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WIll this work you... Open 7Zip File Manager and browse to the parent folder so that you can see the rascal folder in the pane. Select the folder you want to delete, then Shift+Delete.

Flamin' Koalas! You're absolutely right Arthur, they've got to be issued with separate DISM commands. I'm just adding IE 11 aswell and then I'll install into a VM to see if there are any missing updates. Thanks again buddy. By the way, with this update, what other updates do you inject... Using your info above, I wondered if this would be a complete enough list.. First KB3020369 ------------- Next KB3125574 ------------- Then KB2670838 (needed to allow IE11) IE11-KB2841134 IE11-KB3154070 ------------- Finally KB2728738 KB2732673 KB2878378 EDIT: Added KB2670838 to allow IE11 integration

@Arthur Could you point me in the right direction to integrate this rollup. Here's what I've just tried, and the error I received. Two updates inside the folder d:\updates Windows6.1-KB3020369-x64.cab Windows6.1-KB3125574-v4-x64.cab Mount the .wim (from untouched 7x64 Pro SP1 iso) DISM /Mount-Wim /Wimfile:"install.wim" /index:1 /MountDir:"d:\offline" [i]Once mounted, I then issue the command...[/i] DISM /image:"d:\offline" /add-package /packagepath:d:\updates\ Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool Version: 10.0.10586.0 Image Version: 6.1.7600.16385 Processing 1 of 2 - Adding package Package_for_KB3020369~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.1 [==========================100.0%==========================] Processing 2 of 2 - Adding package Package_for_KB3125574~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.4.4 [=================== 33.3% ] Error: 14005 Package Package_for_KB3125574 may have failed due pending updates to servicing components in the image. Try the command again.The command completed with errors. For more information, refer to the log file. What am I doing wrong?

Well spotted, thanks for that. I'm using the old fashioned DISM, and unpacking the .msu to integrate the .cab; would you recommend a change in method, as I'd much rather do the work in my host OS - same as you. By the way, how do you discover the extra build version of Windows 10. Mine says Build 10586 but I don't see .318 Interested in your PowerShell method. Many thanks Arthur

Interesting. I was using a 64bit Pro iso. What OS were you running the integration from? I have attempted other 7 Pro .wim integrations on my 10x64 Pro Host but it kept failing, so I installed the base 7 iso in a VirtualBox instance and integrated from that - this worked fine for my previous few days work, so I tried the same with this update package and Boom! Computer says No. Hope you have a better day tomorrow mate.

LOL, I've just spent the best part of a few days solid work perfecting a from scratch integration...install At least this has the potential to speed that process up from now on Thanks Arthur, or should we call you .... Doc Brown? EDIT: Not so fast Mr Microsoft.... Just tried integrating your 'rollup' into an untouched SP1 iso and it fails after 33% ?? I'm not giving up on my hours of work without a fight, you pesky rollup!!

Are you installing an 'equivalent' upgrade version? (ie. 8.1 Pro with 10 Pro, not 8.1 Core with 10 Pro...) If the editions differ and you're not supply an eligible product key then that is probably the reason. Do you know the product key of Windows 8.1, if you do you could try to reset the product key using Open an Elevated Command Prompt and type this cscript //nologo slmgr.vbs /ipk for example, cscript //nologo slmgr.vbs /ipk ABCD1-ABCD1-ABCD1-ABCD1-ABCD1 It might help for you to publish in your reply to this thread the current activation details using cscript //nologo slmgr.vbs /dli If you'd like to test the activation again, type cscript //nologo slmgr.vbs /ato

I've seen this on two home PCs, so I think Microsoft broke something around March time. The only difference I've noticed is that both those home PCs were in-place upgrades from 7. EDIT: You could try uninstalling KB3140743 (as @Arthur pointed out, there are changes to the start menu)

You could attempt to rollback/system restore..

I've seen this behaviour before and spent hours trying all kinds of fixes, but ultimately had to re-install Windows 10 !!

I learn so much from this forum

That folder on my PC has a subfolder labelled with my USER SID, inside of which has seven versions of my user logo. Again, I have a subkey underneath the Users key with my USER SID, and the multiple data entries inside that key points to the files from the above folder. I'll see if I can snaffle from a fresh 10 install what those values are by default.... EDIT: Both registry and explorer locations are empty on a fresh install.

Check out these locations, I saw that it references them when I changed my logo. (Explorer) C:\Users\Public\AccountPictures (Registry) HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AccountPicture

If it helps, I also have an empty file 'defaultuser0.dat', along with another empty file matching my login name 'joebloggs.dat' (Windows 10 Pro x 64)

I've used an energy monitor plug to help diagnose under/over voltage. All I wanted it to tell me is the mains voltage supply when the computers started misbehaving... This is the one I used, but I paid something like £ 5 for it from a local supplier. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Plug-In-Power-and-Energy-Monitor/dp/B000Q7PJGW The good thing about a UPS, is the software can keep track of what happened and cleanup the supply if needed. I bought this UPS, which helped when we had to approach UK Power Networks, who in turn did more diagnosis and confirmed the supply was outside the statutory limits for 230 Volts +10% and -6% (253 – 216 Volts). We were sometimes getting 202 volts!!! https://www.amazon.co.uk/CyberPower-VALUE-600EILCD-Uninteruptible-Supply/dp/B00BUJCF30 All the best

Do you mean copying the contents from your ProgramFiles folder, to the repository, then copying those (changed) files to each client? I do like the idea, but I'd agree that it seems a bit too risky, and potentially a lot of work to address the following... Are there any registry entries you'd need to copy? What would you do if the app was open on the client pc, would you reschedule an update? How about if for whatever reason the client was shutdown/sleeped ;-) when the copying was taking place, would that break your install? Do you have a system to be able to tell who has/hasn't got the latest version? If I think of anything else I'll post.

Hi @Hybrid That's as simple as I could make it ;-) This script is really a run once in your case then, and the extra step to refresh the wallpaper is not needed either. So, it then becomes reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background /v OEMBackground /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f bginfo.exe c:\hostname.bgi /timer:00 /silent /nolicprompt BMP2JPG.exe %windir%\bginfo.bmp %windir%\backgroundDefault.jpg overwrite copy /v /y %windir%\backgroundDefault.jpg %windir%\system32\oobe\info\backgrounds\ Run once and you're done.

Thanks _techie_, yours sounds a bit more tried and tested. Here's what I came up with. You'll need this bmp to jpg command line conversion app. Convert BMP to JPG Command Line Tool (Free) | microtom.net I saved it to the windows folder First, I enabled the OEM/OOBE change to allow a custom logon wallpaper reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background /v OEMBackground /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f I then created a simple script to launch bginfo with a .bgi file that purely displays the hostname, convert the BMP to JPG, and copy that to the correct folder. bginfo.exe c:\hostname.bgi /timer:00 /silent /nolicprompt BMP2JPG.exe %windir%\bginfo.bmp %windir%\backgroundDefault.jpg overwrite copy /v /y %windir%\backgroundDefault.jpg %windir%\system32\oobe\info\backgrounds\ That works as a one off if you want, as the hostname will hopefully not be changing that often. The script can, however, be launch via GPO or set as Task at System Startup. There is a further step needed to force a refresh of the wallpaper at the logon/lock screen, which is really to force close the logonui.exe, which in turn restarts itself and refreshes the wallpaper.

@Hybrid One problem I've read about with BGInfo is that it creates .bmp files, which to my knowledge cannot be used as a Logon screen wallpaper - Windows requires the Logon wallpaper to be .jpg I'm just working on a solution now... Some questions: 1. What exactly do you want displaying on the Logon/Lock screen? 2. Do you want the same to then be displayed once the user has logged in? 3. Do you have a specific background image that you want the text to be 'superimposed' on?

In a nutshell My unit has 4x500GB disks (7200rpm Sata II) 8GB RAM, Xeon® CPU E5506 @ 2.13GHz - Ripped out the RAID card (ZFS manages its own RAID config!) - Cleaned the inside of the case, including fans, reapplied fresh thermal compound... - Installed a new bios battery - Plugged the SATA disks directly into the m/board - Installed NAS4Free image on a USB drive (which needs to remain plugged in - you can install it to an internal disk, but that disk shouldn't be used for the Filesystem) - Created a single pool as ZFS RAID-Z (similar to RAID 5, so allows one disk to fail, but in hindsight I should have used RAID-Z2 similar to RAID 6, which allows two disks to fail) - Created the users and shared folders, setup the permissions... - Enabled automated snapshots of the pool every night at 8pm (This is a brilliant feature - imagine 'previous versions' for every file, or a Time Machine for files) - Setup a backup routine to sync contents to a remote building, on site. And off we go... These shared folders are used every single day and they've been such a fresh of breath air moving away from the RM setup which was just crippling; for me anyway. With the two network cards NAS4Free supports bonding/teaming the connection to achieve a higher throughput. You can schedule disk scrubbing and SMART tests, which is great because already I can see that one, possibly two of these disks are starting to show signs of failing, but this thing just keeps going... Thoroughly recommend it. Incidentally, I chose NAS4Free because it had a lower spec requirement than FreeNAS. FreeNAS looks more polished and probably has higher-end features, but NAS4Free does the job. All the best

+1 for FreeNAS, or NAS4Free... That's exactly what I've turned mine into. The ZFS filesystem supports snapshots, which have been a brilliant way for the staff to retrieve something that was deleted days ago (like 30+ end of year reports!) The RM server I have is close to 7 years old, but has 8GB RAM.

Here's a workable solution. Download this portable PDF reader - Download Sumatra PDF - a free reader I'm going to assume you've extracted it to D:\SumatraPDF This would be the command to print the first three pages of a pdf document, to the default printer. D:\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe -print-to-default -print-settings "1-3" "exampleDoc.pdf" Put all your PDFs into a folder, for example D:\PDFsToPrint\ Then use this script to print the first three pages of every PDF within D:\PDFsToPrint for /f %%G in ('dir /a:-d /b D:\PDFsToPrint\*.pdf') do ( D:\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe -print-to-default -print-settings "1-3" "%%G" )

Ah, thought so. Who uses this machine and what kind of access does it have to your network? Shared drives... You might just want to keep this machine under close monitoring, or better still, remove it from the network and see how serious it is. If you have even an little bit of doubt that the machine is clean, I would re-image the thing. Interesting that ESET didn't do a slightly better job at stopping the infection at source.

To me, that kind of behaviour looks incredibly suspicious - malware like. Either that or something legit is attempting to be installed. What kind of changes have you made recently? GPO, local machine... What is the history of this user, have they noticed anything out of the ordinary, before this message?

No worries buddy, I misread stuff all the time.