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Here I will outline a situation where you can corrupt a mount point and an image by using a system with multiple versions of DISM. We already know that there is some differences between the DISM that comes with Windows and the one in the WAIK/ADK (hereafter referred to as ADK). This difference is beyond the stock DISM not supporting all command line options. It is important to note this, as we do have the technical ability to have multiple ADK versions installed or by using JFX's Get WAIK Tools to skip the large download. NOTE: This applies to all versions of Windows and WAIK/ADK versions. This problem has 2 parts. One is recoverable, the other one is not 100%. There are 4 problems. Problem #1: Stock DISM is the default. DISM exists in c:\windows\system32. Even if you cd into say c:\adk10\ and that is where your DISM from ADK v10 is kept, if you just type DISM, Windows will execute the one in System32. You need to fully qualify the DISM command in order to execute the one you want. Problem #2: You can mix DISM versions interchangeably and it doesn't care. You have mounted an image with ADK DISM. You can then run commands using any other DISM, even if those versions do something different or do not fully support the mounted image. Problem #3: DISM doesn't know all the mount points. You can mount multiple images, or even nested images, but /CLEANUP-WIM shows that it does not know all the mount points. Problem #4: Windows protects files based on filename. You may have run into this situation before. You have a folder called Windows or Program Files somewhere that is not part of your booted OS, but Windows won't let you delete it. Recoverable Situation - Mount image using ADK DISM to c:\mount - Add-driver using stock DISM. In this scenario, stock DISM can't actually add a driver to the image, but it still tries. The DISM.exe process will start gobbling up memory. It will do this until the process crashes or your computer does. It also will lock the command prompt so that Ctrl+C will not cause the process to stop. You can kill the process and then clean-up the mount point. Unrecoverable/Corruption Situation - Mount image using ADK DISM to c:\mount - Mount nested image using ADK DISM to c:\mount2 - Add-driver using stock DISM. In this scenario, we wanted to add a driver to a nested wim. One example of a nested wim could be winre.wim. Here, the same as the last scenario happens, DISM can't add the driver and starts incrementing RAM usage. DISM process goes away (crash/kill process) then you can run /CLEANUP-WIM, but only mount2 is cleaned up. Here is what happens next: 1. c:\mount still has the mounted image in it. 2. DISM /CLEANUP-WIM doesn't see it as a valid mount point. 3. DISM /UNMOUNT /DISCARD gives you an error. 4. You can't delete everything in the folder because of Windows file protection. 5. You can't remount your image to another folder because DISM says that index is already mounted. You can get past the issue by never using that mount folder again, but you can rename it and probably move it somewhere else. I encountered the corrupt image situation just once (enough for me to make this thread) and played it safe by deleting the .wim file and restoring a backup and THEN rename the file. Even if you delete and restore, DISM will tell you the image is already mounted. If you rename it, then it can be mounted again to a new location. So just a word of caution for anyone using multiple ADK or DISMs on the same system to service images.

The use of Kerenal instead of Kernel seems to have a large relation to posters from India, and I suspect that it is a romanization or translation artifact. In either case, @Dibya should make an effort to spell the word correctly, especially when talking about a known file name such as Kernel32. This should be done not only because it is annoying to our users (see above) but also so that if people were to search for Kernel/32 in Google, they will be able to find these threads and might join in the conversation.

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It would just be to rule out any potential "list" issue or filtering. It could be that your email host is filtering the email out as spam, or that Microsoft won't send to that domain because it is on a blacklist. It is just something to try, to rule out some communication issue in between the sites.

I almost forgot that QuickTime was a thing. How nice that DHS says to remove it, yet they do not offer a list of alternative programs that can play .QT files.

Re-request and/or maybe try providing a different email address.

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.CHM content is different. Those in OEM or System Builder Channel will find helpful policy info in the .CHMs. Also unattend.chm is fully index and searchable, much easier to use than the help files in ADKs. The only thing I use the OPK for now is the help files.

What size screen is on that notebook? I wonder if it is a small screen, if it switched to that mode because of it. I've been testing a notebook with a 14" screen and the default Windows view is too big for it. For example, if you open Settings, the button items are cut off and you get a scroll bar.

Did Server Fault delete the thread? The link from the article goes to a 404.

Well that would be for if you had an FTP server on the computer. For Windows to act as a client, you shouldn't need to open any ports on the firewall to connect to an FTP site. This is partly because Windows Firewall is quite passive on outbound connections. The only thing you may need to do is add your FTP client to the exclusion list, but I've never had to do this. Since you said you have the firewall disabled, it doesn't matter. You can see your subnet on the Windows PC in CMD by using ipconfig -all. The subnet needs to match on the PC and on the phone. BUT, this may only be true if the PC is also connected to wireless or you are using an adhoc network. If you are using a wireless router, see if there isn't any isolation set up for wireless clients. Same as if the PC is wired and the phone is wireless, some routers isolate the traffic between both networks. I would say that you probably should stick with using CMD FTP to verify you can connect, then switch to a more comfortable GUI once you get it to work. So how is your network set up? Can your computer see other wireless systems? Regarding ports, you can see a diagram (showing server and client) as well as ftp commands for connecting here: http://www.slacksite.com/other/ftp.html It may be interesting to note that the FTP program in CMD uses the LUnix commands and not Windows ones, so the ones in that example will work fine. Also, the standard FTP ports are 20 and 21, however in real world you may run into other ports, such as if the server is using SFTP, TLS, etc, not to mention some implementations may use custom port numbers for reasons. http://www.rebex.net/kb/secure-ftp/

How exactly does this apply for a computer?

The first test on that page is to get a response via SNMP/ping. SNMP response need not to be enabled for FTP to work. Did you try to connect using "Test 2" at all? What happens with that? You posted your phone's IP before, do you know the subnet and have you made sure your PC and your phone is on the same IP range and subnet?

First 4 links on this thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/154868-importpatcher41-find-and-fix-dependency-problems/#comment-985957 1st is a 404 (uses different path) Other 3 are 500. Also see test posts.

Different phone models may act differently, also how are you connecting to it? Are you on the same subnet? Do you need to enable sharing on the phone? etc.

Nothing. Those aren't selling points. And even so, if you have Windows 10 already, they aren't "hey you might want to upgrade so you can do x" because your OS is going to upgrade whether you like it or not.

You will need to activate eventually. You have 30 days from the date of install before the OS goes into Notification and disables Personalization. If you have connection to the internet now, you can type in your product key and activate online.

Its a nice article but there seems to be too much FUD about it. So they have made a POC extension that is able to do the things the article talks about. The article is really about how Firefox does not have isolation in how it handles add-ons, meaning that the add-ons themselves can use and re-use each others' vars. And they just name drop all the popular ones to grab your attention and get the search hits.

Need to know model of computer or motherboard.

There are a couple of things relating to Windows indexing XML files. Take a look at these: https://forums.logitech.com/t5/Mice-and-Pointing-Devices/my-OS-is-win-7-m510-does-not-save-the-mouse-settings-for-speed/td-p/1303523 https://forums.logitech.com/t5/Mice-and-Pointing-Devices/M510-drops-custom-settings/td-p/1015301

Maybe we can look it up. What model mouse do you have?

Well both of these have apparently happened. Someone sued Seagate because they didn't know the difference between base10 and base2 (it does not seem to bring in post file system size) http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2007/10/26/seagate_lawsuit_concludes_settlement_announced/1 Apple lawsuit over space (also mentions a similar one vs Microsoft over the Surface, same thing): http://www.techrepublic.com/article/lawsuit-against-apple-for-ios-storage-misrepresentation-get-the-facts/ The Seagate example is forgivable. For the mobile devices, I think the lesson should be that you don't advertise the space. So you don't call it "the 64GB" model. How should mobile devices be handled when it comes to storage? Make it so the included space is for the OS and if the user wants to save data then they use a memory card? Or maybe put 2 flash storage in there, one un-advertised amount of space that the OS uses specifically, and another for user storage especially in the case where there is no memory card slot.

If running WinPE in Ramdisk (as opposed to flat) the boot image is extracted and run from RAM. The .wim size is the compressed size. So you boot image is a minimum the file size plus whatever you are actually running. The actual size can be determined by using Imagex /info on the .wim file, the XML should tell you how big it actually is. Or you could deploy/recapture with using /compress:none, then the .wim size should be actual extracted size.

These kind of articles are written like they are talking about some future scifi world. Sure this type of highway control system could exist, but would only make sense if it were on its own. Segregated roadways that can be computer controlled and the only regular traffic would be the computer controlled vehicles. That will be required because regular "old fashioned" cars will still exist for a long time.

I believe they are covered by the disclaimer that less than advertised space is available. For example, from Verizon's website for iPhone SE: