The Windows Search Service on Local Computer started and then stopped This happens if there are missing subkeys or registry entries under the following registry location: ...

The Windows Update service also depends on three different services called – Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Service, DCOM Server Process Launcher and RPC Endpoint Mapper.

The error message I received in the beginning of all this was "windows could not start the Windows Image Acquisiton (WIA) service on local computer. Error 1068.