I'm running vista business 64 and about two or three times a week certain

programs (listed below) just won't open. Usually after a restart they will

work fine. It is a clean install-- the only program that I have installed is

adobe reader. I have all the latest windows updates as of 7/07/07, and

indexing, UAC, and defender are disabled. I Did a virus scan with defender

and it found nothing. Problem Reports and Solutions is empty. I looked in

event viewer and didn't notice anything unusual when this occurs. Any help

would be appreciated.

 

programs that don't run:

control panel- its window flashes for a split second then closes.

all bundled games with the exception for ink ball.

windows photo gallery

windows meeting space

 

This appears to be a problem a lot of other people are having as well:

http://thevistaforums.com/lofiversion/index.php/t9746.html

http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=435655

http://www.buildyourown.org.uk/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=25393

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=144134

http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/582826-solved-vista-problems.html

http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=64831

Just a quick point, Windows Defender is not an Anti-virus program.

--

Paul

 

 

"Kyle" wrote:

> I'm running vista business 64 and about two or three times a week certain

> programs (listed below) just won't open. Usually after a restart they will

> work fine. It is a clean install-- the only program that I have installed is

> adobe reader. I have all the latest windows updates as of 7/07/07, and

> indexing, UAC, and defender are disabled. I Did a virus scan with defender

> and it found nothing. Problem Reports and Solutions is empty. I looked in

> event viewer and didn't notice anything unusual when this occurs. Any help

> would be appreciated.

>

> programs that don't run:

> control panel- its window flashes for a split second then closes.

> all bundled games with the exception for ink ball.

> windows photo gallery

> windows meeting space

>

> This appears to be a problem a lot of other people are having as well:

> http://thevistaforums.com/lofiversion/index.php/t9746.html

> http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=435655

> http://www.buildyourown.org.uk/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=25393

> http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=144134

> http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/582826-solved-vista-problems.html

> http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=64831

OK, it happened again and so I tried restarting the Software Licensing

service. It fixed the problem, but I don't believe it is a permanent fix.

I also found that while this is happening, I can't open windows update or

the personalization menu (right click on desktop and hitting personalize).

Does this mean that windows is running in a reduced functionality mode?

"Kyle" <Kyle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:993521EB-21E6-434F-A294-411C44A45E9E@microsoft.com...

> OK, it happened again and so I tried restarting the Software Licensing

> service. It fixed the problem, but I don't believe it is a permanent fix.

> I also found that while this is happening, I can't open windows update or

> the personalization menu (right click on desktop and hitting personalize).

> Does this mean that windows is running in a reduced functionality mode?

 

I made a batch file with the following lines in it:

 

@net stop "Software Licensing"

@net start "Software Licensing"

 

Just open text document and add those lines, save it to desktop as

tempfix.bat or what ever you want and click it after you start up your pc.

Can even add it to the start menu so it cycles on start up.

 

Not a real fix, but it does get the job done.