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:\> 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:\> sc start http
[SC] StartService FAILED 183:
Cannot create a file when that file already exists.

C:\> net start http
System error 183 has occurred.
Cannot create a file when that file already exists.

C:\> 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:\>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?

You checked if the services were installed doesn’t mean they are running — Ramhound, Feb 14 '18 at 14:47
@Ramhound absolutely - but starting the HTTP service (`net start http` or `sc start http`, I assume) did not work. I added `sc start` & `sc queryex` results. — flolilo, Feb 14 '18 at 15:13

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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