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Please, describe which program settings did you use for the backup and where did you store the backup (another partition, internal/external HDD, cloud). I don't have personal experience with Acronis, but this kind of programs usually have separate 'system backup' mode that does everything automagically, it should use native Windows APIs to backup the files (including the ones in use) and recognize boot partition and system partition.

I'd ask them to call me if they plan to get rid of this IBM thingy...

So, I looked up again, and what I initially thought is applicable in Polish law (and in Most European Union countries, as per EU directive) - 70 years since the publication, if the author is not a person (so, for example, corporations). So we can host Altair Basic on Bahrain Servers? Together with source code, if we obtain it somehow?

Good Lord, I don't wanna think when M$ will set windows 2000 free... I thought that it's actually 70 years, while it's 70 years after the copyright holder's death, right were owned by a person. Thanks for unintentionally correcting my 'bad knowledge' anyway

This is the same thing that initially came to my mind. This app is freely distributed and promoted by major tech portals, there are others windows editions as an program or even a website... but let anyone drop an image here or there, and the same people will claim the poor guy a pirate, plus a lawyer's chase begins. So, the question is, why the home user can't use such image legally, while M$ is not making any money from it anyway? It will be at best used by a small group of hobbyists, not interfering their main business, as these people most likely have to have some more modern computer anyway. I totally skip the case of business users, where licences can probably still be obtained via different ways... Or maybe I don't because AFAIK due to Oracle<->M$ lawsuit Windows 98 cannot be distributed by Redmond folks anyway. The Dog in the Manger, or 'Gardener's Dog', as we call it in Poland. I'm not a lawyer myself and i don't wanna start a legal, or worse, political holy war in here, but up to my feelings there is something getting absurd with these whole copyright laws...

Happy happy Joy joy! I restored a system backup from April that I did with AOMEI Backupper, which went surprisingly smooth, and then KB4343900 got installed with no issues Now it's time to update other program and components... Many thanks @Tripredacus for leading me into the path to the solution. Two lessons from this case to be remembered: 1) Start investigating 0x80073701 issues from checking if any past update went wrong. 2) Always, remember to do regular backups, keep 'em safe and ready to use Topic can be closed.

No, it does not. Third month. I'll take a try reinstalling connected ones. Ok, front report. I looked up the updates that 4338818 replaced. No luck here, it says they are not installed. Well then, maybe let's look up newest update replaced by this ones? So i checked up my installed updates list in control panel, and it shown... around 70 updates with install date 2018-06-02. Hm, back then I installed only rollups and so, surely less than 10 updates... What's more, some of them have release date back in 2016! So I started uninstalling them one-by-one, maybe something will work... Not really KB3139923 refuses to get uninstalled throwing error pointing to other updates being badly uninstalled... Ok, now KB 4103718, may security update rollup, cannot be uninstalled. Am I Doomed? Obviously, after uninstalling all what I could from 2018-6-2 and later, MU is showing only two updates to be installed... Obviously, recent security rollup failed to install. Again. If nothing changes, I think I rollback my backup to the state from before may updates from AOMEI Image.

So, one more attempt before I’ll drop a nuke. A Bump! I tried more, looking for ‘any’ solution from the internet and tried installing cab file using DISM. It failed, but it returned an error saying ‘referred module cannot be found’, and pointing out to the DISM log file. This little text file seems to be able to tell me more-or-less what’s missing in winsxs folder. I also reminded myself about Dependency Walker and tried to analyse exe file attached into the msu archive. And here the idea comes – maybe with a little help of logs and analysis tools I’ll be able to track down missing/invalid modules and copy them from the healthy windows installation? Any of the Lounge members tried that? Very risky? PS I tried wsusoffline once again, and, however, it failed to install quality rollup, it did install separate security updates from August and July, so my attention level dropped from panic to cautious. As for updates, I do them regularly onto external HDD using Aomei personal, and data is stored on separate internal disk, so no big risk here.

Wasn't sure, thanks for correcting.

You might try. Official specs say, that 'Local user profiles' are also restored. Make another system restore point before restoring anything, so you can safely rollback As I side-note, I'd recommend against using Maxthon, as it has identified spyware-like behaviour, constantly phoning Beijing servers... https://portableapps.com/node/54786

When I tried to do on my XP, I encountered issues (VM was crashing and going black screen at best). I went through different solutions about cleaning HAL entries, configuring settings etc... And finally going from VirtualBox to VMWare player worked... Still dunno how and why.

New to us, always warm welcomed! Hi!

Probably dedicated to the OS you want to migrate to Sorry, but as for me this is way too off-topic. This thread is already filled with posts loosely connected with an updates, so do not expand its complexity and move to new one. It's already hard enough to find desired post in here...

You can't compare with our good friend Roffen

Hey, I have a problem with installing recent security update rollup for Windows 7x64 (currently KB 4338818). It started with June, and continues through July, making my computer much more vulnerable than I'd love to have. Windows fails to install throwing 0x80073701. I tried using sfc /scannow. I tried using System update Readiness Tool https://www.microsoft.com/pl-PL/download/confirmation.aspx?id=20858 I tried resetting the windows update components, as described here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_other-windows_update/windows-7-error-code-80073701-cant-install-updates/0be36326-13d5-4ee4-b146-aedf6dd3d632 and here: https://ugetfix.com/ask/how-to-fix-windows-10-update-error-code-0x80073701/ * I tried installing update locally, from installer file, with all internet security programs disabled. And, obviously, I hoped that July update will fix the problem with June one with no intervention... All fail. Someone on other board suggested me to use wsusoffline.net, but it started from downloading updates I purposely hidden (related to all the "telemetry" and Silverlight updates)... it looks like a tool designed for different purpose, I quit. Only suggestions that remain tell me to reinstall Service Pack, as it is some bug good M$ guys have provided... An It's approach I'd like to avoid. Any ideas? *Yes, i know it looks like some shady "download my bloatware" site, but this current trick is just described with more detail than on M$ sites, filled with broken links and automated responses from more than helpful support team slaves.

Sorry to hop in, but I tried to understand similar things just today... Shouldn't %programfiles% be enclosed within %%double percents%%? And if not, why? I'm asking based on what worked for me... cmd sand .reg still seems to me more a set of exceptions than rules

Fixed, thanks, I must have copy-pasted wrong entry.

Front report: - I installed IE8 update manually, and the rest (system, ,net, compatibility pack updates) via MU. Update search process wasn't long. installation took about 1 hour. - Microsoft update page still gets crapped, I needed to reload the page multiple times before I got into the website. - Installation went smoothly, no issues after the reboot. - I didn't try modified KB4134651-v2, as it turns out that bugs it brings does not impact on daily usage of my XP machine. Other thoughts: - shouldn't information about enabling/disabling TLS 1.2 in XP be included in first post for visibility? - ain't we going a bit too far ot in this thread sometimes? Good discussion is always good discussion, but with the size the thread has it's hard to find useful data from the past posts, and it will be getting only worse... just a thought...

He was just himself and he was right saying, that if you don't provide the exact model, chances that anyone will be able to help you are near-zero. Ways of entering BIOS on tablets might be different depending on vendor/model, and maybe even different revision of particular model. the only thing left here is trying every possible key combination in existence. And you actually need to do it right at the first time (before windows loads)... we're defusing the bomb here, and can't just check if 'something' works.

Plus of Cloudflare, in such case, is displaying last snapshot. But my experience, from user stance, is similar to jaclaz - it's not universal fire-and forget panacea.

Yep, it still seems to be a bit slow... noticeably a bit slow...

Hi... person! Not a bit funny, I know...

Because, simply speaking, people might misunderstand you and treat it as a serious doubt. I don't accuse you or Tripredactus to be absolutely ignorant, but remember, Forum is a publicly accessible space and internet is full of dangerous bystanders... But I guess Jaclaz already referred to that in a verbosely.

TBH i talked with a friend who studied nursery, and she said that in a place like hospital (lots of germs, and hygene impacts yours... hmm... performance) it matters. So not so silly as it might look like.

@i430VX Don't you have any sort of internet security software installed? I had similar symptoms while testing Online Armor some years ago. Anyway, this software is complex and can leave its remains that can cause trouble long after uninstalling.