Can not open Network Connections in Control Panel

Control Panel-Network Connections shows a Blank Page. Previously showed
Dial-up Connection and LAN Connection. Dial-up indicated the status of
connection, connected/disconnected and connection speed. After a short
period of time with the blank page, a window pops-up-NETWORK CONNECTIONS
FOLDER WAS UNABLE TO RETRIEVE LIST OF NETWORK ADAPTERS ON YOUR MACHINE. MAKE
SURE NETWORK CONNECTIONS SERVICES IS ENABLED AND RUNNING.

Network Connections Services is in Control Panel-Administrative
Tools-Services(Local)-Network Connections. Attempted to start service got
Error Message 193:Oxc1, Could not start Network Services on Local Computer.
This Connections Service powers Windows Firewall which is down and will not
start while the Service is disabled.

Can anyone help?
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Lake Dawg

In news:06095C09-CA1F-4222-B978-3F803AD92254@microsoft.com,
Lake Dawg <LakeDawg@discussions.microsoft.com> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> Control Panel-Network Connections shows a Blank Page. Previously
> showed Dial-up Connection and LAN Connection. Dial-up indicated the
> status of connection, connected/disconnected and connection speed.
> After a short period of time with the blank page, a window
> pops-up-NETWORK CONNECTIONS FOLDER WAS UNABLE TO RETRIEVE LIST OF
> NETWORK ADAPTERS ON YOUR MACHINE. MAKE SURE NETWORK CONNECTIONS
> SERVICES IS ENABLED AND RUNNING.
>
> Network Connections Services is in Control Panel-Administrative
> Tools-Services(Local)-Network Connections. Attempted to start
> service got Error Message 193:Oxc1, Could not start Network Services
> on Local Computer. This Connections Service powers Windows Firewall
> which is down and will not start while the Service is disabled.
>
> Can anyone help?

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