"Security Center" not showing up in my windows services

[Paluka]

Is this very bad? I cannot connect to the internet or change my windows firewall settings...

[stabn]

You mean control panel? Do you have XP Sp2? There's no 'service' called security center. Also are you using classic or XP view for control panels

[Paluka]

I mean when I go to security center through the control panel it says "The Security Center is unavailible because the "Security Center" service was not started or stopped>"
if i run services.msc on my desktop Security Center does not show up, but it does on every other machine I've checked.

[stabn]

I'm really not sure on this one. I did a little searching too and came up blank. If you don't get any specific info on this i'd say try system restore or a repair from the XP cd.

[Chief911]

And this computer previously has had Sp2 installed?

I'd do a system restore, and go from there. System restore should handle it though.

Do you have antivirus on there?

nick