Windows 10: Software Protection Service cannot start due to a registry issue

I had to do a System Restore recently. Everything went fine except that I was soon greeted by the "Activate Windows" overlay. Tried to activate Windows, error code 0xc0000022. Turns out the System Protection Service won't start due to being denied access to certain files. I used Process Monitor to find out which and fixed the permission issues.There seems to only be one Access Denied left according to Process Monitor. It appears that when I try to start it, SPPSVC.exe goes through all the keys in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA. The folder has 103 keys in it who all share the same name but end i

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Software protection service cannot start

Hi. My windows 10 is facing an issue that the software protection service (sppsvc) cannot start (or just show "starting"and then "stoped").

when I check the log, there is an Event ID 7000 and it states "the software protection service failed to start due to following error: the service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion".

i also tried to start it mannually, and got error 1053.

Anyone can help me, please

thank you in advance.

 

Software Protection Service Wont Start

The software protection service (sppsvc) will not start.
When I try to run this command: "net start sppsvc" in an administrator command prompt I get this error:
"The Software Protection service could not be started. A system error has occurred. System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied."

I have tried taking ownership of sppsvc.exe in System32 and setting this registry entry's permissions to full access "Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SoftwareProtectionPlatform".
Windows version 1909

 

Software protection service cannot start

This did not solve my problem.

The Software Protection service failed to start due to the following error:

The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

The system appers to be fried. Now windows, which has been activated for over a year now says it can no be activated.

The detecting activation problems hangs and will not complete.