Help and Support service missing after installing Windows 2003 Service Pack 2

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby]

We have noticed that on some SBS 2003 installs the “ Help and Support ” service will disappear after installing Windows 2003 Service Pack 2. You may see the following error when opening " Help and Support " from the start menu:

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Help and Support Error
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Windows cannot open Help and Support because a system service is not running.

To fix this problem, start the service named 'Help and Support'.
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OK
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This issue is currently under investigation, however if you are currently experiencing this issue you can run the following commands to resolve the issue:

1. Open a command prompt.
2. Navigate to %windir%PCHealthHelpCtrBinaries
3. Run this command:

start /w helpsvc /svchost netsvcs /regserver /install
4. Once this command completes the Help and Support service should now appear in services.msc
5. Start the Help and Support service

Regards,

The SBS Bloggers team

[Edited 7/3/2007 for clarity]