Disaster Recovery - 'Software Protection' Error

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After performing a Disaster Recovery of a Windows system you may see the following Windows event viewer errors in the application log:

"Failed to schedule Software Protection service for re-start at 2116-06-30T14:18:33Z. Error Code: 0x80070005."

To fix the issue you can do the following:

1. Back up all files in the directory:

C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\SoftwareProtectionPlatform

1. Add an XML extension to the files in the SoftwareProtectionPlatform folder
2. Navigate to:

Computer Management->System Tools->Task Scheduler->Task Scheduler Library->Microsoft->Windows->SoftwareProtectionPlatform

1. Right-click on each task and select Delete
2. Right-click on "SoftwareProtectionPlatform", Import Task, and import each of the files that you renamed. Don’t worry if they don’t appear in the Task List.
3. Navigate to Computer Management→Services and Applications→Services and restart the Software Protection service
4. Check the Event Viewer to verify that the errors have stopped
5. Delete the XML files in the "SoftwareProtectionPlatform" folder

Last Update: March 8, 2021