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The dependency service or group failed to start

All of a sudden my windows 7 laptop will not get internet. Look in Network and Sharing Center and am greeted with the message "The dependency service or group failed to start".

Found a few solutions that did not work like altering the registry or the offical microsoft page about restarting the service.

In the end this forum gave the fix:

Type in the following commands in cmd prompt(with admin privileges):

net localgroup administrators localservice /add
net localgroup administrators networkservice /add
exit

Then reboot.