Error starting Windows Security Server
Monday, February 4, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Posted by Glen T
(7 messages posted)
I have a relatively old piece of software that uses a parallel port dongle for copy
protection. Note that this post is NOT about breaking copy protection. The software
was written for Windows 3.11. The drivers for the dongle assume that they have full
control over the LPT port.
I am trying to run this software on an old Windows 98 machine. The software runs
intermittently, but most of the time it fails at startup with the message "Error
starting Windows Security Server" which comes from the dongle driver. It appears
that Windows "owns" the LTP port and won't release it to the driver. Running the
dongle driver by itself sometimes produces an error message to this effect, along
with a dialog that lets me choose to hand control of the LPT port over to the dongle
driver.
Is there some way of configuring the LTP port in Windows 98 to force Windows to give
control of LPT1 to the dongle driver?
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