NTSTATUS 0xC0150007 (STATUS_SXS_ACTIVATION_CONTEXT

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the requested activation context is disabled and cannot be made active.

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STATUS_SXS_ACTIVATION_CONTEXT_DISABLED

The context exists but cannot be activated

STATUS_SXS_ACTIVATION_CONTEXT_DISABLED is about activation state, not manifest discovery. The process attempted to make a context active, but that context was disabled, so it cannot become the active context for the thread and its side-by-side API calls.

That makes it different from STATUS_SXS_CANT_GEN_ACTCTX, where Windows could not construct a context from manifest data at all. Preserve the handle lifetime and the path that disabled or invalidated it; rebuilding or replacing a manifest does not explain a later state change on an already-created context.

What to inspect

Trace creation, reference management, activation and disable/zombification calls for the same context handle.
Check thread boundaries: the active context is thread-associated and nested activation changes which context is on top.
Use the failure point to find the earlier state transition instead of repeatedly attempting to activate the same disabled handle.

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