The remote procedure call failed and did not execute

Thanks so much! I thought I broke my computer or something, phew!

I contected my laptop to my desk top using a homegroup.  Everything was working fine until Yahoo told me to update my browers.  Once i did that, I was unable to print from the web.  I can still print from MS Office.  I am soo frustrated.  I have changed my Homegroup and done everything I can think of to me it work again.  But, when I try to print from Exporer I am still getting a message that says "Call procedure failed" res://ieframe.dll/preview.js

Can anyone help me fix it please.  I am using Windows 7 for my laptop and the other computer in my homegroup is Windows XP.

Hi aaabbbcccdddeeefffggg,

Try the following steps :

Type Services into the start menu search box.

In Services, scroll down to "Remote Procedure Call" and make sure the status says "Started"

and set to Automatic.

The second "RPC Locator" should be set to "Manual".

If the issue persists, as a workaround you may perform an online scan on your computer and check if the error message is caused due to malware or any virus.

Now visit the below provided link to perform an online scan on your computer.

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm

Later try installing updates and check.

Azeez Nadeem - Microsoft Support

 i had the same problem too, but i did the following steps and it doesnt solves the problem, the explorer.exe won't start and give the error message "

The remote procedure call failed and did not execute

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