I do not have a system-wide backup, no - but I already tried restoring the
msconfig file to its former settings without any luck at all.
"Hobo" wrote:
> Well, since that didn't work for you, the next obvious thing
> would be to do a system back-up restore. You did back-up
> your system, or at least the msconfig file, before you
> started arbitrarily deleting entries didn't you? If not, a
> re-install looks like your answer.
>
>
>
> D. Ebdrup wrote:
>
> > Nope, using system restore did (as I expected) not work (and I should have
> > mentioned that I expected it, because services and their functions aren't
> > among the things that are backed up with system restore)..
> >
> > Does anyone have any other suggestions besides the obvious; something that
> > might actually lead to a solution of my problem.
> >
> > "Hobo" wrote:
> >
> >
> >>You can try doing a restore using a restore point prior to
> >>when your troubles started.
> >>
> >>Hobo
> >>
> >>
> >>D. Ebdrup wrote:
> >>
> >>>Okay, so last week or so I was cleaning up my msconfig startup options,
> >>>removing the third-party programs that sometimes likes to start up with
> >>>Windows.
> >>>
> >>>After this and doing a restart to make sure I had disabled the stuff I
> >>>wanted, I noticed that Aero and alt-tab wasn't working. This didn't worry me
> >>>a bit since I just thought that I might have disabled some of the needed
> >>>files for my nVidia graphics card - so I went to their website and downloaded
> >>>the latest driver.
> >>>
> >>>After installing it and restarting it, it didn't help - then I noticed that
> >>>Personalize (From the right-click menu on the desktop) didn't work either. So
> >>>I went to the control panel, only to find that it wasn't working either (and
> >>>the menu in my Start-menu was empty of entries in the Control Panel
> >>>selection).
> >>>
> >>>So this week I decide to do a bit of digging around on the internet to see
> >>>if other people have encountered similar problems and I find that some have
> >>>had problems with drivers (mostly ati, nvidia and intel graphics drivers)
> >>>messing up the licensing service of Windows Vista. So I completely removed
> >>>the graphics drivers of my nvidia card and installed them again - no success.
> >>>
> >>>So now I'm left with the problem that the licensing service (and the
> >>>messaging service that's linked to the licensing service) aren't working - or
> >>>I should say, the licensing service starts like it should, but the licensing
> >>>messaging service doesn't and that's (apparently what's causing my problems,
> >>>since Vista thinks it's now an expired trial license, and thus it has
> >>>disabled the features, like it's supposed to - or that's what I can piece
> >>>together, at least).
> >>>
> >>>Thus, I'm asking if anyone knows of a solution to this problem that doesn't
> >>>involve me reinstalling Windows Vista as this is a rather tedious task I
> >>>don't want to have to do (since I'm triple-booting on OSX and FreeBSD and
> >>>using Windows boot manager to do so)..
> >>>
> >>>So please help me..
> >>
>
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