Windows 10: Application license lost after Windows updates – anyone else facing registry-related issues?

I’ve been facing an issue with a third-party application where its license gets lost and the software reverts to unlicensed mode after certain Windows updates. This has happened repeatedly, particularly after the Windows updates released in February and March 2025.On contacting the vendor, it was indicated that the application uses the Windows registry to store license information, and it appears that some updates may be impacting or clearing those entries. As a result, the license needs to be reactivated manually each time.Has anyone else experienced similar behavior with other applications?W

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Application related

Hi Suresh,

For us to better assist you, we need to ask a few questions:

• What application were you trying to open?
• Were there any changes made before experiencing this issue?
• Does the same issue happen when you access your account from a different computer?
• What troubleshooting steps have you tried so far?
  

When you receive an application-related error message like "esrv.exe not executing properly", it is likely that you registry has suffered fragmentation and has accumulated invalid entries which affects your computer's performance. To help resolve this issue,
you would need to clean your registry.

Looking forward to your reply so we can find the best solution for you.

Thank you.

 

Facing issue with this Windows Update

Hello all. Whenever I open Windows Update I get this update listed in my optional updates. If you can see this is quite an old outdated update and even if I check it and install it. It does not go away and keep lurking in the optional updates can someone please help me how to get rid of this.

 

Registry Key for Activity related to Motion.

Listed here as a 'privacy' setting
Registry Keys for Windows 10 Application Privacy Settings - Jose Espitia

That set of keys - but 'activity' is not listed here:
Windows10_defaults/AdditionalSettings.cmd at master . Carm01/Windows10_defaults . GitHub

This is the only 'activity' policy- whether it's related to that key you could determine by experiment: