where has vista welcome center\control panal gone??

crazyDAJT · 8 Feb 2008 at 16:11

bit of a strange one.

all of a sudden, as of yesterday evening, my vista center has stopped showing on start up. also i cant assess control panel, each time i try to open it a blank window (which i assume is the control panel) opens for a fraction of a second and then closes itself.

this is kind of stopping me actually using my PC as i cant change any settings at the moment.

vista has only bean installed for a two weeks

EDIT: it doesn't work in administrator mode, and a right click property's on my computer does the same as the control panel.

uv · 8 Feb 2008 at 16:21

same thing happen if you run>control ?

Cosimo · 8 Feb 2008 at 16:30

Try this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936686/en-us

crazyDAJT · 8 Feb 2008 at 16:45

so is it NERO that is screwing it up then??? don't understand that,

anyway, restarted my PC, it came back again, then updated windows restarted and lost it again.

crazyDAJT · 9 Feb 2008 at 14:59

Hi all

i found this on another forum, gave it a try and it worked.

It appears as though Vista is running in reduced functionality mode. There is something that i was able to do to get the control panel back. I simply run services.msc and locate the Software Licensing service and restart it. It will restart the Readyboost service as well because it relies on the SL service. But then the control panel is back and all functionality is too.[/url]

JackRegan · 9 Feb 2008 at 21:14

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/wd-raptor-nvidia-g80-dont-play-nice-with-vista,review-2336.html

Same with me. The hotfix doesn't work, however, I have installed SP1 which seems to have done the trick.

If you stop the service 'Software licensing' and start it again this will fix it until you next reboot.

crazyDAJT · 9 Feb 2008 at 22:01

JackRegan said:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/wd-raptor-nvidia-g80-dont-play-nice-with-vista,review-2336.html

Same with me. The hotfix doesn't work, however, I have installed SP1 which seems to have done the trick.

If you stop the service 'Software licensing' and start it again this will fix it until you next reboot.

the hot fix has worked for me, and I'm not having any problems with vista, so i don't mind waiting until SP1 is publicly available.