From: "Geo." 

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
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> No reduced functionality here yet on either of my test case VM's...
>
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> Bob Comer
>
>
> "Geo."  wrote in message
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>> "Mike N."  wrote in message
>> news:b1ikp2h9n8lqb9sdfv8pjbisah8c4ligqf{at}4ax.com...
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>>>  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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