Shelby--
Are you in any of these categories? Because if you're presenting a legit
Vista including its product key that has gone into reduced functionality
that you have activated that would be interesting. If I had that case, I'd
call MSFT Activation. Or are you misnaming a situation as reduced
functionality that isn't reduced functionality but is a broken Vista that
can be fixed via Startup Repair accessed from the Vista DVD?
The behavior of reduced functionality mode in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925582/en-us
CH
"Shelby Cain" <Shelby
Cain@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I received a free copy of Vista Business through the "Power of Together"
> promotion.
>
> As I'm currently evaluating whether or not Vista is going to fit my needs
> I
> haven't yet activated the copy. I'm currently try to find a permanent
> solution to an issue where Vista appears to go into something that I can
> only
> describe as partial reduced functionality mode after every reboot. The
> control panel in the start menu shows as empty, attempting to open the
> control panel causes the window to appear briefly and then close. Other
> features like the Windows Welcome Center show similar behavior either not
> opening at all (with the mouse cursor switching to the circular activity
> animation) or the window opening and the closing immediately.
>
> I spent many hours troubleshooting thinking this was potentially a
> hardware/driver issue until I eventually discovered people complaining of
> the
> same issue and that what I was facing was in fact Vista going into reduced
> functionality mode without telling me. The current work-around for the
> issue
> is stopping and restarting the Software License service after a reboot but
> obviously that isn't a permanent solution.
>
> I've reinstalled Vista several times and I can't isolate anything in
> particular that would be causing this issue. Does anyone have any
> suggestions on how to resolve this?
>
> Regards,
>
> Shelby Cain