From: "Robert Comer" 

I know, it was just a test case for me to verify that.  I'm much more
interested in it happening when for other reasons.

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Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message news:459f55b9{at}w3.nls.net...
> If you go to services view where it shows the description in the left hand
> side of the service list, click on license service, you will see that
> description.
>
> I know the license service being disabled will trigger reduced function
> mode, that's how I confirmed what I was seeing was reduced function mode
> but I was seeing it with the license service started not disabled.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:459f27ac$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Make that disabling the licensing service then rebooting triggers reduced
>> functionality, but there's nowhere it says anything like that...
>>
>> --
>> Bob Comer
>>
>>
>> "Geo."  wrote in message
news:459b180b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> If after 3 days solitaire still starts up fine, try stopping and then
>>> right away starting the software license service, maybe that will be an
>>> easy way to trigger the system to go looking for a phone. If it does at
>>> least we'll know that it can be triggered and then keep looking even
>>> though the trigger has been corrected.
>>>
>>> Geo.
>>>
>>> "Robert Comer"  wrote
in message
>>> news:459b110a{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> No reduced functionality here yet on either of my test case VM's...
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Bob Comer
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Geo."  wrote in message
news:459af278$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>> "Mike N." 
wrote in message
>>>>> news:b1ikp2h9n8lqb9sdfv8pjbisah8c4ligqf{at}4ax.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>>  The thinking was undoubtably, "big corp
whose firewall denies all by
>>>>>> default will use an internal activation
server".    They forget
>>>>>> "small shop
>>>>>> with decent firewall policy" has no default
connectivity either.   I
>>>>>> can
>>>>>> think of several of these that would fall afoul of
Geo's test and
>>>>>> degrade
>>>>>> to 19" LCD monitor that just displays a
spinning doughnut.
>>>>>
>>>>> At this point it's still unclear what triggered the reduced
>>>>> functionality. It's clear what cured it but the cause
could have been
>>>>> the routes or could have been any of or any
combination of the other
>>>>> things I did since installing. Until I get time or one
of the other
>>>>> folks can reproduce it I can't say for sure.
>>>>>
>>>>> My guess is it works similar to the reactivation thing
where if you
>>>>> change a video card it doesn't go off but if you
change a videocard, a
>>>>> mouse, and add a ram stick it does go off. This could
also have been
>>>>> triggered by a combination of events, hard to say right now.
>>>>>
>>>>> Geo.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

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