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Your picture with the 995 message is not loading for me, it shows a blue "image not found" image.

Bad word filter is working properly. This new version is even "smart" enough to no longer censor Fukushima!

There seems to be some information missing from the report... BUT it also notes the service is not available. You need to revert any changes you made in regards to the Software Licensing Protection Service, and then run the report again. Based just on this, it would appear that the active product key cannot unlock the OS. It will not try to activate if LocalGenuineState says anything besides Genuine. Does this computer have a Windows COA on it or does it just have the Windows 8 sticker? examples: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/howtotell/Hardware.aspx?tab=PCPurchase

You can see what the program is doing by using Process Monitor. Open ProcMon, add the process names to the filte, then you start monitoring and then run your program that generates the error. As soon as the error appears, stop the monitor. If this is the first time you are running ProcMon, sometimes it will start as soon as you open and/or accept the EULA. In that case, stop the monitor, then clear the log, then add the things to the filter. If there are no leads from that, you may want to enable the advanced output (under Filter). However, using ProcMon may be a problem concerning some games. It may be useful enough for detecting an OS check error, but some games have DRM that will not run if ProcMon is active, or has been run at some point during the current Explorer session. Something I ran into when trying to debug NHL 08 many moons ago. So there is the potential to get an altogether different error when trying to run the game, if that game has any detection response to programs like that.

Certainly install media may have some in there. I do not remember exactly, but it is likely the image I used had some updates in it already, more than stock DVD would. You will likely find that OEM Recovery DVDs will not have a lot of updates in them, because those increase the ISO size and it is more expensive to have the Replicator press onto Dual Layer discs...

Since Windows 8.0 was released. MS originally didn't want to release a 32bit OS with Windows 8 and later, but the business community (aka their customers) reacted as expected aka badly. So now we have 32bit OS still around thanks to that.

What hardware are you testing on or are you using a VM? I remember not seeing any systems with UEFI capability in the desktop boards until 2011, so there was no way for me to test these capabilities when Vista (or even SP1) came out. It was a thing on Server boards, but the ones I remember having UEFI 2.0 would only allow an EFI boot with RAID enabled. And then by 2011, I was only trying to get UEFI PXE boot to work. I recall those "early" days of UEFI 2.3.1, it took manufacturers a bit of time to iron out the bugs in their implementation. If you are using hardware for testing, you probably want to use something from 2013 or newer.

I only install updates as need be. On my newest build, it has just the service pack for Windows 7 in it, and any updates that were "required" when installing specific programs, or any that were redists that were installed by programs.

Since it only has 2 GB RAM, I can guess it is going to be architecture locked to booting 32bit EFI applications only. So make your USB key using the boot media for Windows 10 32bit OS, and set it to boot EFI.

Yeah, there are tasks for each of those, but you cannot see them. You would need to impersonate our favorite security context, Trusted Installer, to even see them. But seeing the output like this, all in one place, is better than dealing with the Task Scheduler, which buried everything in a bunch of folders... Which is the "folders" you are seeing being referenced, not folders on your hard drive. Start first with disabling tasks that you know are relating to services or options you have disabled. Even if something is disabled, a task may exist to attempt something, and when it cannot (or a child process cannot) then you can get a log in event viewer. The Task Scheduler in Windows Vista and newer OS is one thing I never cared for. It seems like everything got way more complicated for some reason.

When you say XP Emulation mode, do you mean the "XP Mode" virtual machine? https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh859554.aspx When I upgraded to Windows 7, I just basically put a blank hard drive into my XP computer and then installed Win7 on it. I still have full access to the other disks that were in my XP computer, and even most programs can be run from those old installations! Microsoft Office need not apply, however. For an email client, I can only recommend Mozilla Thunderbird, but it can have difficulties with some MS Exchange configurations.

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.