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I never really looked into the notifications archive. There doesn't seem to be a way to selectively prune old notification, at least per user.

Here is a recent take (and a tech review)

All Users is not a folder, it is a symbolic link. I mounted a wim and tried to follow the All Users link, but it tells me "The symbolic link cannot be followed because its type is disabled." Actually, I have my mount folder as a network share. It does not work this way. From the actual system, it does allow the symbolic link to be followed, and will then show the contents of c:\users\all users inside of mount\users\all users. It is Windows that is doing this.

BAE is a military technology company, BAE Systems. Although, I recall there was a thing called BAE Linux at some point in the past.

Unfortunately, no. You can't trust the board enough. I recommend that when you install your OS, you use your board's boot menu to manually select your bootable device. Even with Legacy set on all, UEFI is not disabled, and you may end up seeing UEFI boot options in the the boot menu anyways. For important steps like installing an OS, I always use the boot menu because I want to be completely sure it is doing exactly what I want it to do. Even on some recent boards, the boot menu will give UEFI boot options for DOS volumes... I also recommend that your 3TB not be connected to the computer at all (power is ok) until after Windows is installed. Windows Setup can sometimes decide to write the boot files onto other disks, or even install Windows on teh wrong disk if you are not careful. Again, it is easier to just unplug the extra drives during this process so you can know exactly what is going on.

This is the example from the unattend.chm: <ImageInstall> <OSImage> <InstallFrom> <Credentials> <Domain>FabrikamDomain</Domain> <Password>MyPassword</Password> <Username>MyUsername</Username> </Credentials> <Path>\\networkshare\share\install.wim</Path> <MetaData wcm:action="add"> <Key>/IMAGE/NAME</Key> <Value>FabrikamCustomOSImage</Value> </MetaData> </InstallFrom> <InstallTo> <DiskID>0</DiskID> <PartitionID>1</PartitionID> </InstallTo> <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI> <InstallToAvailablePartition>false</InstallToAvailablePartition> </OSImage> </ImageInstall> So you path directly to the location of the WIM file. The example using Key /IMAGE/NAME is unchanged, the value you put into "Value" is the name of the image inside of the wim. If you want to specify an Image Index instead, you can put /IMAGE/INDEX, and value is 1, or whatever number. If you put Key /IMAGE/NAME and have no value, and your wim only has one index, it will work for that. If you do not specify Path (or do not put in Path object) then it will look to Sources folder for the install.wim.

Yes it is incorrect, but it is the fault of the wording. It should be that if you set your boot type to UEFI, then the disk your OS resides on must* be GPT. But, if you have no UEFI, or set your boot type to Legacy/CSM/BIOS, your OS disk can be MBR. Then if you put in another disk, it can be MBR or GPT. The key is booting an OS. You can't normally boot an MBR disk with UEFI boot enabled, nor boot a GPT disk with Legacy enabled.* Also in "normal" situations. There do exist systems or even firmware versions of consumer boards where these rules do not apply, but 99.9% of the time you won't run into a system like this. *officially supported situations. Some smart people have figured out ways around it, as PoC, but I wouldn't use it outside of testing unless specifically required.

The Hardware ID of the devices (if there are more than one that appear) would be a lot better. If the drivers are not installed, they may appear as a problem device in MSinfo32.exe.

Removed two spam posts from this thread.

I am in "plenti twilight zone" where they originally had the Wellness card, but I rejected the Plenti privacy agreement. So I do not use the card anymore. But I cannot lie to the cashier when they ask "do you have" and yes ma'am, I do have it but I won't be using it. DON'T YOU WANT TO SAVE MONEY?!

I haven't used it in a long time, but I do know that some specific characters in passwords would cause that program to never complete or it would show a blank entry. But what does "anymore" really mean. No two Windows 7 OS is going to be the same outside of a lab environment, and there are multiple versions of that software.

Well, sysprep doesn't do any of this actually. What it does do is create the unattend.xml. If you specify one with /unattend switch or not, it will make one. If you look in the setupact.log file in UnattendGC, you will be able to see that msoobe.exe is what reads the XML and then runs the commands. Do a test deployment and then take a look at the log to see how things are being handled. The key to remember is that sysprep only runs until the system is shut down. When you turn it back on again, or on first boot after redeploy, sysyprep does not run again.

There is only the option to automatically save the AutoRecover backup file, not the main file itself. Otherwise (besides the 3rd party tools surely to be put into this thread later by spammers) the way it can be done is apparently with the use of a macro, like this: https://word.tips.net/T000157_A_Real_AutoSave.html

Partition for the recovery image is not bootable. If used, it would only store the .wim file that the recovery partition (WinRE or 3rd party) used to restore the original factory image. It would be between 5-whatever GB. However there are some companies that do other things such as not having a partition to store recovery image (it would be on the DVD only) or there is only 1 recovery partition that has both the WinRE and the .wim file, or third party solution could be a number of different things. If you need specific help on these systems, then you would need to share disk layout information.

Apple made some new IoT nonsense and one of their selling points is that you can integrate across all of your Apple devices with the Apple ID. I guess we aren't at full saturation yet where regular people think that is a bad idea.

The original boot-land url is giving a 404, but I cannot get to reboot.pro at the moment.

If only Windows 7 authentication was handled by MySQL!

It depended on the disk type at upgrade. In one way, the upgrade would replace the original recovery partition and in another way it would leave it and add a new one. You wouldn't be able to boot into it unless you edited the BCD. In either case or OS, it would not touch additional partitions such as if it had a partition for the recovery image.

In my own experience, 512MB RDRAM was faster (better/whatever in XP) than 1GB DDR. It wasn't until I was able to get a board/cpu with DDR2 did I abandon Rambus on my main XP PC. And by that time, 1GB wouldn't cut it anymore anyways. This is why it is now in my Win98.

A voodoo card isn't required, it is just a favorite. On AGP you can go up to 250MB VRAM so there are a lot more options. The only real reason to use a Voodoo card now is if you want to run Glide and that could be specific enough to warrant another computer to run those games. Here are my computer's specs for reference: Mainboard: Intel D850MV CPU: Intel Pentium IV 2.0GHz RAM: 768MB RDRAM PC800 Video: Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT 256MB Note that the P4 on an Intel board require a 400W PSU. It can run just about anything but it has Windows 98FE, so no actual DOS is present.

You don't need a product key for reinstalling a Windows 10 free upgrade type. For making that media, you can still use MS website: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

They never have had the reason to bother with marketing like that. Because of their market share and channel policies, it is business as usual, they can just force people into the new version and no one can do anything about it. They only had commercials for Windows 10 when it was still possible to purchase a computer with Windows 7 or 8.1 from the OEM (but not retail) market. Now, their advertising is only about specific devices. Some are Surface related, others are really just ads for their featured partners like HP for some model of notebook. And notice that, all the ads I ever see is for mobile devices, never for normal desktops.

Are you saying welcome to us or making yourself welcome?

There isn't much new to be said about Windows 10. It feels like a feeling of helplessness has overtaken everyone. I still try to avoid it. I do not like to use it, but the complaint is merely Explorer related. I'm sure it would be a lot better using a custom shell.

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