"Chad Harris" wrote:
> 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
>
>
I realize that what I'm experiencing deviates from what you'd expect if
Vista was running in reduced functionality mode and that's why I said
"partial" in my first post. However, I can't help but feel that the fact
that my system starts working normally after I manually stop and start the
licensing service means that this is somehow related to Vista's
anti-tampering/anti-piracy features. This is the third clean install I'm on
and so far this has happened every single time.
I'd be tempted to call Microsoft for support but I really don't want to tie
this copy of Vista to my hardware if there isn't a known solution.
Regards,
Shelby Cain