Error installing Win10: Windows cannot read the <ProductKey> setting from the unattend answer file
So I'm building a new PC. I have Windows 10 Home retail version on the readonly USB stick. At the beginning of the install process I'm getting the error message "Windows cannot read the <ProductKey> setting from the unattend answer file.…
How to solve problem Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server cannot be found
Overall summary: Final result: Failed: see details below Exit code (Decimal): -2068052310 Start time: 2021-05-06 08:17:41 End time: 2021-05-06 08:22:57 Requested…
10 Pro Asks For Company Login After Clean Install in OOBE
Hi, I bought a few used 10 Pro Dell desktops and laptops during a liquidation sale from a business to refurbish and resell, but after resetting or clean install if I connect to internet during initial setup (OOBE) it says Welcome to XYZ Company please…
How do I get the program past the "modify setup" box?
I have some documents from Veterans Affair that need downloaded, but when I use the link they provided for Azure info protection they program is stuck on a box with "modify setup" and I can't use the program to download the documents. Please…
Use Intune "Wipe" or Use Windows 10 "Reset this PC"
We are moving to using Autopilot for provisioning our Windows 10 desktops, so our traditional method of OS reimaging to repurpose a device or to address various OS and application corruption type issues will be gone. The modern way of addressing these…
Sysprep Fails on 20H2
Bit of help on Sysprep needed. I'm trying to capture a master image from Hyper-V (Windows 10 Pro 20H2) and I'm having issues to do with the windows store apps. I have run: Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage and …
Disable Virtualization-Based Security Without Disabling Hyper-V
I am currently trying to run Hyper-V without virtualization-based security enabled, and I have encountered some problems. My first attempt at doing this involved enabling the "Virtual Machine Platform" feature, and setting some of the…
Installing Office 365 on a different Hard drive from Windows. i.e. Not on Drive C: (to save space the approx 3GB space used)
This question was asked many years ago, in the old Forum, and some of the answers given appear to be out of date. However, towards the end of the thread what seems to me to be the best two answers are given. See Previous thread…
Windows 10 Upgrade Error (From Windows 7/8.1)
Hi, I have been trying to upgrade my Operating System from Windows 7/Windows 8.1 (2 Separate PC's) for over a week now. The upgrade has failed even after trying multiple times on both systems. Already tried the following : SFC/SCANNOW - ·Windows…
Changing permissions on multiple files at once (Windows 10)
Hey everyone! I need some assistance with figuring out how to change the permissions on multiple files at once. I recently had to reload my computer, and pulling files back onto my local disk from my SSD is sending me into an error loop of "access…
Can't enable recovery partition after conversion to GPT
Converted to gpt (UEFI), got an error "failed to update reagent.xml, please try to manually disable and enable winre". Can't enable it, first because it couldn't find files, then I extracted winre.wim out of an installation .iso and put it in…
WIndows 10 Pro to LTSC
I have a computer currently installed with Windows 10 Pro, I have a product key for LTSC. How can I turn Windows 10 Pro to Enterprise LTSC without data loss or reimaging? LTSC is approved by my IT department but Pro has too much bloatware to accept the…
Login into an aad-joined windows 10 computer with SAML 2.0 federated domain
Hello, I have an Azure Active Directory Tenant, on which the domain is federated through SAML 2.0. I would like to use this directory to manage windows 10 computers, but when I link the domain to the computer, i cannot login into the computer as it…
Windows 11 setup without internet
Is it possible to setup my new Windows 11 Dell Latitude, without internet?
How can I set up a new company computer without logging into personal Microsoft account.
I have tried a few different ways but still doesnt recoginize my work account when setting up new copilot plus pc.
I've set up 2 different Microsoft 365 accounts, personal and business and not sure what to keep. I cant get the business account to show my email, keeps adding onmicrosoft.com. Can anyone help please?
I've set up 2 different Microsoft 365 accounts, personal and business and not sure what to keep. The bus one isn't that much more and I do have a business, inactive at the moment. There a lot of features I dont need like the web service, domains, all…
Blue screen erroo ( video scheduler internal error )
I have this problem for 6 months and i know the app who make the problem but i dont know how to fix it and i dont wnna delete the app , the app is apple music and i download it from microsoft store , please help me and tell me what to do to fix the…
Problems with changing System Language of my Laptop (Windows 10)
Hi! I'm just concerned about changing the system language of my laptop since I changed everything in the Settings > Language sections part of the system and changed everything that I see to English. But there are still some icons and my system still…
Windows 10 Cumulative Updates are way too slow to download and install
Hi Microsoft, I can no longer tolerate with the Cumulative Updates because it takes so long to download the security updates. And I do not know what is the problems. I don't think it is my ISP is causing the problems. It could be the downloading…
How to join Windows 10/11 Pro computer to Azure AD with passwordless authentication?
We implemented passwordless authentication in our Azure AD environment and use Windows 10 and 11 Pro in our computers. When joining a computer to Azure Active Directory for the first time, the only option presented to a user is to provide their Azure AD…