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I am rather happy at the solution I stumbled on to. I hypothesized that the reason behind the non-compliance of RPC from starting was the hardware profile not being selected. I modified the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\ROOT\Legacy_RPCSS\0000 Then I changed the CSConfigFlags from 1 to 4 (choosing my hardware profile). After changing it, I tried to start the RPC service and it did. I restarted the computer and everything came back to normal. Hopefully people who have the same problem may refer here for a possible solution :) Many thanks :)
Hope that helps but I'll see if I can find anything else .......