for use as a Key
# Recovery Agent.  %2  %3
  NMERR_PATH_NOT_FOUND                                          netmon.h
  ERROR_OUT_OF_STRUCTURES                                       winerror.h
# Storage to process this request is not available.
  LDAP_DECODING_ERROR                                           winldap.h
# 14 matches found for "54"
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I'm currently experiencing this exact same issue and I'm thinking the issue is related to the following programs:

  • Administrative Templates for IE7 for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1
  • Windows Internet Explorer 8

I'm currently waiting on approval to remove IE8 and go back to IE7 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957700 ). This should resolve the issue, but it's no guarantee - I'll post back after I revert to IE7.

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I actually did find that the user had recently updated the system to IE8. Unfortunately reverting to IE7 didn't completely fix it in this case and they're just living with the JS error for now. Hopefully you have better luck. – Dave Forgac Jan 19 '10 at 4:06
Thanks for the comment, I started looking into it further to see what else could be behind it, so I opened IE on the troubled server, help>about... and even though add/remove programs says IE8 is installed, it says I'm running IE7. Other (working) servers seem to be on IE6. Perhaps its a group policy setting that affects IE7, but not IE6? Still investigating... – Ironpossum Jan 19 '10 at 10:33
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I was having the problem with IE 8 on Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 edition, and I was able to fixed unistalling IE 8, we shouldn't surf in the internet on a Server Production Machine anyway.

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