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Use MUI'd install media for upgrade

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Is there a way to use an MUI'd Windows 10 install for an upgrade install of different languages?

When I start the install from the root of the Multi-language media on a windows in a different language than the original I get a message that the upgrade isn't possible because the language is different.

On Windows 7 this is not a problem. When I start setup.exe from the root of the media I get a chance to select the language and everything runs fine.

On Windows 10 I have to start setup from the "sources" folder for the language selection screen to appear, but then when I select "Upgrade" setup tells me to start from the root of the media.


Outlook won't search after Windows update 10.0.14393

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After a windows 10 update 10.0.14393 Outlook 2010 won't search anymore.  one computer is stuck saying indexing incomplete.  Another showed completing indexing but still doesn't search properly consistently.  There are a dozen computers in this organization that just did the updates automatically and searches stopped; so this is not just one computer.  Ofcourse it's urgent too.  As a temporarily solution we are doing a system restore, but ultimately the update will install again.  There seems to be a bug with this update and we need a solution.

Searches for emails we know exist sometimes highlight but show other irrelevant emails.  Some don't show anything and one search seemed to work as expected. Is there another solution besides system restore?  Do we have to wait for Microsoft to address this issue?

looking for registry tweak to change linear into logarithmic for windows mixer

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hi there i'm looking for registry tweak to change linear volume mixer and any setings to linear into logarithmic as a tweak. is there any?

Restoring Manage Wireless Networks GUI on Windows 8+

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Remember the good old Manage Wireless Networks GUI from Windows 7, allowing users full control over wireless connections? Reordering connections and ability to access properties of ANY wireless connection, not just the one to which computer is currenty connected to, is impossible on Windows 8+ via GUI.

After a little digging, I discovered these systems still reference the file where Manage Wireless Networks GUI is implemented. However, wlanpref.dll, where functionality is supposed to be, is crippled, invoking the GUI doesn't do anything. By replacing the file with the one from Windows 7, the GUI can be brought back.

For this quick guide, I'm going to assume the reader has access to Windows 7 installation, which bitness and installed GUI language(s) (language packs) matches the system he/she is going to patch and knows how to replace system files by taking ownership and giving self write access to the file.

At minimum, the following files need to be taken from Windows 7 install:

C:\Windows\System32\wlanpref.dll
C:\Windows\System32\en-US\wlanpref.dll.mui

IMPORTANT: The path of the second file depends on the primary GUI language of your operating system, so en-US may need to be replaced with some other language. If any language pack is installed, wlanpref.dll.mui files for these languages are also required for everything to work properly.

Once all files are acquired, they can be copied to the target system. To be able to replace them, one must take ownership of each file and give their user group (Users) write permission. I took care of this manually in file properties dialog on Security tab and restored original permissions and ownership afterwards. Some of you probably added option to shell context menu to take ownership and give yourself permissions with one click.

This doesn't restore hyperlink to the GUI in Control Panel->Network and Sharing Center, but the GUI can be invoked running the following command:

explorer.exe shell:::{1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87}

For convenience, make a shortcut somewhere accessible, specifying above command as the target.

Here's the final result:

On Windows 8.1, wlanpref.dll hasn't been touched since 2014, on Windows 10, it's probably replaced with every new build, so perhaps writing a script that backups and replaces the files on will might be a good idea. I'm surprised just throwing in Windows 7's DLL worked so flawlessly in this case. Windows 7 also has hyperlink to export wireless profile in connection properties dialog, this is under control of some other component I suppose. The only thing I wasn't able to test is creating ad hoc network since my WiFi adapter doesn't support that functionality.

VS 2015 VsHub - Another Chip Off the Win 10 Cloud?

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Just a few days ago I installed the new Update 2 of Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition.   It works well enough, but it brings back to mind an issue that saw with the earlier releases and worked around...

It wants to start VsHub components that don't appear to be needed, and which look like they're trying to share data with the world.

Several processes from folder "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VsHub\1.0.0.0" are started, and remain running persistently when Visual Studio is run and after it exits: 

  • VsHub.exe
  • Microsoft.VsHub.Server.HttpHost.exe
  • Microsoft.VxHub.Server.HttpHostx64.exe

Server?!?  I do NOT wish to have ANY program "share my data" without my knowledge, yet I cannot find a setting that stops VsHub from starting.  I've unchecked all the boxes I can find that might govern this activity, and yet these programs still start and run, and attempt to communicate online.

Things that auto-start and run in the background and serve your data to others online?  Shades of Windows 10 anyone?  Thing is, I'm not running it on Windows 10.

As of VS 2015 CE Update 1, I found that the VsHub processes could be blocked by removing Execute permissions.  I got a lot of positive feedback on the StackOverflow site for suggesting this.  Clearly I'm not alone in wanting my system to NOT become a "server of all Noel's data".  I'll probably investigate whether the same tweaks will work with Update 2, but...

Do you think "cloud integrated" software that provides no way to control its online participation is welcome?  Even when it's free?

-Noel

 

Edit:  Some hard info, just to prove I'm not being "tin foil hat paranoid"...

I closed down all VsHub processes, then traced the DNS names being accessed by Visual Studio on an otherwise idle system...

These were accessed during VS 2015 startup

  • [19-Apr-16 10:09:49] go.microsoft.com
  • [19-Apr-16 10:09:49] download.microsoft.com
  • [19-Apr-16 10:09:51] az667904.vo.msecnd.net
  • [19-Apr-16 10:09:51] az700632.vo.msecnd.net
  • [19-Apr-16 10:09:56] vortex.data.microsoft.com
  • [19-Apr-16 10:09:59] ocsp2.globalsign.com

These were accessed after I opened a solution

  • [19-Apr-16 10:10:11] go.microsoft.com
  • [19-Apr-16 10:10:23] crl.usertrust.com

This was accessed after I exited VS 2015

  • [19-Apr-16 10:10:49] sqm.telemetry.microsoft.com

 

By my reckoning that's an update site, several Azure servers, and several Microsoft telemetry sites all being contacted either without or actively against my permission.  I have opted out of ALL CEIP settings everywhere I can find them, and I always disable ALL "auto update" functions.

KB4025338 is not compatible with Home edition 1507

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KB4025376 is compatible with Home edition, but an error message appeared when I tried to install KB4025338.

It seems that KB4032695 is the last cumulative security update compatible with Home edition 1507.

Aero glass 8 defect

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Running Aero Glass 8 with the latest building of Windows 10 will return to normal UI after a while. Is there any solution?

sphinx windows 10 firewall

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I do not know how to configure it. I let the program run, but some applications can not connect using the predefined setting. I would like to enable "enable all" but it seems to me excessive. There is a site that helps you configure the program?


Why does SystemSettings.exe automatically start 5 minutes after logon?

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If I boot my Win 10 test VM, and leave it completely alone for 5 minutes, SystemSettings.exe and ApplicationFrameHost.exe are automatically started.  SystemSettings.exe goes immediately to Suspended state.

With BigMuscle's ModernFrame-x64-Debug.dll in place it's obvious when it happens because a debug console window opens for ApplicationFrameHost.exe.

Since mine is a system on which I don't normally expect to run an App of any kind, I sure as hell don't want a copy of SystemSettings.exe sitting in the background.

I will be sweeping through the Task Scheduler looking for what it is that's starting SystemSettings.exe after 5 minutes of idle time, but if you have any ideas - or if you also see this happen on your Win 10 system - please let me know.  What I don't know is whether most folks have enough Apps that this stuff always starts right up after login normally.

I've already removed a scheduled run of provtool at 5 minutes after bootup, but that didn't stop the run of SystemSettings.exe.

-Noel

Restoring Display settings in Control Panel

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Looks like those settings aren't completely gone yet (at least in current stable build 15063.483), they deleted references to them from registry. Importing DisplayCPL.reg brings them back. TrustedInstaller privileges required. They did replace the scaling slider with the link to the Settings app. TrueType tuner is there, font sizes can be changed, color calibrator works at first glance, also the link "Adjust brightness" that points to the power panel appears on supported devices eg. laptops.

Edit: Also noticed that reference to Personalization settings is present in registry, so I guess it doesn't appear in Control Panel because something about that specific panel is broken, though it can be invoked using Run dialog:

shell:::{ED834ED6-4B5A-4BFE-8F11-A626DCB6A921}

Should be invokable with this one as well, but it doesn't budge...

control.exe /name Microsoft.Personalization

 

Interference from Windows Defender

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Frequently, I'm getting notification after startup that both Windows Defender and Emsisoft Anti-Malware show that they are turned off and my computer is at risk. It happened again this morning and in trying to check things out my computer froze up and I couldn't do anything. So I left it and came back to it and everything was fine at that point. Emsisoft was running and everything back to normal. But somehow this Windows Defender is causing problems. I can't be the only one with this problem so thought I'd check and see if there is a solution.

Turn off Windows 10 phoning home to Microsoft services

Remove Edge link Internet Explorer

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Hi guys!

Still messing around with testing Windows 10!

I still use Internet Explorer 11 for some things...but now there there is a link to Edge all the time?!

Microsoft just don't get it....don't want Edge and don't reminding of it with a link....

How to remove this?

bookie32

Simple hack enables classic theme in Windows 10 (and 8, too!)

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It turns out that the Windows 98 style classic theme still has not been removed after all! I figured out that it's possible to enable it by closing the handle to the ThemeSection object in the winlogon.exe process. By doing this, theming is disabled, and any new applications will fall back to the Windows Classic theme. Sysinternals has released a command-line utility that can view and manage handles (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896655.aspx), so I've decided to create a batch script that uses this utility to enable the classic theme in one click. Place ClassicTheme.bat (frickin' msfn won't allow me to upload batch files, so I had to change the extension to .txt  :angrym: ) in the same directory as Handle.exe and run the script as administrator. Pardon my terrible batch coding skills. :blushing:  All newly-opened applications will use the classic theme. Not all applications work well with the classic theme. Internet Explorer has heavy graphical issues, Task Manager closes immediately, and restarting explorer.exe causes the taskbar and start menu to no longer work.

 

Screenshot:

post-391308-0-87344400-1422246452_thumb.

ClassicTheme.txt

MS Edge is not returning back even after OS reset

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I used CMD script to uninstall edge but i am not returning it back after resetting windows 10.

can you help someone?

Hi friends

I will explain what happend to me.

i downloaded one zip file uninstall_edge.zip, then there is one cmd file  i ran it as administrator after that i din't get my edge back even after windows reset.

i have attached that cmd file with this.

if any one get solution plz help me. 

thank you for your reply

Uninstall Edge.cmd

install_wim_tweak.exe


win10 ntoskrnl dependencies

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Out of curiosity I was looking at windows 10 ntoskrnl with dependency walker and noticed all these ext-ms-win dll files it depends on.

I noticed however that the files do not seem to exist in c:\windows\system32 (or sysWOW64)

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So where are these dependencies actually located?

Windows 10 1507 (10.0.10240)

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Hello everyone,

Right now, I am using Windows 10 1507 on my PC. The enterprise version of this OS is part of the LTSB branch. Will this mean that build 10240 will get updates for a long time (10 years or something like that), or does it mean that I have to upgrade to 14393 (1607) LTSB to get updates?

If 10240 is indeed getting updates for years, maybe we are able to download them from the Update Catalog, and also install them on Home & Pro versions. If this is working, we don't have to upgrade to the latest build of Windows 10 all the time.

Thanks.

How to remove /delete broken partition wizzard task from every boot (its before login screen)?

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Hello,
i have tried resize partition with old version of Partition Wizzard probably not fully compatible version of Window 10 and problem is that task is started every boot and at every boot i got message
that is not working and press a key..

  I checked Task scheduler is not probably here, how to remove such task?

Its is starting these:
CPU type: AMD64
Module: 0x2f950000 Size:3575808 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\pwNative.exe 
Module: 0x4a700000 Size:1904640 C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll 
Exception Address:0x4a739f58
Exception Code:0xc0000005


In C:\ is file pwdebug.txt - its form that soft.

I uninstalled that soft installed now version, but is still somewhere scheduled, i wan to now where? I need tried to remove such type of task is something special..

I cant start Task manager - its windows couldnt be closed.

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When im tring to start Task manager im getting MMC has detected an error window, after that im getting this:
FX:{c7b8fb06-bfe1-4c2e-9217-7a69a95bbac4}

Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

Exception type:
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException

Exception stack:
   at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Executive.MmcThreadMessageWindow.OnThreadException(Exception e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
   at System.Windows.Forms.SafeNativeMethods.MessageBox(HandleRef hWnd, String text, String caption, Int32 type)
   at System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.ShowCore(IWin32Window owner, String text, String caption, MessageBoxButtons buttons, MessageBoxIcon icon, MessageBoxDefaultButton defaultButton, MessageBoxOptions options, Boolean showHelp)
   at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Advanced.MessageBoxParameters.ShowDialog(IWin32Window parent)
   at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Internal.ConsoleDialogHost.ShowDialog(WaitCursor waitCursor, ShowDialogCallback callback)
   at Microsoft.Windows.ManagementUI.CombinedControls.MMCConsole.ShowDialog(MessageBoxParams messageParams)
   at Microsoft.Windows.ManagementUI.CombinedControls.DisplayError.UserError(String errorString)
   at Microsoft.Windows.ManagementUI.CombinedControls.UITaskBase.ShowServiceIsDownMessage(Exception e, Boolean restartService)
   at Microsoft.Windows.ManagementUI.CombinedControls.UITaskFolder.GetUITaskList(Object sender, DoWorkEventArgs eWorker, Boolean loadTaskDefinitions, Boolean includeHiddenTasks)
   at Microsoft.Windows.ManagementUI.CombinedControls.TaskDetailControl.EnumerateTasksAndAddToList()
   at Microsoft.Windows.ManagementUI.CombinedControls.TaskDetailControl.RefreshData(Boolean firstRefresh)
   at Microsoft.Windows.ManagementUI.CombinedControls.TaskDetailControl.InitializeTaskDetailControl()
   at Microsoft.TaskScheduler.SnapIn.TaskSchedFolderFormViewControl.Microsoft.ManagementConsole.IFormViewControl.Initialize(FormView snapinFormView)
   at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.FormView.InternalInitialize()
   at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.View.HandleInitializationRequest(IRequestStatus requestStatus)
   at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.View.ProcessRequest(Request request)
   at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.ViewMessageClient.ProcessRequest(Request request)
   at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Internal.IMessageClient.ProcessRequest(Request request)
   at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Executive.RequestStatus.BeginRequest(IMessageClient messageClient, RequestInfo requestInfo)
   at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Executive.SnapInRequestOperation.ProcessRequest()
   at Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Executive.Operation.OnThreadTransfer(SimpleOperationCallback callback)

I have tried delete all Spybot task but its still here.

Window even could be closed.

This computer, manager, task manager is working, afer some Spybot task error.

TaskMgrError.png

TaskMgrWindowWorking.png

Backup program misbehaving

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Whenever I try to run the Backup program on Windows 10, it always ends with an error about some files not being backed up. Getting details about the error shows the Backup program complaining about some of the mapped drives not being on the local machine. There are three mapped drives that point to directories on a NAS machine, but I specifically checked the Backup options to only backup the C drive. Is part of the problem that the Windows 10 Backup and the compatible Windows 7 Backup not one in the same program even though the “advanced” settings for 10 lead to the 7 control panel?

 

I am pretty sure a workaround would be to un-map the NAS directories, let the program run to completion, and then re-map the NAS. Does anyone know the correct way to get the Backup program to work as expected?

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