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Hello! I want to use active Windows installation to test its behavior after installing any new software to avoid problems. I know that's possible by virtual machine with the same OS and test them there. But problem is when I'm working in time on real Windows it changes and virtual machine is...

Hi! I managed few accounts on my fresh Windows 10.1909 install with not correctly entered account names. I want to change them - it is possible in case of name, but is possible to change also path to user folder and its content? Example: Incorrectly is created account C:\users\miiro Needs fix...

It seems that the entire key and its subkeys of : [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wuauserv] has been deleted by a recent update somehow. I found a registry file to merg and it worked....HOWEVER, it found 2 updates, one is the security update for .netframe 3 and .NET 4...

Recently I installed (from a CD) Windows XP Professional on my computer. The installation went well. When I looked at "About Windows", the box said that Service Pack 1 was already present. Then I proceeded to install Service Packs 2 and 3. Number two installed OK, but Service Pack 3 gave...

On my laptop Asus HDD is Disk0. I have installed Windows on SSD but Recovery Partition is on HDD (Disk0), also EFI System Partition. My laptop has only one SATA port so I cannot change to other port SATA. In BIOS settings in SATA configuration I have only two options, AHCI and Intel RST Premium...

I have bought a 500GB SSD to be the system disk on my old PC. The HDD that is now the C: drive will hold user files, not windows system files in future. I have read up on installing Windows on a new drive and I have one question: at what stage in the installation of Windows does the new SSD...

Confusion reigns.. I have had at least 5 power state failures since purchasing the Dell with win10 (which I purchased November 2018). Yesterday I had one and decided to go to the Dell website for help. I had a remote session which lasted about an hour. Tech ran the Dell diagnostics, increased...

I'm having trouble identifying the cause of numerous BSODs and hoping someone can be of some help. The first few BSODs would happen during gaming sessions which resulted in > irql_not_less_or_equal > nvlddmkm.sys. I tried updating video card drivers, then completely removing and updating with...

Hi I posted about having issues doing a clean install on my old computer, that I'm going to pass on to my nephew. Neemobeer and nmsuk gave me some help getting around the issue with running the install do to a formatting conflict. Once I got past that the install went smoothly and Windows...

I installed Ubuntu 18.04 on my HDD and it asked me to format full drive. So, I backed up my data on my friend's drive and formatted mine and installed Ubuntu but then I came up to a point where I couldn't work on Ubuntu any more. So, I decided to reinstall Windows back. So, I booted in using my...

Date: Thursday, September 20, 2018Time: 02:00 PM Eastern Daylight TimeDuration: 1 hour Microsoft’s Windows Installer technology has assisted many organizations and IT Pros well over the years, providing a standard for application customization deploy Continue reading...

I'm almost certain it has something to do with my hardware but I can't make heads or tails of the information in the dump files. I've recently reinstalled Windows, clean install, because of the BSOD's to no avail My computer is approx. 3 years old & I recently upgraded my graphics card. If any...

Is it possible to insert drivers in .exe format into ISO with MSMG toolkit? Will they be actually installed during Windows installation? Does anyone have experience with that? I have never done this and there is someone who needs a customized Windows installation ISO. Unfortunately the...

Hi, Platform is AMD RX-421 CPU with 4GB DRAM. Our customer build Windows PE 32-bit image in USB drive, next boot AMD platform by this WinPE USB drive. However they get BSOD error when calling shutdown command. (WinPE command : wpeutil shutdown). If we test shutdown command in Windows PE 64-bit...

Old hard drive was incredibly slow, so I had an SSD installed to replace it. (I still have the hard drive and have ordered a shell and USB cable combo for it if that helps.) I didn't want to pay for any other work, so I need to know what I do now to get Windows 10 back. I did write down my...

Hi guys, Some of you may have seen my other posts before. Indeed it's another issue to add to the long series of problems I've got with my Toshiba Satellite P50-C. It was my first expensive laptop, the fastest I ever got (16go ram) but it's now not really usable. So in short, it was bought...

Hi, when trying to do this update I get the message "There is a problem with this Windows Installer Package. A program required for this install to complete could not be run". In the Windows Virtual help it suggests running 'repair' in Programs and Features on Apple App Support 64 bit, Apple...

My computer runs windows 7. Keeps staying on Windows getting ready. I have tried hard shut downs, disconnected the battery, all the function keys. The only thing that has an effect is F12 but when I select reboot it goes right back to windows getting ready. F2 just shows info that can't take...

I have an old laptop that I thought I'd try and speed up by using it as a Chromebook, however, I want to go back to Windows. I created a bootable USB Windows 10 drive and booted from that. I have run Win10 on this laptop before. When I try to install, there are now 27 partitions on the drive...

i just want to ask for does who know everything about creating custom image and install to multiple laptops with same unit same model same specs with embedded product key from the motherboard. my question is, is this illegal? please help