From: "Geo." 

How are you disabling the network on the one version? Mine had an active
and working gateway, it was just prevented from talking to most of the
internet (it could talk to all of netlink and probably thought it should be
able to talk to the whole internet).

Disabling the network is different than that, it can't talk to anything.
That may be a significant difference, one we should be looking at. It's the
reason I was specifying that the block was done with routes.

Geo.

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
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> 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
>> news:um3ip2dotvqsq2ouu3oem6drun5lfmra65{at}4ax.com...
>>
>>> [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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