Tripredacus

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.

I tried to "willfully" upgrade a Windows 7 system to Windows 10 (as people have reported they have been able to get the IP) but it isn't working. No notification and none of the GWX programs do anything. I installed every possible update I could find sans the Intel Video driver. I will try Windows 8.1 next.

That's nothing new... Windows 8 has this. Rather than the push-button Refresh, your other recovery option is to erase everything and reinstall Windows. This is not saying that after you do the Upgrade that you can then burn a Windows 10 DVD to do the clean reinstall.

I always wondered about this... I always disable email notifications except for PMs and secret mod stuffs... Are you saying that you wouldn't come here unless you got an email?

You can't use Safe Mode on first boot. I think maybe you are trying to do too much at once. I would recommend trying to start simple. Install and capture a Windows image, then redeploy it to another system or VM. Don't worry about drivers and software right away. Once you are confident you can do the OS properly, then start working on the other stuff. Try this article out: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee523217%28v=ws.10%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 But there is an error in it. Where it says to choose Work as Network Location, choose Public instead. Choosing a network location should never be done on an image and if you have to (such as in OOBE) then you choose Public. The other two will generate an error when you sysprep the OS. Also you can use DISM instead of Imagex if you want.

No, that is the correct place for that topic, which is this: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173954-outlookcom-can-i-go-back-to-the-metro-look/ In the future consult with a mod before making a duplicate topic.

Your process is probably wrong, but we would first need to know what is causing the image not to boot. What you can do is redeploy the image, then using F8 during first boot, choose to disable Automatic Restart on System Failure. If the computer ends up bugchecking, then it won't restart automatically and you can see the error.

It might be possible that the cable is not seated properly.

What roles are installed on your domain controller?

If by this you are asking why posting in the intro thread doesn't increase your post count... it would be because you don't increase posts in any of those general forums. So what happens is you only get posts increase if you post in the "technical" sections.

There is a 2.0a patch available... You'd have to see that version your game is already. Not sure on where the version info is kept. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5264 Look at the reqs there, it says 1024x768 display with 2MB vram.

I couldn't convince myself to either edit or delete the post. So instead I split out these two posts into a new thread in the Intro forum. Here is the thread these posts were from: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173934-explorerexe-crash/

One thing to remember... Microsoft has been talking about the update cycle for Windows 10 to be the seemless type from Chrome and unlike Mozilla's attempt which comes off more as an annoyance. So if it turns out that way, Windows 10 could be the last OS moving forward! That doesn't necessarily mean it will be bad forever... remember that (retail) Vista was bad when it first came out but got significantly better once SP1 was made available.