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Blame Europe: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm A lot of websites just did a cya and made the notification enabled for everyone. I believe it is something the forum software does automatically.

Not knowing exactly what you had experienced, I would guess it is related to how the OS can only have 1 gateway at a time. It doesn't matter if you are connecting two interfaces to one or two to two. When using automatic settings, when you connect to a new network, it will use the gateway as assigned by the DHCP server and then the existing gateway will no longer be used and the new one will. It can switch anytime a renew is done. The outward appearance to this is that you can "lose connection" when using a setup this way. It is not recommended to connect to multiple dhcp servers unless they are specifically set up to allow full access on both networks, or to use static IPs where one has a gateway (usually for internet traffic) and the other does not. This is not limited to Windows.

I doubt that any software has recorded what created the file, I think that is what you are asking. You can try opening the file in a hex editor/strings viewer and see if Word had written the original file location in there somewhere.

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It indicates that there is a fair amount of private contracts with companies that are still paying for extended support on XP. More-so than to make patches specifically available to those companies and it would be easier to make it available on the enterprise level of update support, the WSUS catalog and the MS Catalog update site.

On Vista, isn't it also required to disable the automatic defrag or am I thinking of something else?

Split to new topic, change title as you see fit. This guide, even made for WinPE2 or 3, is still valid for creating a WinPE 10 boot wim.

One I do not understand is on Twitter. There are promoted tweets, which are ads. If that promoted tweet has a video on it, sometimes then that video will play an ad first. It is too much for me to handle this type of situation. I block the accounts where that happens, except for NHL.

I'm not sure how accidental hero it is. There are some people that will register non-existant domains that are seen in advertisements or other forms of media just because.

Does it not work already? Can you post your SSD model number?

You can also disable password expiry with wmic, but the command needs the user account name: wmic useraccount where "name='Support'" set PasswordExpires=false I use a command like that in a .cmd I run in FirstLogonCommands for custom deployments.

I typically use BisonCam / BisonCam NB Pro for testing various webcams. You can find this as the camera software for the webcams on most notebooks (Microstar, Sager, Lenovo, HP, etc). It may be labelled with a driver, but not using the driver the software has worked with (at least) testing the functionality of any webcam I have found in 10 years or so. The software installs per-user.

Does there exist a list of all the protocols, destinations and ports that a Windows 10 system tries to communicate with?

Not true. All Skylake systems that do not have an OS supplied by one of these 12 OEMs are also under the same situation as the Kaby Lake CPUs.

RunOnce will execute under the current user context at logon. Without using something else to execute the file, you will need to invoke the rights within the .cmd file itself. There is the runas command, which you can specify a different user account to run a command with, but I believe you cannot script in a password. So it would only be useful for an account in the Administrators group (or custom group with appropriate permissions) that did not have a password on it. You should look into use Task Scheduler instead. There is more freedom to setting up the condition that way. You can say, when x user logs on, run this program as this other user.

You open Regedit. Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and make sure it is selected on the left. Click File-> Load Hive. Browse to the other hard drive to a location \Windows\System32\Config. Select the file called SYSTEM (not system.log). It will ask for a name, call it "mount_system". Now everything in there from the left is the hive from the other hard drive. You make your changes. When you are done, it is very important that you select the loaded hive on the left "mount_system" and then File->Unload Hive. You can then close regedit. Always make sure to do this or there can be problems. Regarding the registry files, there is no main file. Loading the different hives under the different main groups (HKEY_CURRENT_USER, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, etc) will load different things. If you do not know which to load, fine a relative key in your regular registry. If it is HKLM\Software, you load the SOFTWARE hive under HKLM. If it is HKLM\System, then you load the SYSTEM hive. And always make sure you give the loaded hive a name that indicates it what it is, and do not give it a name that matches an existing one. If you are concerned about goofing up, make a backup of the hives on the other drive first.

When they crash, do they create anything in the Application event log?

It is a strange thing, because the Windows store was created with the vision that filesystem access was not to be allowed at all... and now MS makes and OS where the only way to install "normal" desktop programs is through the store.

Another thing you can try is to use DISM to install the drivers into the online image, by copying the driver files onto the drive someplace, and setting it to run a .cmd on first boot. You could say, put it into Startup folder or another way. Then when the PC boots, DISM would install the drivers using /online option instead of /image. Or even you can trigger the silent install of the Intel USB3 setup.exe with the flag to reboot. EDIT: I forgot. There is a situation where you won't be able to use the new drivers if the old drivers exist. This effects certain Intel USB2/3 drivers whereas the INF is written in such a way that it will trigger the HwID check in the Driver Model to apply to the incorrect device. This happens because there is one Intel USB2 and 1 Intel USB3 device that have the same HwID, have different drivers (not interchangeable) and the INFs do not use full HwID to the SUBSYS and CC. If this is the case for you, the old drivers need to be removed. Two situations I've seen with these controllers is either USB does not work or bugcheck on boot.

I think it depends on how Origin goes about determining which OS it is installed/running on. If no one knows how it is done, then you'd need to see what Origin does on both a compatible and non-compatible system with a debugger or Process Monitor. But I think such a thing as simple as that would fall under the "reverse engineer" prohibition on 1.A. of the Origin EULA: http://eacom.s3.amazonaws.com/EULA_Origin_EN-ROW_PC_5.26.16.pdf So the only recourse would be to ask on an official EA or Origin forum.

Does this present a scenario where you had a perfectly working thing, then the software updated and now it says you can't use it?

Same as this: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174021-startisback-20/?page=37#comment-1138506

Well the question is how to add drivers to an existing installation, not what you have posted. Unless you know some trick to do a repair install/in-place upgrade to get the drivers to be used.

Well not specifically, just that MS is more inclined to base their decisions on the market sector in which they make the most money from. When it comes to the current market, with more people not buying new computers (except for work or school reasons) and increasingly filling that gap with tablets or phones, the retail desktop market has shrunken incredibly.

It may be possible to use DISM to add the driver, but I have not tried to do it with an offline HDD. It is designed to work with mount points. I think that you can do a test by getting the driver info. I suspect if that works, then you could add a driver. You need a WinPE3 or higher and the USB3 drivers in the PE image or on another USB device. And of course, your WinPE3 needs to have the USB3 support. It may be worthwhile to use a WinPE4-10 instead as they have better USB3 support built-in. If you do not have a WinPE to boot, you can use a Windows 8.1 or 10 Setup disk (no XML in it) and at the first screen use SHIFT+F10 to get the cmd. First you need to find which volume has your OS on it. You can use diskpart or the guess and test. For the example, I will pretend your OS is on drive N: Use this command to see if DISM will service this OS: DISM /IMAGE:N:\ /GET-DRIVERS If DISM gives the driver list, then the chances are better to add the drivers. But DISM may complain it is not an image. This is the command to add the driver (example) DISM /IMAGE:N:\ /ADD-DRIVER /DRIVER:d:\folder\iusb3xhc.inf DISM /IMAGE:N:\ /ADD-DRIVER /DRIVER:d:\folder\iusb3hub.inf When you add the Intel USB3 driver, if the driver for your device has the two files (whatever and hub) then you need to add both. Some Intel USB3 does not have the two files in the download package, so then it is ok to just add the one.