Win10 v1709 - HTTP service stopped working

Question

As I found out, this problem not only affects KeePass, but all (Windows) services that use HTTP, too. Therefore, I adapted my original question.

The specs:

Win10 v1709, all the latest updates
.NET Framework 3.5 & 4.7 checked in Windows Features
World Wide Web Services & IIS Management Console checked in Windows Features
Services are set up like out-of-the-box
Visual Studio Community 2017 with .NET desktop development
No CCleaner/manual registry "tweaks" whatsoever

The first thing that I noticed was that KeePass 2's HTTP-Plugin stopped working after updating KeePass (this does not make much sense, but I did nothing else at that time).

Now, when starting KeePass 2, it throws the following error:

The .NET HttpListener is not supported on your OS

The KeePassHttp-Plugin now refuses to work with browser-plugins.

Later on, I found out that all services that require HTTP Service - which is not listed in my Services Window - stopped functioning. So for example, the Print Spooler service stopped working. When I try to start it it says:

Windows could not start the Print Spooler service on Local Computer.
Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start.

Error 1068 is displayed on all those services. I googled it, but found no (working) solution.

I tried sfc /scannow, booting into Safe Mode, enabling/disabling all services - all to no avail. Also, DISM does not show any corruptions.

Another lead was No http service - Windows 10:

C:\> sc qc http
[SC] QueryServiceConfig SUCCESS
SERVICE_NAME: http
   TYPE               : 1  KERNEL_DRIVER
   START_TYPE         : 2   AUTO_START
   ERROR_CONTROL      : 1   NORMAL
   BINARY_PATH_NAME   : system32\drivers\HTTP.sys
   LOAD_ORDER_GROUP   :
   TAG                : 0
   DISPLAY_NAME       : HTTP Service
   DEPENDENCIES       :
   SERVICE_START_NAME :
C:&gt; sc queryex http
SERVICE_NAME: http
   TYPE               : 1  KERNEL_DRIVER
   STATE              : 1  STOPPED
   WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 183  (0xb7)
   SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0)
   CHECKPOINT         : 0x0
   WAIT_HINT          : 0x0
   PID                : 0
   FLAGS              :
C:&gt; sc start http
[SC] StartService FAILED 183:
Cannot create a file when that file already exists.
C:&gt; net start http
System error 183 has occurred.
Cannot create a file when that file already exists.
C:&gt; sc queryex spooler
SERVICE_NAME: spooler
   TYPE               : 110  WIN32_OWN_PROCESS  (interactive)
   STATE              : 1  STOPPED
   WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 1068  (0x42c)
   SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0)
   CHECKPOINT         : 0x0
   WAIT_HINT          : 0x0
   PID                : 0
   FLAGS              :
C:&gt;sc start spooler
[SC] StartService FAILED 1068:
The dependency service or group failed to start.

System error 183 seems to be a lead, but unfortunately, Google provided little help in resolving this.

Also, Event Viewer revealed nothing new (in my opinion):

See this link for the XML of all HTTP-related events (all of them were warnings, by the way). All of them recur after a restart.

Apart from performing a clean install (or at least one of Win10's reset options), is there some option to get things running again?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 20 '18 at 18:16

After uninstalling about every update, feature and module, the problem still persisted. I then tried to use a http.sys from my other computer - this did not help, either.

Therefore, unfortunately, we will never find out, as I now solved it by cleanly reinstalling Win10.

Win10 v1709 - HTTP service stopped working

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