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0xC0EA0004: ERROR_CLIP_LICENSE_INVALID_SIGNATURE

Windows Error Code Lookup: Decode Windows error codes: Win32, HRESULT (0x80070005), NTSTATUS, Windows Update, msiexec and blue-screen stop codes, with what to check next.

Paste the number from an error dialog, event log, script or setup log: 0x80070005, 80070005, -2147024891, 1603, 0xC0000005, a stop code like 0x7E, a name like E_ACCESSDENIED, or a few words. You get every way Windows could mean that number (an HRESULT often wraps a Win32 error, so 0x80070005 is "Access is denied" too), its parts decoded, and what to check for the common ones. Names and messages come from the Windows SDK headers and Windows' own message tables; see Microsoft's System Error Codes and [MS-ERREF] for the full references.

Try: 0x80070005, 1603, 0xC0000005, 0x800F081F, 0x8024402C, 0x7E, access denied

0xC0EA0004 = 3,236,560,900 = -1058406396

HRESULT 0xC0EA0004

ERROR_CLIP_LICENSE_INVALID_SIGNATURE

CLiP license has an invalid signature.

Severity (bit 31)1: failure
Customer (bit 29)0: Microsoft
NTSTATUS inside (bit 28)0
Facility234 (0x0EA) USERMODE_LICENSING
Code4 (0x0004)

NTSTATUS 0xC0EA0004

STATUS_CLIP_LICENSE_INVALID_SIGNATURE

CLiP license has an invalid signature.

Becomes the Win32 error: 3236560900

Severity (bits 30-31)3: Error
Customer (bit 29)0: Microsoft
Facility234 (0x0EA) LICENSING
Code4 (0x0004)