jaclaz

Well, it still means that a user preference has been overridden and proves that they CAN do it . The case of the update to Windows 10 is very different there is only some (repeated) insistence on attempting to trick the user into updating (and the usual lack of clarity in communication) but all in all the user actually needs to click on "yes" to get the Windows 10 Free update (even if by mistake or not knowing the disgrace that will land on his/her PC) the 2007 episode is a clear sign that explicit user settings may (and will probably be) overridden and is more related to the risk of what future updates may be delivered and related concerns about "privacy" or however about the data sent to MS (or other partners) servers. jaclaz

Yes and no. There is a precedent (which may be seen both as of little relevance of the uttermost one ) where windows did not respect the user settings to have NO automatic updates and Windows Update was triggered nonetheless: http://windowssecrets.com/top-story/microsoft-updates-windows-without-users-consent/ http://www.informationweek.com/microsoft-updates-windows-without-user-permission-apologizes/d/d-id/1059183? http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-news-digest/microsoft-admits-to-stealth-updates/ Sure , but two different things: 1. Comparing apples and oranges is legit : http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume1/v1i3/air-1-3-apples.html 2. No matter the above and the patently obvious difference between free (as in gratis - actually forcibly pushed) vs. pay-for , NoelC has made a nice comparison: this is what MS will state, maybe changing "unprecedented success" with "biggest achievement" or similar. jaclaz

Sure, and those info have been copied to Wikipedia: http://www.firstratemold.com/about-us/c19-news/what-is-catia/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CATIA Only , original Dassault Systems documentation for CATIA V5 has this to say: http://www.catia.com.pl/tutorial/z2/infrastructure.pdf The difference being seemingly that while you can install it on a NT Workstation with it's self-standing license for 9x OS's you need a LUM : AFAICT at the time noone (in his/her right mind) would have even thought of using a Win9x System as a "working" graphical workstation, so most probably the provision was for a limited set of the program capabilities anyway. jaclaz

Though the "data points" are obviously scarce (as a matter of fact only one), this: http://gs.statcounter.com/press opens a big doubt. For the releases of Windows 7 and 8 - again rather obviously - there are no sensible differences between the US and the UK adoption rate (the fact that also the worldwide adoptions is not that much different is most probably a mere coincidence, as so many factors - including country average income and political situation affects the result). Now, Windows 10 has been adopted in the first month by more people than Windows 7 was (but one has to remember that at the time a large number of people was still shocked by Vista ) and much, much more than Windows 8. One cannot but evidence how this is an unprecedented success for Windows 10. However comparing the US vs. the UK adoption rate (and since more or less they speak the same language there re no issues with translations/regional editions) there is something disturbing. The UK adoption rate is much higher than the US (and though with a smaller increase most other English speaking countries present the same phenomenon): US 5.64% UK 8.45% And: http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-AU-monthly-201508-201508-bar AU 6.33% CA 6.49% But also some non-English speaking countries part of the industrial countries have much higher rates than the US: D 7.94% F 6.80% WHERE is patriotism? Two tentative hypothesis to explain this queer behaviour : 1. The US computing infrastructure (and consequently its market) is less ready for innovation 2. The good people of the US are either much smarter or dumber than the people in the other mentioned countries. jaclaz

But then you might start having issue with your tractor : http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/ http://www.wired.com/2015/02/new-high-tech-farm-equipment-nightmare-farmers/ jaclaz

Of course not. Interesting. Though most probably innocuous , yet another example of why a "real" external firewall is a good idea, and indirect proof that we have been forcibly put in the condition of never trusting anyone . jaclaz

Yep, I just imagine the situation at corporate parties where the theme will be strangely revolving around "mine is bigger". jaclaz

I am The Finder, there is a reason for that . Thanks , though being born modest (not all over but in spots ): http://www.quotes.net/quote/39361 I would be very happy with just the "living" (for a looong time). jaclaz

Some news from Samsung: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/03/samsung-launches-smartthings-internet-of-things-hub Just a few days after DEFCON 23 and: http://www.pentestpartners.com/blog/hacking-defcon-23s-iot-village-samsung-fridge/ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/08/using_samsungs_.html And some more (IMHO preoccupying) news: http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2015/09/9-baby-monitors-wide-open-to-hacks-that-expose-users-most-private-moments/ https://www.rapid7.com/docs/Hacking-IoT-A-Case-Study-on-Baby-Monitor-Exposures-and-Vulnerabilities.pdf jaclaz

The French way (JFYI): https://phrozensoft.com/2015/09/windows-privacy-tweaker-4 jaclaz

Sure it is a workaround (poor or not being debatable), the "feature" was implemented by the good MS guys "by design", you can sue them if you don't like it . And (still on the workaround) if you want the system to not recreate those files: http://jamesisin.com/a_high-tech_blech/index.php/2010/09/nevermore-be-bothered-by-desktop-ini/ jaclaz

Does this happen because of lack of permission or because any file is "in use"? Maybe you need to further elevate to "TrustedInstaller" to get rid of some of them from the "online" system : http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/155910-taking-back-the-registry-from-trustedinstaller/ http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/162571-running-explorer-as-trustedinstaller/ http://vorck.com/windows/ntauth.html or boot to a PE and see if you can delete the whole stuff when "offline" (and as "System"). jaclaz

System.ini ? Desktop.ini (twice, one for current user and one for the "public" desktop): http://www.7tutorials.com/why-are-there-two-desktopini-files-my-desktop-what-do-they-do Unless you use custom icons for the folder you can delete them. jaclaz

Will this driver work with a xbox 360 wireless controller? XD The idea about "to follow" may include: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/119841-xbox360-controller-driver-for-win98/page-2#entry1106321 jaclaz

And little by little existing hardware will fail and new machines will come with Windows 10, and you did not seemingly consider in the projection the success that the Surface 4 will have (at least in the perverted minds of MS executives ). At 14" it is entirely new paradigm, a tablet that is actually a (small) table and costs like an actual design table. It is obvious how this will improve readability of contents and allow to use larger Office 3641/2 spreadsheets surely accountants worldwide will rejoice. (and they will have no objections to pay the equivalent weight in gold for the needed flimsy keyboard to punch numbers in it) If I were the mayor in cities where there is a Microsoft Store I would be starting planning for the additional police resources needed to manage the crowds that will gather outside of them on launch date. jaclaz

Ah, the good days of NT 4.00, no need to move stuff nor to reformat... jaclaz

Yep, that's part of the experimenting, though what you removed "sounds" like "OK" you never know how the OS as a whole will behave until you try it. At least in the good ol'times of XP and nlite the "common issue" was people "removing too much" and then asking how to re-add subsystems or functions that were not (seemingly) connected with what was removed. From what I have seen around it seems like that this (the concept of packages and their assembling/removing/etc.) is about the only thing that the good MS guys made "properly" on Windows 10. The actual "ergonomics" of the management through powershell or similar and the complexity of the DISM tool are of course still something that makes no sense whatever IMHO, year after year it seems like they want to separate as much as they can "common users" from "advanced users" or GUI users from command line users , which may even a be a good thing but why making the life of command line users so difficult and *anything* related to .wim or even worse .esd or more generally "custom" or "unattended" installs such a miserable experience? jaclaz

A hopefully rare and never to be repeated (but not so strange) misadventure : https://www.humankode.com/security/how-a-bug-in-visual-studio-2015-exposed-my-source-code-on-github-and-cost-me-6500-in-a-few-hours Alexa+Amazon+VisualStudio+Github (I don't really want to point a finger on any service/company, nor on the poor fellow developer) sounds like a very palatable cocktail for dishonest bitcoin miners. jaclaz

Not a bad guess. Why don't you check loading the hive in a GUI Registry editor in the PE? At first sight, if you mount the SOFTWARE hive to a TEMP hive the path to the "right" key will be: HKLM\TEMP\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce because: HKLM\TEMP\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce should result in the booted windows as: HKLM\SOFTWARE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce (and BTW another reason to use the offline Registry editing) jaclaz

Poor, little thing , rest assured we do care for you , but it is not like your windows cleaning is like #1 priority for anyone but you . Difficult to say. If you want hyper-v functionalities it may, if you don't want them it's a smart move :. As said earlier, it is not something that the "average user" does and there is no real (that I know of) exact list of packages, of their contents and - much more than that - about the interconnectedness of each package with actual functionalities in the OS and with other packages. The link provided to you here: http://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/20583-can-someone-help-install_wim_tweak.html lists quite a few packages together with their correspondence to the OS functionalities (besides using directly powershell instead of instal_wim_tweak). Info is a bit scattered around, as an example for edge: http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-uninstall-remove-edge-browser-from-windows-10/ partly because Windows 10 is still very recent (and a lot of people are courageously attempting to fight against it) and partly because this is the chaotic way usually findings on this kind of things are managed (or non-managed), you need to extensively search for information and then verify it experimentally. Most probably (haven't ever tried it, nor anyhting later than Windows 7 personally) tools *like* NTLite will soon (or maybe already can) take care of these things but cannot really say. jaclaz

Backslashes are a "strange" thing (and particularly when used in a variable and then put in the Registry). Are you sure that running SET Drive returns: Drive=D: and not: Drive=D:\ Or simply try to use: REG ADD HKLM\TEMP\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce /v Act /t REG_SZ /d "%Drive%Activate.cmd" /f As a side-side note, personally I would rather use an Offline Registry editor from a PE: http://reboot.pro/topic/11312-offline-registry/ http://erwan.labalec.fr/other/ jaclaz

Well, at the time I posted post #4 above: Posted 31 August 2015 - 09:09 PM I read on that page the bolded parts exactly as I quoted them from the earlier Wayback Machine shapshot and that page WAS titled "Windows 10". That is not "several days ago". Here are (until they last) a couple google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=opera&q=cache:t4VUwDLfErcJ:http://www.glass8.eu/win_future.html%2Bhttp://glass8.eu/win_future.html&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest&gws_rd=cr,ssl&hl=it&&ct=clnk http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jlkyDS3bQcgJ:http://www.glass8.eu/%2Bhttp://glass8.eu/&client=opera&channel=suggest&hl=it&prmd=ivns&strip=1&vwsrc=0 taken on 31 August 2015 in the evening and I am attaching a screenshot of them, just in case. As said, I may well be totally nuts but I am usually rather accurate when I state something. And again, if there is a page titled "Windows 10" or "Windows 10 TH2" it is IMHO likely that the average user (ignorant or not) who is running Windows 10 (the sheer fact that he/she is running Windows 10 might actually - according to a few people - automatically categorize the user as ignorant BTW) may click on it, whilst the same won't probably happen if the 10 is removed from it. jaclaz

Sure , but the OP has Windows 10 and even if he hadn't read (or understood due to the conflicting info with the other pages) the page of the guide, he should have had a look at the page: http://glass8.eu/win_future.html which was titled "Windows 10 TH2" and now is (IMHO senselessly) renamed to "Windows TH2" and immediately run away, scared by the bold parts. Hence my post with the "unexpectedly" comment, anyone reading it today would come to the conclusion that I was completely crazy or disconnected from facts (and whilst the first may have some grounds , the second can be easily proved false). In a nutshell this thread is about failures : failure by the OP in reading and/or understanding the complexity of the installation and the tool being reserved to "advanced users" ONLY failure by both me and cmdshft in highlighting how some parts of the tool limitations and difficulties are actually not clearly exposed to the public failure by you to receive any of the above criticism/observations and/or provide any mitigation to the problems listed jaclaz

The .iso is a "container" that contains an "install.wim" image which is also a "container" that contains(usually) more than one indexed images. So you can mount the .iso to access the inner .wim container, but then you need to mount one of the images inside this inner container in order to access the contents. As I tried telling you, you need to mount to a folder the actual indexed image that you want to modify. Please try reading again the given link in #2: https://4sysops.com/archives/windows-7-dism-how-to-mount-manage-and-service-wim-images/ The install_wim_tweak is technically speaking a helper to service an image, you need to learn and understands the basics about mounting and servicing the image in order to use it. BUT, follow me please. You want to MODIFY something, this something is in a container (the .wim file) which is inside another container (the .iso file). Now since by definition the .iso is a READ ONLY filesystem, how do you expect that the changes can be written to it? So you need to extract the install.wim from the .iso and save it locally on hard disk (where it will be accessible as Read/Write) and then mount one of the images in the .wim to a folder that you then give as path to install_wim_tweak. And later you will need to recreate the .iso with the modified install.wim (or use the modified install.wim with direct deployment or through some installing tool). jaclaz

Hard to say, I would say a difficulty level between 3 and 7. jaclaz