Tripredacus

I'm not sure I understand what you say is happening. Are you saying that local user accounts (that are not the built-in Administrator) are losing their administrative rights after the PC is joined to the domain? As in, they are no longer in the Administrators group? Why was it determined that deleting the account and making a new one is your workaround? What other things were tried? I would look to see what GPOs are running on the PC after it is joined. Some can be applied even if you do not log into the PC using a domain account.

Did you try using less RAM or different RAM sticks? I didn't see that mentioned.

Firefox isn't the only browser to toss up a message like that, I remember having seen it in IE also. I never really looked into what the cause was back then. I can say that websites nowadays can be mostly un-usable without javascript. This is a bad because you can find sites where you can't see anything at all because they use the js for generating the pageview or menus or whatever.

What is the USB device? Maybe it is actually set as not removable?

As noted, we can't tell you how people did things in warez versions of software because warez is not allowed.

Bump on this. Users have found this can occur in Windows 10 TP.

Think of it like this. I could use it on my computer(s) at work*, but I can't tell my boss to buy it and have it on everyones computer. Nor could we say, buy it and then put it on PCs that we sell. *presuming you have the ability to do such things with your work computer(s).

What is the model number of the Audigy you are using? Look here as some have been posted in the past. http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/152729-help-finding-sound-blaster-windows-98-drivers/

Although there are methods to make Server 2012 work as a Windows To Go device, it is not intended nor supported. Such a thing is fine for personal use, but I wouldn't recommend you use the "Server 2012 to Go" hack in a business environment.

I was able to do it with the very first version... I just right-click and remove or unpin or something.

That's interesting. I was under the impression that the dynamic Setup pages was going to be a new function of Windows 10. This would indicate that it was already in Windows 8.1?

It appears so, but as with Windows 8.1 it would only be for the Pro edition.

Well there are different types of licenses that I work with, and in the case of the Windows 7 Home Premium I used, I can't see how they could invalidate it as it doesn't phone home to an activation server. The other types it could be possible as activation servers are used, but I am not worried that such a thing will happen. Suddenly I thought of a "possible" other way to avoid getting the update... I bet those GWX updates don't apply to Embedded SKUS...

I don't understand what you are asking. Are you refering to the Windows 7 license?

I only really wanted to get the process down. I will still need to test at GA how the upgrade process works, so that support can be ready for the calls that will come in. Noel, note I rarely do any tech funstering using my actual work/home PCs. Most of my work is "throwaway" type that I do on actual hardware, rather than VMs. So the reservation for Win10 is not really one, as I'm likely to format that HDD within the day.

Hmmm I was under the impression that you could upgrade to the Preview using this GWX but this doesn't seem to be true. I did finally get the icon to show up... it takes a bit of time I guess. I reserved my copy of Windows 10, but I doubt this OS will remain intact by then.

Actually received a support question regarding power on time for an SSD a couple weeks ago. CrystalDiskInfo can also show you this information. My wonder is at what point was this information being kept on a disk? I have some pretty old disks running in my PCs, but they might be too old to get that information.

I wanted to show how this looks on UEFI boot. This specifically shows how MSHTA does not scale the content, and how the wallpaper looks... it is a small tablet that is firmware locked to boot x86 in UEFI only (no legacy, no x64) so I made the best by putting the HTA into the WinPE 10 x86. Coin is there for scale, US Quarter. In normal operation, the wallpaper will scale whether using 4:3 or 16:9 in legacy mode, however 16:9 displays booted in UEFI mode will always have this white space to the right.

I have not done anything like that before, only putting .sys files in System32 of the mounted image.

Saw this today, working with making WinPE v"whatever" using the Windows 10 ADK. If running on a Windows 7 SP1 x64 host, DISM will skip driver signature enforcement when servicing a newer WinPE equivalent image. This is helpful and not at the same time. I think for a WinPE, it isn't a big deal but it would be for an OS. Using DISM from Win8/8.1 ADK, you'd get a certificate error when trying to inject a driver signed by the WDK for 8/8.1 if the host PC was Win7 or Server 2012 SP2. It wasn't an error per-se, but basically the host was not able to interpret the certificate on a digitally signed driver and thus threw the error. If you did the injection on a Win8/2012 R2 host, there would be no problem. I am just doing testing now, so I hope that this doesn't happen on a 2012 host because I don't really want to build a VM with Win10 or 8.1 just to inject digitally signed drivers into OS images. Note: the reason this is an issue is certain channels are unable to disable signature enforcement on OS images.

No success on getting the thingy on Windows 7 Home Premium. I wonder if the update that makes the notification behaves differently on other versions of Windows. For example, the people who have seen the Win10 thing, are they using Retail or System Builder installations?

Posting a google search is not what we consider to be helpful on this forum. If you do not know the answer or have experience with the issue, then do not comment. This is why we (unfortunately) end up having people ask questions that do not get answers. In addition to submix8c's response, I also load registry hives. However I use the regedit from a WinPE to do the work/inspection.

All the games OP listed should work fine on Win98, noting that some software may have newer versions that shouldn't be used. For example, there are multiple releases of Half-Life. The first release worked fine on Win98 but did not on XP. Newer release works fine on XP but not sure about 98. My only concern would be Diablo II with LOD. LOD has XP as the minimum and I don't remember if I had LOD on Shiva or not.

I doubt that your customizations will be saved. You might find some remnant or it could also be that your tweaks could interfere with the update process. I haven't yet been able to test how Win10 will be as an in-place upgrade of Windows 7.

I can try a Windows 7 Home Premium test next week. I may test Windows 8.1 Core if the Pro test doesn't yield any results. I don't like the RTM period that exists... it just isn't enough time to test everything that I want, which *now* includes how this whole upgrade process will work with existing systems in the field.