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There was some registry hack that could be done in the Preview versions that would allow you to change the edition from Ultimate to Pro or Home Premium (RTM i guess). It was basically a way to trick Setup into allowing an in-place upgrade to be permitted. I can definately think of valid reasons for doing this type of thing, but at a risk of potential system instability.

I never really used that site. Maybe once or twice during XP times. Wasn't that one based on user submission? Hopefully it comes back, seems like a waste if they just removed it after all the work done with it.

Oh yes, I have previously used that method before. It would just be a pain to have to do a lot of work just for one program.

Then tell me how a user can, but cannot "go down edition" according to you, downgrade from W7U to W7HP?! There is a difference between what is designed/intended and what is physically/technically possible.

Can you post a link to the thread you found?

I ran into a situation where I need to use a DOS program but it will not run if himem.sys is loaded. Unfortunately, I (likely) have other things that require it. This is my config.sys [COMMON]DOS=HIGHSHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /P /E:512DEVICE=himem.sysdevice=ifshlp.sysIs it possible, via .bat, to unload himem.sys so that the program can run if it is selected?

The main page for it just redirects to the generic Windows page. This error page shows it is temporarily unavailable. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compatibility/Error

Windows isn't designed to go down edition, but only up edition.

Well the summary of the article states that versions prior to Windows 2000 wouldn't be vulnerable. In fact, the security issue was found with the TrueCrypt driver in VeraCrypt on Windows 10.

What were you installing it from?

It is hard to tell what your exact question is.

Yes we are aware.

Office 2010 uses an XML or MSP file. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee656738(v=office.14).aspx

The link that was originally posted contained files that are not allowed for redistribution. We do not operate in the gray area here.

Windows 8 has "Core" and Pro versions. There was confusion along with this because "Windows 8 Core" was the internal name for Windows 8. There are these two consumer editions: Windows 8/8.1 (Windows 7 Home Premium replacement) Windows 8/8.1 Pro (Windows 7 Pro replacement) For Windows 10, they decided to call the prior "Core" product Home. So you have these editions: Windows 10 Home Windows 10 Pro

Note: OP is likely tandem spammer, however can't always be sure.

Which redistributable download contains memtest.exe? I can't find one and Microsoft might not allow it.

Redistribution of Windows files is not permitted. Its cool that someone figured it out tho. What is allowed is a tutorial of how to do it yourself.

Look for tasks scheduled to run on user logon.

Trusted Installer runs under the security context of System. http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174336-question-user-accounts/#entry1106603 As an example, Trusted Installer has the ability to take ownership of things because it is a child to System. But System is not a full account as it doesn't have the natural ability to run in the interactive user session. This is why you can't really use it as a true user account. I recall in Vista there was some trick that you could get Windows to log on in Session 1 as System (it had something to do with cmd and screensavers) but the OS was pretty much unusable. If you look at the history of Windows development, you see it is mostly a bunch of add-ons. The system account is very old and Trusted Installer is relatively recent by comparison. It would be easier to give Trusted Installer certain priveledges rather than rewriting everything in Windows to no longer use System.

dragosr on twitter shared this powershell script. Debloat-Windows10.ps1 (Windows 10 Enterprise N LTSB) http://pastebin.com/Uk9BRrRJ

Considering the mitigating factor: You may not even need to apply it at all. https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS15-111

Also while you can take ownership of the entire OS if you wanted, services and applications will take back ownership as it sees fit.

I would not recommend disabling Task Scheduler. Which edition of Vista do you have? To see what tasks you have, go to Control Panel, then Administrative Tools, then Task Scheduler.

Try to find an ISO for a Live CD like Knoppix, Puppy, Ubuntu, etc. Then you boot your computer from that and it will run a Linux OS. Then remove the AC power and see what the screen does.