Windows 10: Deactivated Location Service to reactivate

Hi, In my HP notebook it is noticed that 'Location' in the settings under Privacy of the device is remaining OFF since sometime past and could not activate it again to use Cortana utility and other GPS facilities. Under Time & Language of the settings the language has already been installed as US (English) but Location has remained deactivated. Kindly advise to resolve the issue

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Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 10 upgrade - no system restore and no GPEDIT.MSC

A tip when you have dozens of entries deactivated in clean boot, and want to find the offender quickly:

• Reactivate half of the entries
• If the issue occurrs, deactivate half of what you reactivated
• If the issue doesn't occur, activate half of what you left deactivated
• Keep splitting these groups in half until you've zeroed in on the culprit

This is much quicker than testing the entries one by one.

For the current issue, you may be able to find an event log entry for the program or service that causes the issue: Windows key+x->Event log; see under Windows-logs\Applications and .\System.

/Åke

 

Unable to open microsoft calculator app

I've been deactivating services that I thought to be useless for me, willing to increase my pc's performance. However I may have deactivated a service needed to run the microsoft calculator app. I went to the Windows Store and tried to install the app
again, but it failed to do so, popping an error message with code 0x8004E10E. I tried using Windows troubleshooter and DISM.exe, both times without success. Which service do I need to reactivate so I can use the calculator again?

 

Hi, this from Cliff S of this forum a long time back may help, which is amongst my saved solutions:

Thanks to some useful info provided by Forum user Cliff S, my PC is now fixed!

The issue was linked to location services, which need to be set to "on" in the Action Centre. When I attempted to do this, I found the option was greyed out, which lead to looking at which services were currently running (via "Services.msc"). It transpired that "Geolocation service" was disabled, and I was unable to restart it. A bit of Googling took me to an MS support site, which said this was a known issue with Win 10:


"Geolocation

After disabling the Geolocation Service by changing startup type to Disabled, attempts to re-enable it will fail with an error message. As the Geolocation Service can no longer be started, Geolocation will remain disabled on the device and prevent location based functionality from working. To work around this issue, manually delete the following regkey using regedit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lfsvc\TriggerInfo\3."

I edited the registry as described, and sure enough, after a re-boot, the Geolocation service could then be started. I opened MS Config, and made sure it was set to run at startup, re-booted again, and once Win 10 had started up, my "Location" button was live, along with an all singing and dancing Cortana.

 

Many thanks Dalchina for your valued reply, but I'm bit scared about tinkering with the Registry keys due to some bad past lessons ! In the event of any mishap I'll have to do nothing but to go for a system recovery which I don't want to. .

 

Hi, that fixed it for me months back. I understand your concern, so act defensively. Here's how to protect yourself.

Bear in mind you can make sure System Restore is enabled, and set a restore point. If sthg goes wrong, you can use the restore point to recover.

And you can also manually back up (export) the part of the registry before you change it- just put the reg file on your desktop, say. Then if sthg goes wrong, you can merge back that reg file.

Then do the edit.

Or get your neighbourhood 14 year-old tech geek to help (well, you know what I mean..*Smile)

Now, everyone should use disk imaging. Routinely. That
- lets you make a compressed copy of your disk/partition
- lets you restore your PC to exactly how it was, relatively quickly, saving your time, sanity and a call for technical assistance
- creates a complete backup from which you can recover files
- lets you replace your disk even if it fails
- recover easily from ransomware

etc

So start using disk imaging- Macrium Reflect (free) is highly recommended here, plus its boot medium + external storage for the backups.

Create an image before you do the reg. edit.

 

Thank you so much ! .......very very scared ! Well, a sense of 'go ahead' is playing around though but.... ...let's see !!!

 

Hi, Getting no alternatives I've decided to follow your advice deleting the specified keys in the Registry. But I'm not sure about the following points and I request you kind help to get it done :
1. Shall I've to delete the same keys from CURRENT_LOCAL_USER also AND which one should be deleted first i.e., LOCAL_MACHINE or LOCAL_USER ?
2. A detailed procedure for placing 'Geolocation' in the StartUp may kindly be explained as I tried to create a shortcut but couldn't get the path of StartUp file.