From: "Robert Comer" 

I'm game, but I'll be running Vista in a VM, and 2 instances of it.  One
disabling the license server and the other with no network connectivity at
all other than the initial activation. I'd run a third with null routes,
but I don't have enough RAM to go around...

I'm very curious as to what might be going on.

--
Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message
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> "mike"  wrote in message
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>> [aside to Geo.: I think you're right, the marketing droids and
>> accountants *have* taken over Redmond.  No techie in her/his right mind
>> would utter a phrase like "Enhanced Reduced Functionality".]
>
> It's like the Monty python skit about stringetts..
>
> The folks over at MS are nuts. I've been poking this thing with a stick
> and it's real nasty.. anyway the first signs of reduced functionality are
> solitaire, network properties, and control panel failing to start up, you
> get the magic donut and then nothing..
>
> I'm running a second test to see what goes next but it will take another
> 24 hours to get past where I was. It also may be different, since MS has
> built in the capability to determine most recently used over time, it may
> shut different things down depending on what gets used and how often it
> gets used. I'd need someone else running vista to disable the software
> license service to see if their order of RF is the same as mine. (bob, you
> game?)
>
> Geo.

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