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Someone brought me a Win 8 system that gives a UAC prompt when moving files within the user directory, say from Pictures to a subfolder or the Desktop. It would seem ownership/permissions have been screwed up. I ran the Tweaking.com repair tool to reset permissions (only option was the entirety of C:\ so it took forever) and it seemed to fix the problem temporarily, but must have un-fixed after a reboot. Malware scans are coming up clean, starting to suspect the user account has been corrupted but need a second opinion.
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18 minutes ago, dencorso said:
Please feel free to go ahead and make it so.
Couldn't find a way to contact him on GitHub but I sent him a private message on Voat.
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8 hours ago, Mcinwwl said:
Far past time, but I'm afraid there is no simple way to hide updates. Look Here. As if the couldn't add some /hide switch to Wusa...
Personally I did try to automatize it using Powershell script and some community-provided modules on Win 7 pro 64 bit, but soon decided I'll do it faster by hand. PS under 7 has no Cmdlets for managing updates, and the ones found in the internet were far from being perfect.
I've had great luck with the aegis tool mentioned in the original post. No longer being maintained due to some beef the creator has with Voat, which is a strange place for it. Perhaps someone wants to invite him over to this thread?
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Is there a command or tool for blacklisting updates without waiting literally HOURS for Windows Update to just give the list of what's available and manually hiding them?
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Just did a clean install of Windows XP Pro SP3 on an older HP laptop...it's got at least a 2GHz P4 and less than 512MB of RAM (will have to post back with the exact amount). Nevertheless, I was able to reduce memory usage by disabling non-critical services, and it runs great until the svchost process suddenly overloads the CPU and I have to terminate it in task manager. I understand svchost is a service host process, which leads me to wonder if tweaking the services is what created the problem in the first place. It's weird though, because I've done it on a dozen machines with great results and never once had this problem. Is there a way to see which particular service is causing this CPU overload, or a fix that I'm unaware of?
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I would dare
t o add that the OP:Trying to do a clean install of Win7 x64 on an Acer Aspire 8951G for a friend whose hard drive crashed and was replaced under warranty.
without further details, normally implies that the replacement hard disk was a brand new, unpartitioned and unformatted one.
The evolution of the thread seems to imply - strangely enough - that not only the "replacement" hard disk was an used/recycled one, but also an "untested" one
.Additionally, the "replacement" disk evidently had some failure of some kind (of whatever extents/relevance cannot obviously say) as besides being partitioned/formatted it was left with the filesystem in a "dirty" state.
If the disk was actually replaced under warranty I would - before anything else - question the provider of the warranty, give them back the "replacement" hard disk and downright require a brand new (in a sealed box) hard disk or a refurbished AND certified one (depending on what the warranty covers, and how it covers it).
Pretty sure I partitioned and formatted it beforehand, however this machine was having some odd power issues and I may have unplugged it on my first attempt not knowing that it wasn't recognizing the battery, thereby flagging the partition as dirty.
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Ah, solved it. Booted into Linux and discovered there was a dirty NTFS partition, so I reformatted and now it's installing. Still, it seems like setup should at least show me the partition layout.
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Maybe a BETTER question is HOW you're trying to install them (you never REALLY said)?
The window that asks where to install the operating system has a "Load Driver" option below the (empty) list of hard drives. I extracted the SATA AHCI drivers to a flash drive but since they are unsigned, it won't allow me to install them.
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From here? Generally speaking Chipset Drivers should be installed first anyway...
edit - does this help?
Yes, I tried that one and a driver direct from Intel. That article assumes that Window is already installed, but I'm getting stuck at the initial OS install. I'm installing Windows 7 from a flash drive, is it possible to modify boot options for setup to allow unsigned drivers?
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Trying to do a clean install of Win7 x64 on an Acer Aspire 8951G for a friend whose hard drive crashed and was replaced under warranty. Stuck at square one, however, since the installer refuses to see the hard drive. I've tried setting it to IDE mode in the BIOS and attempted to install the Intel SATA drivers from within setup, which gives me unsigned driver errors and won't allow me to force install.
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I wouldn't really recommend installing Win2k on a machine with only 128 MB of RAM. Unless you plan to slim it down very heavily (I managed to make it use only ~35 MB of memory though extreme nLiting) the system will eat up more than 50% of the available memory, and even more after you've installed all the drivers. Personally I'd just stick to Win98...
Technically the system requirements specify 32MB minimum, 128MB recommended. In my experience, Win2k runs pretty decently on that amount of RAM (unless you try to run the newest Firefox or LibreOffice) but it's definitely worth checking which services can be disabled to really make it fly.
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Had to use Dam Small Linux since this Compaq Armada 3500 has only 128MB of RAM. I tried to USB boot with PLOP, which I have on floppy and the UBCD but it just locks up. Thanks for the feedback, I'll have a look at those links.
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Trying to upgrade a customer's laptop from Windows 98 to 2000. I got past the initial pre-setup stage, but when it reboots to the actual setup to copy files from the disc, it won't read ANY of them and I keep getting "setup cannot copy the file..." errors. I booted into Linux and copied the contents of the install CD from a flash drive to a folder on the hard drive but it doesn't give me the option to select it as the source. So I need some kind of no CD workaround, perhaps just re-creating the directory the setup files get copied to and just telling it to skip when it gives an error.
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Trying to install system updates on a machine running Vista Home Premium and getting error 80070490 during the SP2 update. A quick Google search brought me to the Update Readiness Tool, but even after that installs successfully I get the same error when attempting to install SP2. I tried resetting Windows Update with Tweaking.com Windows Repair hoping to see some missed prerequisites show up but nada.
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I just did a "quick and dirty" hard drive clone, in other words the machine had a failing hard drive and normal cloning software (HDClone and Clonezilla) couldn't clone it, which only left me with the option of copying the files to an NTFS partition on the new drive. It's booting but unfortunately this method has broken some system shortcuts, such as "All Users" and "Default User" in the C:\Users directory, as well as the ones in user directories (Cookies, Application Data, Local Settings, Start Menu, NetHood, etc.). Is there any sort of utility or Windows function that can automatically repair these?
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Try this.
edit - PLEASE give the EXACT message you are getting, letter-for-letter! A search reveals little since you have both truncated and abbreviated the specific messages. Without that I can assist no longer.
BTW, just "switching" between various versions / builds (CDvsDVD) won't do a lot of good. You have updated your MCE with SP3 and no known way of accurately slipstreaming SP3 onto any RTM/OEM has been done (AFAIK). I think if you check on that, you'll find that the System expects a SP3 CD installation. Search the WWW on the subject of SFC against XP Home/Pro (not MCE) that was initially installed with (e.g.) SP2 then had SP3 applied then an SFC run to get my drift.
"Insert your Windows XP Professional CD2 now."
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SFC will always ask for "originals" unless...
(see this post#8)
Besides, what do you think is on CD#2? Ever look?
Similar to upgrading a standard SP2 install to SP3... "newer" files are in a different place.
And now that I think about it, I believe your first post may be incomplete - is it asking for "CD2" or "Service Pack 2"???
At one point SFC asked me for XP Pro SP2 and took the disc no problem, but at the very end of the scan it wants XP Pro CD2. Doesn't specify a version and I've tried single DVD as well as two-CD sets of MCE.
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or are you referring to installing SP3 on top of MCE2002? Still, won't work unless you can manage to slip MCE2002 up to v2004 then apply any necessary "fixes". (haven't yet tried it).
Yes, I was referring to a system running MCE 2002 that has been updated to SP3. It seems a bit odd that it would ask for the original disc instead of just accepting one with newer versions of the system files.
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MCE is a 2-CD set (or a single "merged" DVD of the two CD's with appropriate SIF/INF changes). The first CD is just XP Pro and the second is the MCE additional software.
What version (2002, 2004, 2005?) and what is the disk source?
The most recent machine I'm getting stuck on is running version 2002 with SP3.
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It seems every time I run system file checker (SFC) on a machine running Windows Media Center, at some point I get prompted to insert "Windows XP Professional CD2" which to my knowledge doesn't exist. I've tried various XP MCE discs as well as XP Pro discs and it rejects all of them.
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Did a virus removal on a netbook that came into the computer repair shop I work at. Can't get online because the DHCP Client service won't start: Error 1075: The dependency services does not exist or has been marked for deletion. The machine is running Norton Internet Security and a quick look at the logs showed it had removed an infected TDX.SYS file shortly before they brought it in for repair. Looked at the event log and saw that Tdx was the specific dependency service it's stumbling on. The file was still in C:\Windows\System32\Drivers so I deleted it and ran System File Checker but it still fails to start DHCP.
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I'm getting errors in Messenger saying that I need to install the latest Adobe Flash (I have 11.1 installed). When I click "install" it takes me to a broken download page for Flash 10. Webcam seems to still work though it warns I may lose functionality if I don't "upgrade". Any solution or do I just have to press cancel every single time I run the program?
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Just did a clean install of Windows XP Pro SP3 on an IBM ThinkPad that was previously having boot problems. Suddenly it's been freezing any time I shut it down -- at the "Windows is shutting down" screen. Shuts down just fine in Safe Mode, and the hard disk passed a SeaTools long test, which should effectively rule out a hardware problem. My thought was that it might be one of the IBM programs or maybe a bad driver?
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t o add that the OP:
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UAC asking permission to move files within user dir
in Windows 8
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New user account sort of fixed the problem. Most files could be moved, renamed, etc without issue but several were still giving me UAC prompts. Ended up doing a clean install and no more errors, but with my luck I'll probably encounter the issue again down the road :P