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It is not a problem with your account, as I was able to confirm your account can post into that thread. I would try again, or trying using a different browser just for a test.

There are two problems. 1. This is a Dell OS and it is not on an appropriate Dell motherboard. 2. There is something removed by nLite that has resulted in incomplete information in the MGADiag report. I would surmise that even if this OS was installed on the correct Dell board, it may still not work.

@NoelC are you comparing OS states from before vs after the Spectre/Meltdown updates?

The only (Activation) Product Keys I know that can "expire" are Volume License. Either because the Partner let their account lapse or the keys were blacklisted because they were leaked online and new keys were issued to the original party. If you can still boot into the OS proper, run MGADiag and post the results into here. Perhaps there is another reason why the OS won't activate.

At least, that is, that you know of. Regarding cloud hosting (or heck even just an FTP someplace) you put your trust in the host to keep your stuff secure from others and also that the host won't be snooping around themselves. And you would never know if that trust is broken. Some people just can't put that amount of trust into a company, especially when they see data storage companies being hacked and acting badly almost every day.

It is done, ユカルミャ

The depends shown in that thread with the screenshot looks different than mine, so I would expect it to be an older version. Note that you will get errors with Depends on a modern OS due to the fact that it can't resolve some symbol or link files, and show weird, and you have to figure out what the actual file is that it represents. You will know these because they have hyphens in them. And sometimes it will show a dependency that it says is not present (it shows up in red) but is actually present. IEshims.dll seems to do this a lot, but the file is actually present.

OK for the file in the wayback link (referred to as setup.exe) I can see it is running InstallShield, and the manifest is present and requires Microsoft Windows Common Controls v6.0 x86. So there is your first requirement. I have no issue seeing dependencies on this exe, but I do see that teh File OS data in VS_VERSION_INFO says "DOS (Windows16)" which I am not sure if it is worth noting. But it is not saying the EXE is a 16bit file, as I did a test install to get the contents on a 64bit OS. Dependency Walker v2.2.6000 (x86) can also open the setup.exe without error. WscGuard.exe shows the expected WINDOWS32 data for File OS, but the dependencies are much different. Can you do a walkthrough or post a picture of what exactly you are trying to open?

Why not just make it not update if it is installed on XP or Vista? I'd imagine the "launcher" portion of Steam would continue to work, such as the redeem, drop-downs and the game library. If they are saying that they will make it so you can't play your games anymore, that would be a big problem. If things keep the same way, eventually they would just do that to me and my Windows 7 Steam computers and say I'd need to use Windows 11 or whatever. And there aren't "several" XP games on Steam, there are thousands, maybe even tens of thousands. And going forward, would the Steam client allow you to buy and install XP games from a Windows 10 system? Such as: Return to Castle Wolfenstein: https://store.steampowered.com/app/9010/ Which is 2000/XP. I'm sure that it would since I already know the Steam client will allow a purchase and attempt install of a 64bit game on a 32bit OS.

It may depend on the OS. ALT+Space does work on the CMD on the Windows 7 32bit that I tested on. Is what is displayed in the CMDs even important? Because if not, you can just put up a "please wait" message, and run those CMDs minimized so that they do not appear at all.

No longer? You did just register about a day since you made this post.

I hope it was not any links from the past 3 months.

With focus, your typical CMD or program can be minimized using a keyboard like so: ALT+SPACE, N And to restore it is: ALT+SPACE, R Presuming focus is retained. If focus is lost, then any such script would need to select the UI object first before sending those keys. So it would probably be best if that method is used in both instances. BUT... I'm not sure that I am grasping the design of the application. If the desire is that some of the code is to be hidden from view so that the users do not see it, then shown again later when things are safe to view or as a message indicating the task is complete, then perhaps a different approach should be used instead.

It is changed.

If those do not work, you can unplug your hard drives and try that way. Normally, if Windows has gone to hibernate, you won't be able to enter setup, as the computer is not really in an off state, thus POST does not occur.

For USB 3.0 there are usually 2 drivers you need to add. For intel, they have a driver for the controller and also for the hub. VIA may be similar (edit as cdob says in that thread). Also, if you are using a stock boot.wim, make sure you are injecting your drivers into Image Index 2. Also make sure to use a Windows 7 SP1 source.

WannaCry uses the EternalBlue exploit. https://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/windows/smb/ms17_010_eternalblue

0x7B is storage driver missing.

In a regular DVD, you can access the command prompt with Shift+F10.

It is designed to prompt for a product key unless one of these conditions are met: 1. The ProductKey/Key value is specified in the XML 2. The Edition or explicit path is specified in the XML with "/image/index" in ProductKey/Key value. 3. Specify edition in ei.cfg and have the associated default product key specified in pid.txt. Here is info about ei.cfg and pid.txt. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/windows-setup-edition-configuration-and-product-id-files--eicfg-and-pidtxt So take a look if your ei.cfg and pid.txt are causing the supression of the product key prompt.

That is a redirector, where did it usually end up? Now it goes to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ Are you saying that the browsers will show an error and keep the redirector URL in the address bar?

The only government contracts that I have worked on have dealt with either Windows 10 Enterprise or Windows IoT. So far, the only editions of Windows 10 that are decent enough to consider using, despite the amount of hoops required to jump through to get those versions.

The timing of this is weird to the point where it makes me wonder if it is really faulty or if they decided to take a different approach after Linus Torvalds complaints.

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I think there are a fair amount of Linux users on this forum, they just don't seem to talk about it very much, outside of the side comment "I also use this."