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iLLz

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Feb 12, 2007, 5:42:00 PM2/12/07
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Every time I reboot my computer, it runs in reduced functionality mode. My
Control Panel is blank and I cannot access the Personalize settings. I have
activated windows so I don't understand what the problem is. I have narrowed
it down to the Software Licensing service. It runs, even after reboot but it
needs to be restarted after every reboot in order for me to have the
functionality back.

Needless to say, that it is very annoying to have to restart this service
after every reboot of the PC. What is the problem? Anyone heard of this
before and fixed it?

I "rearmed" windows and reactivated again but the same problem persists. I
was thinking of wiping the HDD and reinstalling from scratch but I thought I
would reach out for help first, in case its something simple I am missing.

VistaUltimate

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Feb 12, 2007, 6:12:00 PM2/12/07
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Well I suggest you turn that SLS on to start automatically, that way you
don't have to manually turn it on every time.

Rock

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Feb 13, 2007, 4:02:34 AM2/13/07
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"iLLz" <iL...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote

I'm curious. What does "rearmed" mean?

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

Jane C

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Feb 13, 2007, 4:45:50 AM2/13/07
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The procedure 're-arms' the grace period. Makes it start from scratch
again, so you have a fresh 30 days until you need to activate. It can only
be done 3 times.

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Rock

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Feb 13, 2007, 5:05:28 AM2/13/07
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"Jane C" <jell...@NOSPAMxjgarage.org> wrote

> The procedure 're-arms' the grace period. Makes it start from scratch
> again, so you have a fresh 30 days until you need to activate. It can
> only be done 3 times.

> "Rock" <Ro...@nospam.net> wrote

>> "iLLz" <iL...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>>
>>> Every time I reboot my computer, it runs in reduced functionality mode.
>>> My
>>> Control Panel is blank and I cannot access the Personalize settings. I
>>> have
>>> activated windows so I don't understand what the problem is. I have
>>> narrowed
>>> it down to the Software Licensing service. It runs, even after reboot
>>> but it
>>> needs to be restarted after every reboot in order for me to have the
>>> functionality back.
>>>
>>> Needless to say, that it is very annoying to have to restart this
>>> service
>>> after every reboot of the PC. What is the problem? Anyone heard of
>>> this
>>> before and fixed it?
>>>
>>> I "rearmed" windows and reactivated again but the same problem persists.
>>> I
>>> was thinking of wiping the HDD and reinstalling from scratch but I
>>> thought I
>>> would reach out for help first, in case its something simple I am
>>> missing.
>>
>> I'm curious. What does "rearmed" mean?

Ah, ok, thanks.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

iLLz

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Feb 13, 2007, 4:08:02 PM2/13/07
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The service is set to AUTO and it is running when I reboot, but I have to
RESTART it to get the functionality back. It's totally wierd and I am
thinking about re-imaging my machine to see if that helps.

Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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Feb 13, 2007, 4:23:20 PM2/13/07
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Hello,
Is there an spsys.log file in the \windows\system32 folder?
Is so can you send it to me?
Remove the online from the email name.
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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iLLz

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Feb 14, 2007, 8:15:08 AM2/14/07
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Hello Darrell. I searched for a spsys.log file and I came up empty. I do
have an spsys.sys file though.

Last night, I totally reformatted my machine and did another clean install.
Everything went well and my control panel was back. I left my PC on all
night and it locked up for some reason, I think it might be my graphics card
drivers they are the Nvidia 8800GTX beta ones that Nvidia still has out. I
think when my PC puts my monitor to sleep the faulty graphics drivers makes
my pc lock up. I rebooted it this morning and my problem is back. No
control panel until after i restart the SL Service. I have already activated
my copy of Vista 3 times trying to rememdy this. Any and all help is welcome.

cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)

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Feb 17, 2007, 7:12:57 AM2/17/07
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On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:15:08 -0800, iLLz

>Last night, I totally reformatted my machine and did another clean install.
>Everything went well and my control panel was back. I left my PC on all
>night and it locked up for some reason, I think it might be my graphics card
>drivers they are the Nvidia 8800GTX beta ones that Nvidia still has out.

I never like to see "beta" and "drivers" in the same sentence.

>I think when my PC puts my monitor to sleep the faulty graphics drivers
>makes my pc lock up. I rebooted it this morning and my problem is back.

In previous versions of Windows, one can sometimes see that failure
pattern (suspended monitor stays black screen when attempts are made
to clear the suspended state) where the monitor is incorrectly
specified. IOW, the graphics drivers are OK, but the monitor type is
wrong - for example, when you connect an arbitrary monitor to a Win9x
system and then cancel the PnP "new hardware detected" dialog when PnP
tries to set up the detected monitor type.

Sometimes Windows is still working, sometimes it isn't, and sometimes
the processing has stopped entirely (hard crash).

To see whether the PC is still processing, watch the keyboard state
LEDs when you press CapeLock, numLock etc. If "very busy" or hard
locked up, the LEDs will not respond. If they respond, then at least
you know the processor's still handling keyboard interrupts.

Recent PCs will shut down or suspend when the case power button is
pressed; try that as a way out.

>control panel until after i restart the SL Service. I have already activated
>my copy of Vista 3 times trying to rememdy this. Any and all help is welcome.

SL Service?

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Jane C

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Feb 17, 2007, 8:26:34 AM2/17/07
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SL Service = Software Licensing Service. An essential to be running at all
times.

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Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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Feb 17, 2007, 7:59:52 PM2/17/07
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Hello,
What is the startup type of the software licensing service?
Also what is the startup of RPC service? ( remote procedure call) and
status?

Right-Click my Computer, choose manage.
Then services
Locate Software Licensing and Remote Procedure Call
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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Feb 17, 2007, 10:26:17 PM2/17/07
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Hello,
Can you send me the event logs as well?
open event viewer and right click on the log file and choose to save as
evtx files
Application log
System log
Security log
compress the logs before sending if possible in a zip file
remove the online from my email address.
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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Feb 19, 2007, 1:48:22 PM2/19/07
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Hello,
Is this OEM media or Retail media?

It may be possible you are seeing this issue.
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?id=931573

Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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Paul

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Apr 13, 2007, 11:38:02 AM4/13/07
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"Rock" wrote:

> Further to the above I bought an OEM copy of Vista Ultimate Installed it and activated it,All was well for a couple of days.
I booted the computer up and it went into reduced functionality mode I
couldn't acess the control panel.

I had overclocked the processor so it was running at a non standard speed
Vista recognised it as running at 2.40 GHz the standard speed but was
actually running at 2.93GHz

I reset the processor to run at standard speed in the bios re booted the
computer and the control panel was excessable again.

It sounds to me that Vista dosn't want to run on an overclocked system.

If the problem happens again i'm going to go back to XP

Hope this is of help to someone

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