I recently (three weeks ago) bought a Dell Dimension 9200 (E520 in the US)
running Vista Home Premium. Writing here from Hong Kong, but not able to find
anything on the local Dell site, and the local support people have only
suggested reinstalling Windows, which is less than helpful as I've already
stored a mass of stuff on the hard disk. Not yet found anything on the Dell
US forums either so hoped I might find some help here.

The problem began with "Missing operating system". After a couple of weeks
running with no trouble, I shut the machine down and tried to boot up a few
hours later and got the "Missing operating system" message. After running all
the hardware diagnotics from the F12 boot options menu, which all passed, I
eventually found the Repair System feature on the Dell reinstallation disk
and this fixed the problem and I can now boot into Windows OK. But now
there's another problem. I can't log into any of the user accounts. I just
get this message:
"SLUI.exe - Application Failure
Application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002). Click OK to
terminate the program."

I know this is something to do with the notification and activation service
and if I don't clear the error message, once the computer has connected to
the internet a message comes up to say my copy of Windows is not genuine. I
can boot into Safe Mode, so long as its not Safe Mode with Networking (that
tells me I need to activate my copy of Windows). Seems like whatever file or
piece of information that identifies my Windows as a genuine activated copy
is now missing, corrupted or in the wrong place.

Can't find anything on the forum for this. I really don't want to re-install
everything. Can anyone help?

There is a lot about that if you type slui.exe in Goggle search.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"ceebyjeeby" <ceebyjeeby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7895E276-903D-444F-9009-72B8B2B4991D@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I recently (three weeks ago) bought a Dell Dimension 9200 (E520 in the US)
> running Vista Home Premium. Writing here from Hong Kong, but not able to
> find
> anything on the local Dell site, and the local support people have only
> suggested reinstalling Windows, which is less than helpful as I've already
> stored a mass of stuff on the hard disk. Not yet found anything on the
> Dell
> US forums either so hoped I might find some help here.
>
> The problem began with "Missing operating system". After a couple of weeks
> running with no trouble, I shut the machine down and tried to boot up a
> few
> hours later and got the "Missing operating system" message. After running
> all
> the hardware diagnotics from the F12 boot options menu, which all passed,
> I
> eventually found the Repair System feature on the Dell reinstallation disk
> and this fixed the problem and I can now boot into Windows OK. But now
> there's another problem. I can't log into any of the user accounts. I just
> get this message:
> "SLUI.exe - Application Failure
> Application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002). Click OK to
> terminate the program."
>
> I know this is something to do with the notification and activation
> service
> and if I don't clear the error message, once the computer has connected to
> the internet a message comes up to say my copy of Windows is not genuine.
> I
> can boot into Safe Mode, so long as its not Safe Mode with Networking
> (that
> tells me I need to activate my copy of Windows). Seems like whatever file
> or
> piece of information that identifies my Windows as a genuine activated
> copy
> is now missing, corrupted or in the wrong place.
>
> Can't find anything on the forum for this. I really don't want to
> re-install
> everything. Can anyone help?[/color]

"ceebyjeeby" <ceebyjeeby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7895E276-903D-444F-9009-72B8B2B4991D@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I recently (three weeks ago) bought a Dell Dimension 9200 (E520 in the US)
> running Vista Home Premium. Writing here from Hong Kong, but not able to
> find
> anything on the local Dell site, and the local support people have only
> suggested reinstalling Windows, which is less than helpful as I've already
> stored a mass of stuff on the hard disk. Not yet found anything on the
> Dell
> US forums either so hoped I might find some help here.
>
> The problem began with "Missing operating system". After a couple of weeks
> running with no trouble, I shut the machine down and tried to boot up a
> few
> hours later and got the "Missing operating system" message. After running
> all
> the hardware diagnotics from the F12 boot options menu, which all passed,
> I
> eventually found the Repair System feature on the Dell reinstallation disk
> and this fixed the problem and I can now boot into Windows OK. But now
> there's another problem. I can't log into any of the user accounts. I just
> get this message:
> "SLUI.exe - Application Failure
> Application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002). Click OK to
> terminate the program."
>
> I know this is something to do with the notification and activation
> service
> and if I don't clear the error message, once the computer has connected to
> the internet a message comes up to say my copy of Windows is not genuine.
> I
> can boot into Safe Mode, so long as its not Safe Mode with Networking
> (that
> tells me I need to activate my copy of Windows). Seems like whatever file
> or
> piece of information that identifies my Windows as a genuine activated
> copy
> is now missing, corrupted or in the wrong place.
>
> Can't find anything on the forum for this. I really don't want to
> re-install
> everything. Can anyone help?[/color]


You could try these 2 commands in sequence.

regsvr32 /u %SystemRoot%\System32\SLUI.exe
regsvr32 %SystemRoot%\System32\SLUI.exe

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Jon

"Jon" <Email_Address@SomewhereOrOther.com> wrote in message
news:eEED%23A5WHHA.5068@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> "ceebyjeeby" <ceebyjeeby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7895E276-903D-444F-9009-72B8B2B4991D@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>>I recently (three weeks ago) bought a Dell Dimension 9200 (E520 in the US)
>> running Vista Home Premium. Writing here from Hong Kong, but not able to
>> find
>> anything on the local Dell site, and the local support people have only
>> suggested reinstalling Windows, which is less than helpful as I've
>> already
>> stored a mass of stuff on the hard disk. Not yet found anything on the
>> Dell
>> US forums either so hoped I might find some help here.
>>
>> The problem began with "Missing operating system". After a couple of
>> weeks
>> running with no trouble, I shut the machine down and tried to boot up a
>> few
>> hours later and got the "Missing operating system" message. After running
>> all
>> the hardware diagnotics from the F12 boot options menu, which all passed,
>> I
>> eventually found the Repair System feature on the Dell reinstallation
>> disk
>> and this fixed the problem and I can now boot into Windows OK. But now
>> there's another problem. I can't log into any of the user accounts. I
>> just
>> get this message:
>> "SLUI.exe - Application Failure
>> Application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002). Click OK to
>> terminate the program."
>>
>> I know this is something to do with the notification and activation
>> service
>> and if I don't clear the error message, once the computer has connected
>> to
>> the internet a message comes up to say my copy of Windows is not genuine.
>> I
>> can boot into Safe Mode, so long as its not Safe Mode with Networking
>> (that
>> tells me I need to activate my copy of Windows). Seems like whatever file
>> or
>> piece of information that identifies my Windows as a genuine activated
>> copy
>> is now missing, corrupted or in the wrong place.
>>
>> Can't find anything on the forum for this. I really don't want to
>> re-install
>> everything. Can anyone help?[/color]
>
>
> You could try these 2 commands in sequence.
>
> regsvr32 /u %SystemRoot%\System32\SLUI.exe
> regsvr32 %SystemRoot%\System32\SLUI.exe
>
> --
> Jon[/color]

BTW you can forget that post. That won't work.

But your non-genuine screen is likely to be related to SLUI.exe, since
SLUI.exe contains this particular method..

Sub LaunchNonGenuineUI(pApplicationId As stdole.GUID, pComponentId As
stdole.GUID)

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Jon

> BTW you can forget that post. That won't work.[color=blue]
>
> But your non-genuine screen is likely to be related to SLUI.exe, since
> SLUI.exe contains this particular method..
>
> Sub LaunchNonGenuineUI(pApplicationId As stdole.GUID, pComponentId As
> stdole.GUID)
>
> --
> Jon
>[/color]
Jon and Richard, thanks for the posts. Nothing else from posts on other
forums. I had already looked on Google and although lots on SLUI.exe nothing
I've found seems relevant to my problem - mostly stuff from people trying RC1
it seems. So.... just backing everything up now from Safe Mode in prep for a
re-installation.