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The unattend if not perfect, there have been times that certain characters in the XML cause a problem with the parser. Take a look at the generated unattend.xml in c:\windows\panther to see if your commands survived parsing. First is to add into your ps command something like Write-EventLog. Because while you can see in the setupact.log in the UnattendGC folder whether or not the command is executed, you cannot see anything further. To see if the command is run at all, just have it write to event log. If that works then you know there is something wrong with your line item. Second is to have a .cmd file in your Commandline and then inside of the .cmd you put in your powershell commands. Or alternatively, you can call powershell and have your commands in a .ps1 file. A thing to remember as well is that the FirstLogonCommands in the xml has two conditions: - it runs under the context of the user account that is the first to log into Windows after OOBE. If this account does not have sufficient priveledges, it may fail because messages will be suppressed or will appear in Session 0. (You can see indications that this happens in Windows on the regular because you can sometimes find an event with text like "tried to show the user a message but failed" or something like that (I can't remember exactly) where a dialog box is generated in a session other than the one the User runs in. - it runs via the 32bit cmd.exe. This is usually only an issue when trying to write to specific parts of the registry, but could potentially cause issues beyond that I am not aware of.

I have found that these filtering devices often will block the HTTP version but not the HTTPS version. You should always be using the HTTPS url to access this site. I tend to use a plugin such as HTTPS Anywhere on my browsers which will attempt to force HTTPS usage everywhere it can.

Presumably, if you can gain access to a system using a bypass, and the account has sufficient priveledges, you can create a new account with a known password in order to log in normally.

It is a little-endian RIFF (RIFX) file from Macromedia Director. https://nosamu.medium.com/a-tour-of-the-adobe-director-file-format-e375d1e063c0

I am not aware of any corporations buying residential properties in my area, but that is one type of thing not mentioned in the local news nor something I pay much attention to. I do listen to the real estate shows on the radio at time and maybe they will say something on the next one since that tweet/story had gotten curated into twitter newsfeed. I do know that this area also has the same issue of people being outbid on house prices and the sale prices going way up. I can only speak for my own neighborhood in that regard, where the 2 houses I know have sold, one was purchased by a person. The other I do not know yet becauase the owner didn't move yet. On those radio shows they have been talking about the local market for awhile and what they have found is a lot of the purchases were made by people who had migrated from New York City, which seems to be a considerable amount. The only thing this housing situation over the past year has done is raise the value of my own house to a relatively insane level... I'd say the comparable value has at least doubled... good thing the monthly payment hasn't changed. But for 30 years ago around here, that trend was not present. There were other things happening instead. The area was depressed because we had lot most of our major industry and values were very low. Corporations were buying property in large amounts but not for high prices. They were buying up the old industrial properties which a lot ended up on the waterfront as the reason why we had a boom town in the early-mid 1900s was due to waterway shipping. We had a large rail hub and giant rail station, and giant city hall... overly large considering the size of the then current population. So the corporations were buying up large portions of cheap land 30 years ago and since then most of it has been developed. The parts that haven't are those that were primarily used for steel industry where the cleanup is expensive or at times not even done.

Here is a similar thread you may find an alternative solution. https://msfn.org/board/topic/136540-xp-recovery/

A while ago, Microsoft had changed or stopped using their link forwarder (go links) on their site... without actually updating or removing the thousands of such links on their site. So you can find many pages on microsoft.com with links that do not go anywhere. And then there are instances where their own search results page will have links that do not work, for example: https://support.microsoft.com/search/results?query=2664716&isEnrichedQuery=false Both of the results on that page go to a 404 page.

On various computers I will see the occasional Schannel error in Event Viewer. Such as: The following fatal alert was received: 40. The following fatal alert was received: 70. Here is the key to those errors: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthn/schannel-error-codes-for-tls-and-ssl-alerts So I know what the error means, but there is no indication what program or service attempted the connection or what the destination is. The setting relating to these events is default to 0x1 but there is no "verbose" setting, only to choose what types of events to log. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/iis/enable-schannel-event-logging The issue I have is not that I do not know how to troubleshoot an SSL issue, rather that I have no idea where to start. Windows just logs that an SSL error occurred but doesn't say anything more than that. Whatever is making this error, it is not something that I am actively using and/or seeing a failure in a program I am using. Other than running a packet capture on my LAN card constantly hoping to catch something through the day, is there some other way I can figure out what is generating the errors? The timeframes of the events do not present a recognisable pattern.

All companies have events now, gets those hashtags spreading. Hopefully they announce that they've fixed all the 404 links on their website.

Is it possible that a service already exists on the system with the same name as the one that this new INF is trying to create?

This message means that a file or path is specified in the INF that does not exist on the system. Either the driver package is incomplete, a pre-requisite is missing or Windows does not have access to a particular path. It should be as simple as looking for the files specified in teh INF and making sure they are actually present in the driver folder. Also, you can get this type of issue (or other errors) by attempting to update USB devices from files that are on a USB device itself. Because some drivers will reset the USB controller (at least on the software level) so if the driver files are on a USB drive, they may temporarily be unavailable during the install process. To get around this, copy the drivers to HDD before trying to install them. This can also happen when trying to install some drivers from a network share, if the drivers use relative paths, it will look for files in a working dir instead of on the network share.

Fortunately I've been able to not have to deal with a defender detection for my software... yet.

Post the model of the computer or board you are trying to find the drivers for. Also post the Hardware IDs for the particular devices.

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The only issue I've come across has nothing to do with Microsoft, rather nVidia or AMD setting minimum Windows build requirements for video drivers. It basically has made it so the LTSC 1809 is the only viable option if you want to use a modern video card.

It would only reverse it over time. The immediate effect would be that a lot of things would not be available, and potentially for a very long time. Think of it like this. We do not make any computers or displays anymore. An extreme change like this could cause a situation where you could not get any computer, television or cell phone or potentially any other type of appliance or consumer electronic device (because their industries decided to put computers into everything) for at least a year. It is not like we can just reopen the old food and manufacturing facilities we used to use 40 years ago. Those are all gone and the skilled labor groups have moved on. The doubling of gas prices (diesel would likely follow suit as usual) would primarily impact commuters, but also shippers by truck. If the prices of other fuels also increased suddenly, then the cost of using jets, ships and trains would skyrocket. Anything imported would either disappear or become immediately expensive, and anyone in rural and in-land urban centers would not have access to anything. Port cities would become big again that's for sure. The appropriate solution would be to remove all of the roadblocks to alternative power methods that are currently in place. Either government regulations, or the efforts of lobbying groups or other corporate interests. Then once a viable solution is available for all sectors, then you can ease the market in another direction. Doing so now would be a disaster. (this is all based on the apparent agreement that battery powered vehicles are not a solution to the issue at hand)

FYI This is Realtek RTL8188ETV

There is no point to raise gas prices on the consumer alone in order for them to stop using gas, when there is no current alternative for many applications. You think too small if you are only thinking of people driving in cars and going to work or on vacation or whatever. Think about the immediate impact it would have onto the economy, specifically in the supply chain and service industries. If you think the situation is bad in the world now, doubling gas prices would compound that.

Kill Em All to black album (the one you linked) and Garage Inc I like, anything starting with Load (I can't stand to hear that one) is not for me.

The impact a consumer makes is nothing to the manufacturer. Even if a person decides to not buy a certain type of car, or even if enough people decide, the industry could take years to adjust and stop manufacturing something. So the environmental impact from manufacturing is not something the consumer has any control over. And besides, the manufacturer already had made that car that is on the lot, the impact of its creation already occurred. And the one thing that the politicians do not take into account, when they make these laws (or want to or are trying to) regarding cars and the environment... such as changing of emission standard or saying that gas powered cars can't be made after 2030 or whatever, is the fact that we will just be replacing one environmental issue with another. Not having cars run on gasoline means that cars will run on electricity and that is the big push right now. We already know that creating electricity damages the environment no matter how it is produced although perhaps it could be argued that hydroelectric is the cleanest. Windmills and Solar have their own issues but they are different environmental issues than coal plants. Nuclear sounds great unless something goes wrong then we have to wait 10,000+ years because we haven't figured out how to properly handle the waste or deal with a meltdown except by covering it with concrete. And then there is the situation regarding the batteries which are created using rare earth minerals which are mined from the ground and cause damage not only to ecosystems but also pollute groundwater. So people seem to be tricked into just trading one pollution problem for another.

There was a time when a retail Win7 Pro key would work to install the Windows 10 that you were able to download from MS during the "free upgrade" period. I do not know if that still works.

Things change over time, get really into a band and then later it dies down. Some have a couple great albums and some I could notice that I just like the one or two albums and not everything they made. Metallica fits into this category. Some bands where all of their albums are good but some are just "ok" and I do not care about some albums (as opposed to the Metallica example where some albums are terrible) and a band like this would be Yes or Laibach. But for a favorite band, it would have to be something where everything is good and not just what I have heard like King Crimson or Emerson Lake & Palmer or Giorgio Moroder. And for that title I'd have to say it would have to be Morbid Angel.

The website trackers are likely wrong in the low end. There are more computers online than are capable of being tracked. Especially since we know that these sites are "trackers" and also advertising platforms, they are missing the large portion of computers running ad blockers or other types of URL filtering, not to mention custom user agents and of course, any computer that doesn't use a web browser such as appliances. For example, does that 5.7 Million Windows XP number include XP Embedded systems? Does it include the huge amount of Bank ATMs?

No this is the incorrect answer. You may be able to call the cable company to get the specs, if you can't find the actual model number of the cable modem in order to look it up yourself. There is nothing wrong with the modem (as far as this thread goes) so there is no "support" for the cable company to provide.

Well ok, but did you have this same issue? I also forgot to mention that I also uninstalled all of the USB devices as seen in NirSoft's USBDeview before updating the driver for the USB controller. And as far as the method for troubleshooting, the typical, take one thing at a time, which was: 1. run windbg on the memory.dmp and it pointed to Chrome, so attempted to do an Update in Iron but it does not have an update option like Google Chrome does. So I ran memtest. 2. Then I wanted to run the virus scan, but it complained of the SHA2 update being missing 3. the next crashes produced memory.dmp that pointed to USB driver, so I did the USB driver stuff. Then of course, the issue disappeared.