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It really looks like one from Antec, but with some extra molded designs.

Sounds like you have a better computer than me!

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I don't find an actual explanation for what Visibility does... I have an idea regarding that for Updates... Can you check Updates with visibility 1 or 2 against how they appear in either View Installed Updates vs Update History?

The Alfa 1W (meaning 1 watt apparently) is connected via USB. What is your motherboard? When comparing wireless devices, it would make more sense to see how well the Alfa 1W works on the netbook. Also, Amazon reviews indicate performance of this USB adapter greatly depends on which antenna is used.

Its interesting that Hitachi (powered by WD) disks are more reliable than WDs on their own.

The only way I could think is that you wanted to play a game that absolutely requires DirectX 12 in order to operate... or the Windows App version of Minecraft. For me anyways, I am perfectly fine sticking with Windows 7. I have no requirement to use a newer OS at this time.

Do you have an Autodesk program installed? UTX.DLL seems to be involved.

I keep thinking that the sentence is written backwards. It sounds more like it was calculated that there was a 3000% increase in efficiency or some other metric. The author cites a specific example in senior card, whatever that is. The data sources are not cited, so we can't say for sure how this figure came to be.

Local address meaning you had a webserver running on your computer, or an intranet if it was at work. Try adding it as http://dollypartonentertainment.com/story or just dollypartonentertainment.com/story without the www. at the beginning. I will say, tho, that there might be a redirect being used by that site. If you still don't have it sorted by tomorrow, I'll try it myself.

There are still some problems in Audit Mode for Windows 10. They are: - Power settings for Shutdown are ignored (always sleep/hibernate) - Power settings for Power button are ignored (always sleep/hibernate) - Power settings do not always work - Sometimes there are 2 overlapped lock screens - Start Menu, Bluetooth, Personalize and Display Resolution menus do not work. (this occurs after generalizing an image and then booting to Audit Mode) To start, the main complaint at RTM was that the restart/power button options were missing from the lock screen. Since Vista, this process was the same. When you log into Audit Mode, the Administrator account becomes disabled. This means that if you were to put the computer to sleep/hibernate, the lock screen would not let you log in because your account was disabled. In Windows 7, the power setting for "Sleep after" while plugged in was Never. In Windows 8 and 8.1, the power setting for "sleep after" while plugged in was 15 minutes. In Windows 10, it doesn't seem to matter because it won't go to sleep after a timeout, no matter what amount of time you have it set for. For Windows 7-8.1, if the computer had been put into sleep, when you resume you couldn't log in. You would have to choose the Restart option. When the computer restarted, it would automatically log back in with the Administrator account and you would be at the Desktop with the Sysprep program on the screen. There is some confusion with Windows 10 because the UI actually uses 2 different lock screens, both in Audit or normal modes. When in Audit Mode, the first lock screen is the one that has your picture, username (Administrator) and the message saying your account is disabled. The only button to press is Okay (which is the same for previous OSes) which then attempts to log in with the disabled account. The second lock screen is behind this one. The second screen has all the same stuff as the first but also has the restart/power button. Through testing, I have seen these three scenarios: 1. Only the 2nd lock screen is shown, which means you can restart. 2. The 2nd lock screen is shown for less than 1 second, then the first one appears. You cannot proceed. 3. The 1st lock screen is only shown and you cannot proceed. Now I fully understand that the difference between scenarios 2 and 3 could well be timing, and that they are the same. In order to proceed in a situation where 2 or 3 occur, you need to reset the system. The power button is useless as Windows will hibernate or sleep. You need to do a reset if you have a desktop. If you have a notebook you need to remove power and the battery. If you have a tablet or other system without a removable battery... What happened to me originally was I ran into this problem in IP times and reported it. Then RTM came out and it was still there. Then the first update rollup seemed to have fixed the issue, but what actually happened was that I was testing on a different system. That's right, the OS is actually working differently on 3 different systems. System 1: Windows 10 Home x64 with KB3074683 (Compal TWS Notebook, HDD, MBR disk) - Power Options CPL shows Monitor and System sleep settings for battery and plugged in. - shutdown: Hibernate, wake to lock screen, account disabled, no restart option - close lid: sleep, resumed to desktop (this is a new behaviour, haven't seen this in previous OS) - powercfg -h off - close lid: sleep, resumed to desktop. - shutdown: shut down, boot and admin autologon to desktop (expected behaviour) System 2: Windows 10 Home x64 with KB3074683 (Clevo P750ZM Notebook, SSD, MBR disk) - Power Options CPL only shows Monitor sleep settings for battery and plugged in. - Shutdown: Sleep, resumed to desktop - Close lid: Sleep, resumed to desktop - powercfg -h off - Shutdown: shut down, boot and admin autologon to desktop - close lid: did not sleep, only turned off screen. System 3: Windows 10 Home x64 with KB3074683 (Asus H97M-E, RAID 1 HDD, MBR disk) - Power options CPL shows monitor and system sleep for plugged in. - shutdown: Hibernate, wake to lock screen, account disabled, no restart option powercfg -h off - shutdown: shut down, boot and admin autologon to desktop So the reason why I thought the issue was fixed with the update was because I had (by then) moved onto another system (system 2) where the problem wasn't happening. In all testing, using powercfg.exe to disable hibernate "fixes" the issue. As noted, changing the power options manually in Control Panel do not seem to have any effect, hence they must be ignored. Since powercfg.exe options are not reset when Sysprep is used, it is not ideal to need to change this. Imagine you were to forget to turn it back on again before you put a system onsite or sold to a customer. In these testing, the 1st scenario does not seem to work anylonger. It had worked after the first release of KB3074683 but not the 3rd (which is in the image now.)

Also verify that Windows is activated. As well as that your date and time are correct and your time zone set properly.

Does this impact USB booting MS DOS?

What's so special about that particular site? Is it a local address?

DISM can't mount ESD files. The install.wim in the download from Media Creation Tool is an ESD file, that's why people get this error.

The user specifically mentions using some warez, which would imply that they are not using a legal install of Windows 7.

Users on technet have reported that Windows 7 PCs joined to a domain are getting the Windows 10 installer download now. Despite what MS said before, I'm thinking that Windows Update does not function differently if on a domain or workgroup. Hopefully we won't hear of domain PCs getting that "reboot and install 10" thing.

I've had the idea that if you were to get to that step where Windows Update won't let you do anything except restart and install Windows 10... that you could "save" your system at that point by deleting the Windows.~SW folder. My only concern would be that a restart could fail or that you wouldn't be able to use Windows Update anymore.

So in your original attempt, did you rename install.esd to install.wim?

Does the second Skype icon disappear if you disable viewing Protected System Files? I know you have this enabled now because you have the two desktop.ini on your 3rd picture.

I want to mention that I had done a clean install, and upgraded to Windows 10 again yesterday and am greeted with the "Welcome Back" message again. This install had XAMPP installed on it, to test for possible issues with Apache running on a system. I couldn't find any. This was also the PC I fiddled with the date. After changing the date in the future, then back to the present, all the menus flicker, don't open or close by themselves.

After the computer went to sleep, and wake back up, the option to return to Windows 7 is now gone.

Saw this on Technet regarding automatic downloading of Windows 10: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/c4be9e8f-4d8f-40db-9230-ca614e6af42f/does-the-upgrade-still-download-even-if-i-havent-reserved?forum=win10itprosetup

The ImageInstall object is fine. You can do it that way, or the way MC did it. I personally use this method: <UserData> <ProductKey> <Key>XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX</Key> <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI> </ProductKey> <AcceptEula>true</AcceptEula> </UserData> <ImageInstall> <OSImage> <InstallTo> <DiskID>0</DiskID> <PartitionID>1</PartitionID> </InstallTo> <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI> </OSImage> </ImageInstall>Regarding host OS... I can honestly say that I have rarely even used WSIM since Vista days. I make all my XMLs in Notepad based off a saved one for something else.My editing PC currently runs Server 2008 R2 and has 2 different Kits installed: Windows 7 OPK and Windows 8.1 ADK. I then have DISM10 in another folder that I can add drivers or updates using the Windows 8.1 Tools cmd.

Well it seems changing the date in the BIOS and not having an internet connection (so Windows won't know the date is wrong) isn't enough to make the button go away. The button is still there and still usable.