jaclaz

Well, whenever someone (anyone) gives you numbers or statistics, a good idea would be to check and double check them, sometimes they are simply wrong or misrepresented or misinterpreted. Right now on Wikipedia the netmarketshare data for Windows 10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems is at 2.47% while the original data on Netmarketshare: http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomb=&qpcustomd=0&qpsp=198&qpnp=1&qptimeframe=M is at 0.39% As a matter of fact if you sum the whole column on Netmarketshare it's result is 100.01, while the whole column on the Wikipedia page is 102.00 Of course in this case it is most probably a slip of the finger/typo, and has no practical consequences, but the same thing (or a similar one) can have really dramatic consequences, last world wide example being the (in)famous Reinhart-Rogoff Excel mishap: http://theconversation.com/the-reinhart-rogoff-error-or-how-not-to-excel-at-economics-13646 a number of countries adopted (completely wrong) economical politics based on an already debatable enough theory based on false/wrong data. jaclaz

Wild guess , mind you, but it is possible that those new sticks are set as "Fixed" media and this *somehow* affects the behaviour of the booting PE. Basically 99.99% of USB 2.0 sticks are set in factory as "Removable". Some of the fastish USB 3.0 are not anymore a USB stick, but rather a USB to SATA bridge with attached to it a SATA (miniaturized) SSD and they thus come as "Fixed". Since all in all the drive letter is linked to the volume GUID in DosDevices and a hard disk like device (Fixed) uses disk signature+offset as identifier while a Removable device uses a different method, it is possible that the issue revolves around this. Another reason might be if (for whatever cause) the wpeinit.exe is not executed. Try running: wpeutil updatebootinfo https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744592(v=ws.10).aspx And see if it makes a difference. In any case you can check in the batch (which contains NOT "DOS commands" but rather Windows Command Line ones) for the presence of a "tag" file in the available drives and set your variable with the drive letter resulting from the check. Not entirely unlike we did in the good ol' times: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/137714-install-xp-from-a-ram-loaded-iso-image/?p=895361 http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/120444-how-to-install-windows-from-usb-winsetupfromusb-with-gui/page-72#entry1005836 jaclaz

Not really, most probably there is also data for when you leave the machine unattended for a few minutes (to get a cup of coffe or smoke a cig), one of the points of telemetry (as implemented by MS, and set aside the privacy concerns) is that you have no access to it's data, and the good MS guys (particularly the PR and marketing guys) can say anything about it, just like statistics (when results are published without providing the RAW data). http://thinkexist.com/quotation/oh-people_can_come_up_with_statistics_to_prove/338856.html I will go further in the past a number of boasted numbers about SALES of MS (OS or hardware) were later debunked by analyzing quarterly or yearly financial reports, in this case, when there is no sale as the upgrade downgrade is free, they can really tell you *anything* (and the contrary of it). jaclaz

Well, with all due respect , allow me to doubt this without some more data/reports/anaysis. At least historically, the good MS guys have always made things more complex (often without actually any need for it) than what they were in a previous version, so they already had the "voting system" in earlier OS's, like: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128378-hardware-changes-and-windows-activation/?p=827471 it would be really news if for once they made something actually simple and straightforward (like "you can change anything but the motherboard"). jaclaz

And it's only fair to link to someone which has different views on the thingy: http://www.boycottdocker.org/ Whom actually, while comparing the pro and cons of Docker containers against VM's (Virtual Machines) and criticizing most of the design (or of the hype around it) writes seemingly in plain enough English thus allowing us "normal people" to get an idea of what it is. jaclaz

I'll throw this on the table (and promptly hide my hand behind my back ): http://tinywall.pados.hu/ if one has anyway the stupid bloat .Net is, it is actually lightweight and represent IMHO a more friendly way to manage the Windows built-in firewall. As a side note, the views of the Author on security not necessarily being the same as mine BTW, I would give them a 70% hit rate: http://tinywall.pados.hu/sectips.php though Tip #10 is obviously a very, very good one, and compensates for the little sense that #1, #2 and #8 make. jaclaz

Most probably (but cannot really say ) nothing has changed in Windows 10 when compared with 8/8.1 so making a full trace like explained here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/158252-trace-why-windows-8-boots-shutsdown-or-hibernates-slowly/ may apply as well (to find out the culprit). jaclaz

Hopefully Of course it is just fun but I like to imagine the stupid Windows 10 much like an automated Mechanical Turk , with a little girl, Cortana, inside it actually reading everything, interpreting commands etc. and then doing whatever things she fancies, not necessarily what the user asked for .... jaclaz

JFYI, 7-zip has a built-in feature to calculate a number of common hashes, including CRC32. jaclaz

I had some issues in understanding the essence of the above post by alacran (particularly the reference to the "same for all keys"), now ,if the info in this thread is correct, it makes much more sense: http://reboot.pro/topic/20630-windows-10-my-upgrade-experience/ If I get this right the key is not unlike the "generic test keys" that were provided for some of the recent MS OS's, and what actually counts is the "fingerprint" or "hash" of the machine uploaded on the activation servers. Given that this is the way it is working the good MS guys may well have put together a mechanism preventing the re-activation of the "previous OS" after a given time interval, the one month talked about here : http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174164-free-upgrade-to-windows-10-and-downgrade-to-windows-81/ jaclaz

It's likely that Cortana doesn't understand "språkinställningar", most probably the little circles and dots over the a's . jaclaz

If we assume that telemetry data was actually used, judging from results those telemetry data were redirected to the NUL device and the good MS guys did whatever (the heck) they intended to do anyway (the alternative could be much more sad, IF they actually used telemetry data and those shaped the current abomination then clearly humanity is doomed, self-destroyed by stupidity). jaclaz

Maybe empty lines? Try using MORE with and without the /S switch in the XP and see if line number changes. jaclaz

No. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-answers.html Quite a few people have many years of experience in multibooting Vista, 98, and XP. Quite a few people have several years of experience in multibooting 7, 98, and XP. Quite a few people have a few years of experience in multibooting 8 or 8.1, 98, and XP. At the most a very limited number of people may have a few days of experience in multibooting 10, 98 an XP.The good news are that those in points #1, #2 and #3 can manage #4 easily as essentially there have been no changes in the booting sequence in Windows 10. jaclaz

And, if you want to spend TODAY some good money you can have one of these (provided that the OS and hardware support them ): http://www.sandisk.it/enterprise/ulltradimm-ssd/ But yes, used SSD's of (relatively) little size can be found cheap enough and - depending on your use of the system - you do not really need at the same time a fast storage subsystem and a large one, in normal use 100 Gb or so are enough for OS, tools/programs and the "working data". jaclaz

Well, guess why exactly I am The Finder jaclaz

Yep, the board parser has some "queer" issues with that link, it "automagically" corrects it to either "url=" (which means "the same post") or to "url=/" (which means site root aka www.msfn.org). Strange. Copy and paste the "code" should do: http://windows10_dpi_blurry_fix.xpexplorer.comInverting the order of factors, it seemingly works:http://xpexplorer.com/windows10_dpi_blurry_fix/ jaclaz

Well, no. It seems like getting married with the "wrong" partner, a not so slight distinction. As a side note, and just out of curiosity, is the "progress bar" (or "whatever") characterized by the usual approximated accuracy or at least it provides a fair enough estimate? Courtesy XKCD: https://xkcd.com/612/ jaclaz

Even if it is another issue , the referenced thread is "good to know" , as a side note the proposed (temporary) fix/solution: http://xpexplorer.com/windows10_dpi_blurry_fix/ provides IMNSHO yet another of the "queer" ways seemingly this stupid OS behaves (bolded/underlined/coloured to highlight): I can understand how someone (in his/her perverted mind) might decide to do the "reset on every reboot" approach, but once every TWO reboots? The same mechanism could be used to reset some other setting to a default every 10 or 12 or ROUND(Pi*e2) reboots. jaclaz P.S.: Link fixed

Thank you , but actually the scope of my question was to avoid the guessing There are tens of similar programs, just as an example I tend to use the Nirsoft one: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html I was specifically asking what he was using, maybe the key retrieval process (or where it is stored or the way it is stored) remains the same in Windows 10 as it was in 7/8/8.1 (and then each and every similar program will do) or maybe it is different/has changed and thus a specific program (updated for Windows 10) is needed, also maybe the retrieved key is valid to re-authenticate a Windows 10 or maybe it is not. jaclaz

Maybe next year one of these new thingies may provide some x1000 improvements. http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2015/07/28/intel-and-micron-produce-breakthrough-memory-technology jaclaz

JFYI, Something happened. http://movingfulcrum.com/windows-10s-terrible-installer/ jaclaz

Maybe, just maybe, the site is a tadbit fatter that what it might be really-really *needed*, see: http://httparchive.org/viewsite.php?pageid=29394163 See also: http://httparchive.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=140701_4_2P4R-l:Jul%201%202014,150719_3_22RZ-l:Jul%2015%202015 Doubled size in one year? We are ALREADY beyond DOOM install size (*random* but IMHO nice reference/unit of measure): https://twitter.com/xbs/status/626781529054834688 jaclaz

Affidavit, you posted this same piece of info on three threads, but all of them lack a description of the "a program" you used. Can you share this piece of info? jaclaz

I am not getting it. What are the "news"? The use of a backup made with ERUNT? http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?s=&showtopic=25787&view=findpost&p=175632 Why should I need an "original" in Italian? jaclaz