bookie32

Sorry, as you said..your opinion.... I can't see FreeBSD as a viable option as long as there is the development team across the planet for different Linux versions....I tried for a while to use FreeNas as a home server and just gave up....just a pain... I will go as far as to add I haven't tried TrueOS and will because of your being such a great fan.... bookie32

Well, isn't that what I have been saying all along...How can something be so good with so many problems... the idea that Microsoft after all the time they spent on development of Windows 10 can produce something that is far from ready for the open market....but still shove it down our throats with either an upgrade or recommended update is just priceless...long live Microsoft with this attitude.... bookie32

Love the use of the crap word...;)

Nice fix! Thank you!

Hej guys! Have a customer computer that has just the start button...no explorer etc... I have tried to add explorer "pin to taskbar" but not getting that option? Has anyone any idea how to reset the taskbar? bookie32

Well, why should Microsoft care....? It would be a first.....Microsoft haven't got the first idea of good practice...."The customer is always right"...It is probably likely that thousands of computers across the planet have died because of Windows 10...and now we have there own that doesn't come up to any reliable standard...?!! And..to top it all they are palming off thes crappy computers with huge reductions...One thought it was a campaign to sell more Windows 10 computers - but turns out to be away of getting rid of a bad product....;) bookie32

Hi guys! Has anyone any idea how I can run a batch file to remove all the . msu files from the directory that comes with them when we download them manually, so that all the .msu files are collected in one place? bookie32

As another member living in Sweden I have been seeing these ploys to increase sales... bookie32

Windows 10? Is that a new OS? If so....never heard of it....

Hi guys! Just a little update here! As I suspected my customer was wrong about the computer coming with Windows 8.0..Just received the "Recovery" dvd's and they are for Windows 8.1... At least that clears up one nagging thing...;) bookie32

I understand perfectly what you are saying and it was an exercise in seeing what works more than acutually using it... I usually build the images from scratch - but I confess in this instance I was looking for a quick solution... As I said, I know better than give a sytem activated with the wrong license and don't intend to... Thanks for all your help any way...I have learnt a little more about dism and UEFI...every little helps... bookie32

Hi again! Am I rambling...sign of my age...sorry! 1. I have a test computer that I have created a syprep version av Win 8.0 2. Have a customer that came with a computer that had crashed....turned out the hard drive was dead..His computer originally came with Win8.0 but he had upgraded to Windows 10 before it crashed. 3. I installed an new drive in the customer computer and used my sypreped version of Win 8.0 to install his computer....In the beginning it was having a problem activating but I left it alone and installed some updates and then saw it had activated - BUT when I looked at the activation ID it was the same as the test computer. 4. I used OEMkey from NeoSmart to retrieve the keys for both computers...from the bios 5. The customer's computer has activated with the key from the test computer? This should not be possible? 6. The key from the customer's computer is for Win 8.1 - but the customer is sure it was 8.0 when he bought it...he could be mistaken...will know as soon as the replacement media comes. 7. I have erased the key from the customer's computer and tried to activate his key and that is when I started getting errors... Like I said the key from the customer's computer is for Win 8.1 and if Microsoft can't change these settings then my customer is misstaken and had Win 8.1 when he bought it.. Just like to know how the key from the test computer has activated in the customer's ...if as Microsoft point out you can't move OEM keys to new computers... I have now two computers with the same key being used but are OEM?! Does that make sense...? booke32

Hi again! OK! Sorry I have been an id***...I thought I could build a syspereped image from a computer that was with an OEM installation...but obviously it still retains information even after running sysprep? The computer has "activated" with the same ID has the test computer which in theory shouldn't happen especially when Microsoft are saying the bios key is for reduced piracy... I ran these codes to see if I could get it to work: I did this to remove the computer ID:(Not the actual ID from this computer) slmgr /dlv slmgr /upk 507660dd-3fc4-4df2-81f5b559467ad56b I actually tried to install the key from the bios - but this is when the error started slmgr /ipk ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** So I tried to clean everything: slmgr /upk slmgr.vbs /cpky slmgr /ckms slmgr.vbs /ckms slmgr /skms localhost But after installing an update the activation with the test computer's ID installed again... And Microsoft in their infinite wisdom think this stops piracy...???!!! I have an activated computer with the test computer's key?! I have checked the last few digits in the newly installed computer and the key matches the test computer?! What is the point of Sysprep if this happens? Obvioulsly I can't give the computer back to the customer like this...even though it is working .... I have ordered the original OEM from the manufacturer and that will come in a day or two... Just that this was never a problem building a sysprep version with windows 7... bookie32 P. S. I have also discovered that the key in the test computer is (from the bios) and it is Win8.1 although the computer was installed with Win8.0 from factory?! I have upgraded the test computer to Win8.1. Does this mean that Win8.1 writes over the original in the bios because, as I have pointed out, it did come with Win8.0... Of course what really makes this interesting...I haven't even added the Win8.1 upgrade to the newly installed computer - but it has activated with a Win8.1 license?! I think I will go and eat worms....

Hi again! Could have run into a snag...My customer came with his laptop and it had been upgraded to Windows 10.. Windows 10 has killed the drive, so I have installed a new ssd drive...with my syspreped Win8.0 and it wont activate...I have the key from the bios and it wont accept it... Question! Does the upgrade to Windows 10 set a new key in the bios and erase the old one? The code I have had seems to be more to do with Windows 10 activation problems... The original system was Windows 8.0 and not Pro... Just wonder if the upgrade f****s with the bios key? bookie32

Hi Tripredacus! Now that definitely looks better than my attempts! Thank you!! Martyn

Yes, lot of what you have written I do know but have worked mostly with mbr...I have tried adding the "System" partition and formatting it with fat32 and then just creating the system drive... I copied the boot files and no errors but still no boot drive found after rebooting... I haven't an original dvd at the moment and is why I wanted to use a sysprep image.. bookie32

Hi Jaclaz! I must be missing something here... This is a laptop with UEFI and I thought that usually they are GPT The drive died and I have a Win8.0.wim that I can use just wasn't sure of the procedure for creating partitions from winpe with dism.. If you are telling me that I have lost the plot...then fine...please explain how a standard install is created when installing Windows 8.0...doesn't the installation create GPT automatically? I have not worked much with Windows 8 or 10 fram scratch using a .wim... Thanks!

Hi guys! Well, the "active" parameter obviously doesn't work because of it being gpt... The other problem is : bcdboot w:\windows /l sv-SE The above doesn't work? I have the drive as "w" label=Windows but something is wrong...any ideas?

Hi guys! Been fortunate to have been left a Windows 8 laptop which the customer didn't want... I have now used it to create a sysprepped version of Windows 8.0 and capture it to a .wim. My question is this: I haven't used dism before and am unsure of the commands that will tell me exactly what I want to know... To prepare the new hard drive I have: select disk 0 clean Convert gpt create partition primary size=350 format quick fs=ntfs label=System assign letter=S active create partition primary format quick fs=ntfs label=Windows assign letter=W exit I can then use dism to transfer and apply my .wim to the new drive: dism /apply-image /imagefile:h\win8\Win8.wim /index:1 /applydir:w:\ h is in this case my usb drive attached... Now I am unsure of the commands for adding boot drivers to my s partition? Below I am using the Swedish driver... bcdboot W:\Windows /l sv-SE Am I missing anything or should that work? bookie32

Well, sorry to be repetitive... I am like many others very disappointed with the boring desktop in Windows 10...the excuse that the icons are meant to look good on all platforms and load faster in telephones is just a joke...as I have pointed out before we are getting larger and larger screens and higher resolutions for our computers and all they worry about is a bloody telephone!! The spying side of this has narked me from the begining and still does... Windows 10 as shown on many threads isn't any quicker and in many cases slower....!!! Thousands of computers have just died because of this crap!! I have had just lots of hassle with Windows 10 even on new computers that come with it preinstalled....just a big pile of s***!! Please excuse me...ranting again...;) bookie32

Yes, I can agree on that...when you are used to a type of software for a long time...while I can agree that Libre isn't perfect...it is a start and an attempt by the open Source community to give the customer options...needs more work...yes! Who knows the current climate regarding what Microsoft is doing/done/about to do might just prompt even better development in the Open Source community to help put Microsoft in a large coffin about a hundred miles down where it is quite warm...I am told (no personal experience...) bookie32

Hi guys! Well, open source is the only way forward. there is a mountain of knowledge out there far better than anything Microsoft can produce...just needs support... What files are we actually talking about...because there are already open source programs/software that support certain Microsoft products even if Microsoft are not very positive about it... Linux and BSD are already far superior than anything Microsoft can produce and Windows 10 is a certain front runner in the category of being out and out crap!! bookie32

Hi guys! Well, one does get tired of authorities dismissing peoples concerns by using the standard reply: Doesn't it just want to make you puke!!! This has nothing to do with whether we have something to hide or not...just plain wrong...how ever you word it... bookie32

Well, for what it's worth...one thing I have learned over the years is if you let Microsoft fix the updates ....that is a sure fired way to f*** up your system and ...I am sorry I am not wathching my language... This has been one of the main issues (in my opinion...for what it is worth) that many computers have stopped working after installing Windows 10... Microsoft come with the updates for hardware that they recommend and then the computer stops working properly...I have seen it time amd time again...and it is us nutters that have computer repair computers that are left with the job of fixing things if it is possible... I don't really think we have ever seen a genuine comment of what the intent for releasing Windows 10 was and is.... For the sake of repeating myself... if this disreputable giant of a corporation had had any respect for the users of there system...that pay good money to have computers with it installed ...then they would have gone out and genuinely told people what the risks were for the upgrade ...then even fewer would have jumped on the bandwagon and installed it. But then again if they were a respectable company they wouldn't have sent it out as an update that many just ignored not realising that it would be installed as a recommended update at a particular time...and ended up with the crap on their systems... I am sick to death of trying to fix older versions with updates that Microsoft basically doesn't want to exist... Even though I am just a one man band....most of my customers have realised the error of their ways and reinstated older versions again...as I said most of them I should have put....aprart from them that tried and the computers just didn't work after that....but they..with my help went out and bought Windows 7 computers again with the option to upgrade to either 8.1 or 10 in the future if it ever becomes anything worth while... My question is are they really going to continue with this crap and for what reason.....and please, please, don't anyone say because they are genuine and thinking to the future for the best for their customers..not going to buy that ever after what I have seen the last few months.... bookie32

Hi guys! Well, I second the motion to resurrect Windows 7.... There done and dustered...just need the id*** at Microsoft to agree... bookie32