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I am getting the following error in Office 2013. My software is licensed but it gives this error and exit:
Microsoft office can't find your license for this application. a repair attempt was unsuccessful or was cancelled.
A family of Microsoft spreadsheet software with tools for analyzing, charting, and communicating data.
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Hi Michael,
My problem was solved after restarting/starting SOFTWARE PROTECTION service in windows 8, that service was stopped and its behaviour was Automatic(Delayed Start). So i just start that service and error gone. YOu try this as well.
how to turn on or off the restarting/starting SOFTWARE PROTECTION service
Just wanted to say that I found this forum having had the same problem myself and when I opened up Software Protection as described above it said that it had stopped. I am not sure how it restarted - but it did and when it said Software Protecttion was running instead of stopped I no longer had the problem with the microsoft apps - so this was definitely the cause but how it resolved itself I have no idea!
just double click on it then change the value to "0"
and you must change the value of these below item
start: 2
type: 20
I tried, and it worked.
Mr. Pinherio,
How do we change the value?