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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.

Arg they changed it... Hopefully they change RTM date too.

This isn't a contest!

I haven't decided which is better, but have noticed a heat difference: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173843-windows-10-runs-hotter-than-windows-7/#entry1099467

It was certainly possible in the early days of Flash... and I wouldn't doubt it would be possible nowadays but there are considerations. It really depends if the user wants the behaviour, sees it or doesn't see it and/or doesn't want it.

I'm still wondering why the account matters at all... Does your program not work properly running in WinPE?

Is it you want to make a Recovery partition for Windows 7 on a GPT disk? Or do it for some other OS? Windows 7 hard disk based recovery instructions are not publicly available from Microsoft, however there are other programs out there like Acronis (that's the only one I can think of atm) that can make a recovery partition for you.

This is something I had to deal with regarding one of the programs I use that runs .cmd files. Because all the .cmd files existed on a network share, it would be really easy to accidently run one on the local system and have something bad happen to the server. What I ended up doing was having all the .cmd files change extension to .log. This way, if you click it, it will open in Notepad by default. Easy to inspect that way. And then of course if a file is needed to be run, my program changes the extension to .cmd after the file is copied from the share.

Yes there is a Users folder and it does show Administrator, Default and Public. When I open CMD, the prompt is: X:\Users\Default> So this PE logs in automatically as Default user, not Administrator. Administrator exists and is enabled, or at least NET USER says it is. The DefaultUsername shown in the registry for Autologon purposes is Administrator and the password is 1. It may be possible to run applications under the context of other accounts. I tried to run a cmd.exe using RunAs and the Administrator account, but it doesn't see Runas as being a valid command.

Maybe it is to right the "wrong" of previously having icons or folders in the past prefixed with "My" such as My Computer and My Documents. Anyone who has ever done tech support over the phone may run into people who simply did not understand directions. When you say "Open My Computer" they would say "Your Computer?" in a serious manner. Maybe they are attempting to right another wrong of Windows 6.x where the personalization of folders was removed entirely, having no My Computer and only Computer.

I guess not technically a "PE" anymore... the tools that add things to a stock PE make it a franken-os with a 3 day timer on it. The Make_PE3 I made (long ago) has both Administrator and Guest account. This I can only see from NET USER commands. Local Users and Groups snap-in does not work.

I wonder if your DPI setting has changed.

If you make a disk image of a Windows OS on GPT disk, including the EFI partitions, you may experience a problem booting the OS if you redeploy the image to a disk of a different size. This happens (for sure) with Windows 7, not sure about Windows 8.x. There may be a way to fix that after the fact, I never looked into it.

Sounds like a blade server? I've seen those before that have no video and you have to hook another computer up via serial port to see what's going on. That doesn't help anything! What WinPE version are you using? I'd personally try using WinPE 2.0 (Vista) to start.