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There may be a scheduled task present that is trying to run something. Run schtasks on elevated CMD and see if anything shows up there.

If you are having a problem on Firefox and have the developer add-on, you can do an inspect on something, then change to the network menu, and then click the next page. Then if there is some delay in some part of the process, it should be recorded there. The process is similar for Chrome, but that inspector window may show up on the right side of the browser instead of the bottom. Here is an example picture of what I am talking about in Firefox This may help to point to where the slowdown is.

You may want to run a trace on the program to see if it actually uses the registry to determine Service Pack level, or if it uses something else. I had a similar issue in the past concerning iTunes but was not able to determine a method to easily fool the program. It used some method other than reading the registry or the version of a particular file. I ended up not solving the issue, ending up with a broken iTunes...

Why, you can't do this thing? Text your email address. Reply to the email with a .wav or .mp3 attached. Then you get that on your phone, save and set it?

Ok so we can all agree that washing hands in hospitals and restaurants is important, and that apparently these signs are for employees... This type of sign, with these instructions, is well beyond the simple "employees must wash hands" sign you may see in a bathroom, or the giant STOP sign I see at say.. Wendys that says "STOP wash hands if passing this line" in which there is a line taped/painted to the floor and a sink is there too. It is the amount of detail put into it. It looks similar to the instruction cards you would see for how to help someone who is choking, or what to do if your airplane has crashed into the ocean. Specific scenarios that are not common knowledge and those instructional cards can be used in a pinch. Beyond the fact that we would expect any business would have informed their employees that they must wash their hands, as a course of job training, or that such information would be in their employee handbook. Part of a sign like this is the same issue you often run across, a company treating their employees like children. Then there is the other side of the coin. As I go into a business bathroom, and see the sign saying that employees must wash hands, indicates to me that if that sign were not there, the employees would not be doing that.

Confirm, it started yesterday at some point. I saw one page took 5 minutes to load. Earlier today when I was on, I tried to make a post but the reply never went through after about a half an hour.

Well first of all, there are two separate things being talked about here. First is what Microsoft says about Sysprep, which is following what sysprep is supposed to be used for in the first place, preparing an image for deployment. It is *not* required for an image to work, but you would want to use the generalize switch. Without it, your number one issue is that you would have multiple installations of Windows with the same SID. And NewSID hasn't worked to solve (or mostly solve) that issue since XP. It does not work in Vista or newer OS. There is no good reason to not use the generalize switch when using sysprep, at some point in the imaging process. Typically, to save deployment time, you use it prior to initial capture, but I have seen instances where companies would use it after deployment. But as stated earlier, moving a disk (or an imaged disk) from a working computer to a different working computer (changing the motherboard) is not what Sysprep was designed for and should not be used for such a thing. Windows XP is a lot easier to move between motherboards, because in the case where you can't get it to boot properly, a repair install often can solve that issue.

@alacran we have lost some information. Is it related to this? https://msfn.org/board/topic/177484-server-crashed-lost-data/ Or do you suspect something else?

What is "it" ? I've never once had to use sysprep to move a disk between boards.

Well, not why washing your hands, but why having to make a sign or infographic about it, and presumably need to hang it up in some building?

Sysprep is not designed for that purpose. In my experience, Sysprep takes longer on systems with more programs installed. Ultimately it depends on what is installed or what settings were made. My usual course of handling that situation is to remove the program that causes the problem. Typically I will create a disk image prior to using sysprep for any systems with at least 10 programs installed, so that I can easily go back when/if a problem occurs. As for transferring hard drives between boards... "for the instance of motherboard failure" >_> being licenses are not transferrable... I would take a disk image, then put the "copy" disk on the new board, boot it up and see if it works.

I'm on Firefox 59.0.2 x86.

No of course, not. You could only get the 8.1 with Bing from Dell for a Dell product. The version that Dell has is not special in any way, all OEMs get the same software to make their own products with. It is just that particular version of software is not available to the public. So if you needed it for recovery purposes, you would request/purchase that media from the company who makes the device, ie Dell. I really haven't looked at 8.1 with Bing for some time due to not being able to get drivers for hardware... not including the tedious requirements to manufacture devices using that OS due to technical limitations. I'm still not entirely sure how products like that are imaged to begin with... I would presume the NANDs (eMMC/SSD/etc) get imaged prior to soldering, alas those who already do this work will not tell you this secret... or give you their drivers.

Is that an F5 joke? The page changer dohickey uses AJAX, if that means anything. For me, changing between pages work but it shows the loading thing for about 5 seconds before showing me the correct page.

Yes, it says exactly what you should run (using SLUI) to see the actual error... because some dumb reason, Slmgr can't tell you what the error is. So when you run slmgr -ato, and it says something like "On a computer running Microsoft Windows non-core edition, run slui.exe 0x00 0x00000000 to display the error text" If you run the exact command it says in that message, it will show you the error text which will give the answer to whatever hex code it shows you in the message. Running that command only shows you the translation of the hex code in the error and does nothing else. If you want to troubleshoot your activation issue, run this in an elevated command prompt and past the report.txt into here and I can take a look see. Licensingdiag.exe -report %userprofile%\desktop\report.txt -log %userprofile%\desktop\repfiles.cab

Open an elevated command prompt and run this command: Licensingdiag.exe -report %userprofile%\desktop\report.txt -log %userprofile%\desktop\repfiles.cab Post the contents of the report.txt in a reply.

Since it seems you can easily replicate the slowness issue, you should use Process Monitor to see what is actually happening at the time. For the computer name issue, I believe you should have NetBIOS over TCP/IP enabled on both/all of the computers in order for workgroup name resolution to work. Otherwise, you can set hostnames and their IP addresses in the HOSTS file manually.

Similar to this issue I replicated with the Windows 8.1 update on GPT disks, where the original recovery partition had attributes of 0x8000000000000001, then after the update, Windows changed those attributes to 0x8000000000000000, and then created an additional recovery partition with 0x8000000000000001. https://msfn.org/board/topic/169284-windows-81-creates-2nd-recovery-partition/

Files or folder with blue text instead of black text indicate that they are compressed.

Merged threads and renamed thread title.

When I first used the cell phone activation thing, we had to do it like you say. Because the wireless signal in the area was very poor, our phones could get texts, but not access the internet very well. We had to either go outside! or use some actual computer on the LAN to access that website.

Couldn't the use of proxy websites be used in this situation? Such as going through Google Translate to view a page, even if you choose incorrect languages so that the text isn't changed. I recall this being a possibility before, but also I used to know other websites that you could use to view other sites, acting as a page proxy because "technically" the traffic wasn't coming from your or TOR, but from that websites. Alternatively, if you had the link to a page you wanted to go but couldn't for these reasons, you could "archive it" and then view the archive link, such as the popular archive.is. But this wouldn't work well for any sort of traversal.

The partition attribute has likely changed. You can try to run the attributes command I put in my previous post. I am not certain "how" the attributes work. MS only lists 4 or 5 of them and of course the one I put earlier is not there. I am wondering becuase 0x1 is "required" and 0x8000000000000000 is "no drive letter" if the 0x8000000000000001 is a combination of the two.

Yeah I need the detail part, not vol. If that GUID is present already (the one jaclaz posted) then it would show in there. If the ID is not present, then in diskpart you can run: sel part x set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac" yet there is also an attribute used, and this command (which has 14 zeroes in it) gpt attributes=0x800000000000001 Which are the commands used during deployment onto a recovery partition. In typical use, this partition is not visible after a restart from explorer, despite assigning a letter to it during deployment. However, there is the possibility that Windows (or the diskpart in Windows) will not allow for these commands to be run, and then they would need to be run using a WinPE instead. BUT I have hestitation to direct you to run these commands on that partition, as I have never had to run them in this scenario. There is the possibility that running them could cause the OS not to boot. So I would recommend that a known good disk image be created before attempting anything like this.

Can you post a detail part and detail vol on that partition?