Hi All, I occasionally get this message in the lower RH corner of my desktop, even though my copy is legit and has been registered through MS. When I right-click on "My Computer" and select "properties", it goes away and Windows shows to be registered correctly. WTF is causing this? Malwarebytes hasn't found anything and I continuously check taskmanager and Sysinternals process explorer for rogue programs... TIA! Russ
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Thanks, sometimes I tend to forget about the obvious. Although neither showed any errors, I'll wait and see if this helped any... Russ EDIT: Still popping up randomly, still goes away when clicking "properties" under "my computer"...
This is a known issue which occurs when the startup type of Software Protection Service is changed from its default setting of Automatic (Delayed Start) to Manual. Restore it & restart & your problem will go away. PS Actually Software Protection Service is a very misleading term. m$ did not want to draw attention to this service by calling it Windows Activation Service, which is what it actually is! win 7 will never be shown as activated if this service is stopped or disabled.
Well, I had mine set to manual, imagine that! Trying to save a few CPU cycles by turning off junk I don't use... I switched it back, but what if I were to leave it set to "manual"? Does this do anything other than pop up that message? Thanks! Russ
None that has been documented so far. But since win 7 is very complex (or should we say muddled-up?) & one stands to gain very little by way of performance, it is not recommended to change this particular setting.