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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.

If you are still non-genuine, I would be interested to see the licensing output. I haven't seen one yet regarding Windows 10. Run this in an elevated CMD and then paste the contents of report.txt here. Licensingdiag.exe -report %userprofile%\desktop\report.txt -log %userprofile%\desktop\repfiles.cab

Topic split from: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173379-windows-10/ Topic title taken from one of the posts.

Not exactly. The software says that the option to uninstall Windows 10 and go back to your previous OS will disappear after 30 days. It specifically means the button on the Recovery page. That is all we know so far. We don't know: - if the process is actually deactivated (aka can you run the command the button does from CMD or Powershell) - What happens to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 licenses that go through the activation server (OEMSB, Retail, MSDN, OEM 8.1 key in BIOS) Fortunately we do know that neither of these licenses will be affected since neither of these go to the MS Activation servers: - Windows 7 from Direct OEM (where OEM name is on the COA) - Windows 7 or 8.1 with KMS And unknown to me personally: - Windows 7 or 8.1 from MS Refurbisher.

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Hey lurk, you posted (nearly) the same command that I did!

More downgrade stuffs... I was fearing that installing Windows 10 would do something with the BCD. Of course it does... for Windows 10's use. As such, you can't use the recovery partition if Windows 10 is installed. There is no F8 menu and (actually) Windows 10 is designed so that you can run Refresh or Reimage without having a separate recovery image somewhere. When you uninstall Windows 10 and go back to whatever OS, your original BCD will be intact. With exception is that you will have leftover "SafeOs" entries that Windows Update used to install Windows 10. Anyways, you will be able to use your original recovery partition! In my case, I unintalled Windows 10, then after Windows 7 was back I restarted. Then I used F8, repair computer and then re-install Windows 7.

In a hang situation, setuperr.log might be empty. Last entries in setupact.log or possibly the ones in Unattend_GC might be helpful. Not sure in the case of a VM, but you would need to restart and boot into a PE somehow. Or if you can just boot your Setup DVD without the unattend file you can use its CMD/Notepad with Shift+F10.

I was taking a look at Edge today to see if it was using any files or such for network settings... For example, people are reporting that any security settings set for IE are ignored. I didn't really find what I was looking for but did find that Edge stores your history in the registry. Search under HKCU for one of these: TypedURLs TypedURLsTime TypedURLsVisitCount The path is pretty long so if you search for one, you'll find the other two right next to it.

Are you talking about not allowing the physical action of locking a PC, like Win+L? Or the behaviour when the screensaver is set and to lock the PC on resume?

auditSystem pass would never be processed, so it should be removed. I have not seen Autologon used in the specialize pass. What is the reason for using it there and not in oobeSystem? So you say it hangs... does it ever finish? I would look into the log files to see what it was working on at the time of the problem.

Does this still work? wmic useraccount where "name='Username'" set PasswordExpires=false*also use in elevated CMD.

That's one problem of using includes that run on other websites. Never liked the idea. The webpagetest.org looks really good and shows the breakdown fairly well.