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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.

Welcome to the MSFN!

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.

Oh I forgot to mention that I did not delete the ~Windows.BT or SW folder after I went to Windows 7. So it is possible it just knew I already had Windows 10 because those files were still there.

Oh forgot this thread. I posted in the "Upgrade experience" thread that you can just install it again. I didn't use the GWX icon because it was broken, but used the 64bit media creator and did NOT make the ISO.

It wasn't mine. It was an older system, a few years old I believe. I don't even remember who the manufacturer is... but you are right. RAID on notebooks are typically found in the ones marketted towards engineers and games. So "high-end" types. Back on topic. I was able to go back to Windows 7. This is NOT something you want to do, at least not at this stage. Here were the problems. - No USB ports worked! Fortunately the board I was using had PS/2 ports on them, but PS/2 is not PnP. I plugged in the mouse and had to use the power button to turn off the PC. And then turn it back on. I did it this way, instead of using the reset button, because I didn't want to break the mirror. When booted back up, PS/2 mouse worked and I was going to connect to a network share to update the USB drivers. So I had to plug in a PS/2 keyboard. This cause the mouse to stop working! So I had to do a shutdown and boot back up again. Bottom line: USB keyboard and mouse did not work unless I booted the PC up with PS/2 keyboard attached. I'm NOT digging into this one, just it was the first thing I noticed. - Office Starter's Click-To-Run drive (Q: ) was missing. Word still opened and I don't remember what that virtual drive was needed for. - A large amount of the scheduled tasks were corrupted or missing. As soon as I opened Task Scheduler, I had to click OK about 30 times on the various notifications that x task was corrupt. All of them were OS tasks! All the Office 2010 Tasks were missing! One user on Technet has reported getting corrupted tasks when going from Windows 10 to Windows 8.1. So yes you can do this uninstall of Windows 10 but your OS might have some problems. SFC did not find any problems. The other good news is that you can update to Windows 10 again. In fact, when it finishes the process, it says "Welcome back."

An unfortunate scenario has come to light. Say you had chosen to reserve Windows 10 at some point in the past. Say you are seeing all the negative reactions about Windows 10 and want to wait a while before upgrade or maybe you changed your mind and don't want it. Well guess what? TOO BAD! A user on another forum has found this out the hard way. I would consider it "being upgraded against your will" although not exactly the same as this topic. Here is what his computer now says...

Yikes, no! You can do RAID on a notebook (look in my previous post with the spoiler) but you would need one with 2 HDD bays. Windows 10 updated on my test PC just fine. Stayed on local account. RAID intact, software works... Office 2010 Starter works... Recovery partition is still present but the lack of F8 menu means you can't boot into it. So now I am going to uninstall the Update (if it works) and try to re-get the update, as people were wondering about that.

OOBE in Windows 10 (as well as newer installs of 8.1) now will attempt to go online to download new/updated OOBE pages. One example would be (maybe ) if they changed the EULA, it would be available on a new install immediately. Of course, you can just unplug the network cable. In my experience (so far) Windows 10 hasn't complained or had an error due to lack of internet access.