pre-boot

  1. Safe OS Dynamic Updates for Windows 10 Legacy: WinRE Fixes Ahead of 2025 EOL

    Microsoft has quietly published a small set of Safe OS Dynamic Updates for legacy Windows 10 branches — KB5065918, KB5065307 and KB5065845 — delivering targeted improvements to the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) on September 9, 2025, and marking another step in the winding-down of Windows...
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    Windows 7 Bit Locker Questions

    Is anyone using BDE in an enterprise ervironment? I might be wrong but I have noticed some things. 1. I have not found a passsword policy to force the password change every 90 days. 2. If someone steals the laptop and uses a piece of software to crack the local admin password they can see...
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    Windows 7 Pre-boot tasks not running in Win 7 RC1

    I cannot get pre-boot tasks to work with Windows 7 RC1. For example, telling PerfectDisk to run a system files defrag, doing chkdsk, or scheduling a registry defragmenter to run before Windows boots. Windows will just boot up normally as if nothing has been scheduled. I have upgraded from...