I just had a weird issue. I have an VM (Win XP Pro, SP3) that I use as a 
management console of sorts. It has NMC installed, as well as MS AD tools, 
etc. I just inadvertently updated from IE 7 to IE 8 (why MS thinks that is 
a "critical update", and you must explicitly decline it, I don't know). 
Anyway, after the system re-started, the Remote Exec service wouldn't 
start, and so neither would NMC. Gave me some weird error in the event 
log:

The EMC GST Service service depends on the NetWorker Remote Exec Service 
service which failed to start because of the following error: 
%%0

Descriptive, huh? :-)

Anyway, I uninstalled IE 8 (it complained, but I ignored it), and now all 
works as it should again. Console came up fine. Not sure what the problem 
is (maybe a permissions issue on a local install folder? It complained it 
couldn't write to "\Program Files\Legato\nsr\temp\ko"), but I thought I'd 
pass that along. Works fine using IE 7 and JRE 1.6.

-- 
Michael Leone
Network Administrator, ISM
Philadelphia Housing Authority
2500 Jackson St
Philadelphia, PA 19145
Tel:  215-684-4180
Cell: 215-252-0143
<mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>

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