A customer brought me in her NB yesterday. She said it wouldn't load
windows. I booted it up perfectly fine. However i could not get online
with it, nor could i do anything else. Come to find out, well over 3/4
of the services were set at disabled.

I took my print out of Black Vipers site and went through the services,
turning them back on. Then everything seemed fine. That is until i
rebooted. Then they all went back to being disabled again. The only
ones that run is for her AVG. And a few others.

What would cause these to do this? I have ran complete virus and
spyware scans as well as a root kit scan. Other then cookies and m web
search, it's clean.

I was thinking of doing a repair install to see if it fixes it, but i
am curious. I haven't come across this before. And searching google,
i'm not turning anything up. So most likely. i'm searching the wrong
strings.

The customer is a student at Penn State, but i know they wouldn't have
all the normal services shut off on a system. I've seen some weird
things come from their IT dept. But this is a little overboard if it
is.

Any idea's? Thanks!