Network location awareness stopped abruptly

i have a server 2008 host running in a 2008 DC environment. All working fine for over a year into production.
One day the NLA service just went down, and server stopped servicing clients.
I managed to start it back by
Run the commands
net localgroup administrators localservice /add
net localgroup administrators networkservice /add
But I would like to know why the service went down just like that. No
changes to the system permission wise, was made. Or am i missing something here?
I can see just this event in log "The Network Location Awareness service terminated with service-specific error %%-1073741288.
Thanks

Hi,
Please provide full context of this event. These information is valuable for troubleshooting.
Thank you.

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