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The OS itself is fine, it is just the shell that is a nightmare. I only personally use the Enterprise versions for work and home computers. If you read in this section, there are plenty of threads about personal experience, such as this thread: https://msfn.org/board/topic/174896-official-windows-10-worst-crap-ever/

A good explanation of the boot process by our old friend: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/sudden-slow-reboot/7e4d38c2-8c2e-4e19-a2aa-c60bb5b62b75?auth=1 Using a spinning disk or SSD? I come to think of boot time as being important only if uptime is not important.

A different resolution needs to be posted. That particular video contains content not allowed per rule 1.

Corporate world is like that.

I will believe it. If you search for drivers on the catalog, it is super complicated to find the correct one. Especially since the catalog likes to sometimes put internal or code names for releases in the OS version column. Just yesterday I ran into a problem finding a Broadcom WLAN driver. I downloaded the most recent one for Windows 10 current version, went to install it and it wouldn't take it. Then I look into the INF and it has XP to 8.1 specific install sections, not a Win 10 section or even one of those generic amd64 sections. So if the catalog has Windows XP drivers marked as Windows 10 drivers, you can be sure that Windows Update probably was doing the same thing... which might explain some of the issues people have with drivers from WU in the first place.

It must be pointed out that modifying your Windows 7 installation to be able to install updates from other SKUs does not grant you additional support. It invalidates your support. Support is granted from Microsoft to the software. Support is not: you can install updates. The only way to get actual support for Windows 7 or POSReady is to subscribe to the ESU program. This is a paid program between a client and Microsoft. This being the case, discussion of how to trick the update servers into thinking your computer is an ESU verified device is against the forum rules.

Forum arrangement is not up for community vote. Edit: topic was in the Windows 7 section.

I've never used that option. I always just search for drivers manually in the update catalog. Although i should point out that nearly all of my Windows 10 usage is done with integration in mind, and on a network with no internet access.

Topic merged.

Yet the GPIO driver caused the most recent crash in the dumps you provided.

A crash caused by a breakpoint can typically only be handled by the developer of the code that included the breakpoint. In general, it is a bad idea to release public code with a breakpoint in it without offering support for it. Now, the file that windbg complains about is the amdgpio2.sys. If this is an unmodified file from AMD, then I would say that this particular version should not be present. Or you can just not install the driver that put that in the system. In other words, you can't do anything if a breakpoint is what crashed the system, especially from binaries with no public symbols.

Especially if any of those SHA-1 signed updates are required to install SHA-2 support on a system. They wouldn't break that update chain would they?

-07 hit a breakpoint. Are you using beta or custom drivers?

Removed link to the APK.

It is a Panduit dp5e, just as in the op. After further research, this model number is just the frame and not for the modules. The one I posted a picture of is the DP5E with Cat6 MiniJack modules installed. You can get this model with punchdown modules or other types.

They should be tied to the profile. Are you logging into a domain, to MS or local? Are you using a cached or temporary profile?

backside picture for reference:

Scrolling on inactive windows is not really an OS feature. You can certainly do it in Windows 7, but I believe it has more to do with how the program is written than what OS it is running on. Maybe Win10 has something that overrides a program's default interaction, making it possible to do an inactive scroll even if it isn't supported? Regarding extra devices... when dealing with computers not in production or corporate environments... I just don't install drivers for stuff I don't use. IME and SoL are ... SOL.

I took a look at a few and they do not use a power supply. It is basically just a metal frame with RJ-45 couplers in it. The backside of the panel is where you connect the lines that connect to your individual wall outlets or what-have-you. Now since there is no shared connection in the panel itself, in order to use it to create a network, you need to use the front ports to connect into something. So on the ones I looked at, the fronts are all connected using short cables to a switch. That switch then connects to "the internet" (there's a bunch of stuff in-between the switch and the internet) Troubleshooting a link can be tricky. I recommend that you use the labels on the panel to match the labels on your ports. So you can easily look at the wall and know which port to look at on the panel. Depending on the complexity of your network, you have these segments: - between PC and wall outlet - between wall outlet and back of the panel (cable goes through wall) - between front of panel to other device (switch) - etc In the three segment arrangement, you can test each easily. I use an old router or some device with a link light and just check each end. Easiest to have to swap out a cable that is not in the wall for obvious reasons. I think over the past 9 years I've had to replace a few patch cables and a couple cables between computer and the wall. Not that the cables necessarily went bad, but maybe they fell out of tolerance. Obviously, your arrangement will vary from the example above. There is no right or wrong way to use a patch panel, and you can even use them without running cables through walls if you wanted to.

Boot the system using a WinPE, live cd or view the disk in another OS. Verify if the file it complains about is actually missing. If the file is actually missing, replace it and then try to boot the disk again. There are situations where a program (or OS) may complain about a file being missing when it is not actually missing. This can happen if the program or OS only knows the location of the required file by way of another file, such as an .ini, .xml, registry entry or environment variable. If that intermediary is missing, changed or corrupted such as to be pointing to the wrong place, then an error like this is possible. There are also situations where an intermediary points to a file, and the file isn't present, but the intermediary isn't active and the file is not supposed to be present. An example of this I've seen is bitlocker when scanning files for encryption will read the reagent.xml file and attempt to follow the paths inside to any files that are present. This fails on systems with WinRE disabled, since the files in the XML are not present and the reagent.xml is not used by anything. So this type of example shows a false positive to a file missing error. Hopefully it will just be a situation where the file it is complaining about is actually missing.

OK, so for a production scenario, the program should be tested in that environment. Not on a VM with 5 disks attached to it. Also the scope defined by op: Does not specifically state what combinations of disks may be present. If the VM example showing 6 disks is because there may be computers with a various amount of disks, not only do you have to find the supported disk sizes but also which Disk # that disk is. So if there is a system with a 120 GB, 200 GB and a 1 TB, you'd need to know which disk # matches to which disk. Is there a possibility of a system with 2 or more of the same disk sizes present? Is there the possibility that a system with a 200 GB and 1 TB disk has the 1 TB disk appear as Disk 0 and the 200 GB is disk 1? Is there the possibility that a system has a card reader that is detected by WinPE as disk 0 and the HDDs as Disk 1 and 2, or the card reader is Disk 1 and the HDDs are Disk 0 and 2? Because in the example code, this is using absolute disk numbering. It is taking for granted that the disk numbers and disk sizes attached to those numbers are expected and makes no consideration for the possibility they are not.

Is it possible that the tool with the lower value is being limited? Perhaps by session, such as only being able to see session >0 ?

Verify disk numbers. The 120 GB and 200 GB disks aren't likely to have the same disk number. In both script, you are using Disk 1.

Asus X509FB-EJ090T For nvidia drivers, know they have set OS version limitations in them, but did not change the text for requirements on their website. You may need to find an older version for your video controller rather than just use the newest on nvidia's website. Asus site only shows Win10 for this model. Need HwIDs for the intel, nvidia graphics. HwID for the touchpad will say who the manufacturer is, Synaptics or Elantec. Be aware that both those companies write drivers using a compat ID, meaning their software can install to the wrong hardware. For card reader, if it is Realtek there are usually only 2 models. I'm fairly certain they don't really have an OS version on their drivers, the drivers for Win7 work in Win10. They are either DEV_5229 or DEV_5289.

What is the model of the notebook?