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[alQamar]

Hi recently a friend of mine bought a used Win7 laptop including all data from previous owner and the Win7 password. No words about this.

The laptop was in a desolate state took about 4 minutes to start up – having 3 antivirus programs install etc.

After a short look we decided to not take the free Win10 upgrade which is still possible via an older Windows Upgrade assistant.

Rather we dumped HDD and replaced it with a fresh SSD.

We booted from a May 2019 1903 USB key created with Rufus from the official ISO – downloaded by the lastest Media Creator Tool and entered the Win7 OEM key from the back of the Laptop

 

Windows 10 activated as fine as with the in-place upgrade – we logged into a MS account to save this key into the account automatically.

So anyone who still is on Win7 consider an upgrade first.
or start fresh using your Win7 key during a USB key Win 10 as described.

Have fun. Together with this SSD this old laptop boots up in 4 seconds, took 1-2 hours to get it to the shape we needed (apps / settings).

Make yourself happy with Win10 – it is not anymore as worse at it was in the earlier years, especially with 1903.

And be excited about so many settings for people with restrictions and apps that keep you productive like MS To-Do. There is a bunch to explore.

the MS team is doing long lists of what has changed for each release – this is since 1809 – they aren’t even complete.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-insider/at-home/whats-new-wip-at-home

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-insider/at-home/whats-new-apps-19h1

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-IT-Pro-Blog/What-s-new-for-IT-pros-in-Windows-10-version-1903/ba-p/622024

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Asus has awesome Mainboards but their security support is low on other fronts too.

Older and newer models haven’t seen microcode updates after May 2018. Thankfully Microsoft will do their job on Windows 10.

Most of the time when I saw people using this tool it said there is no update available, though they could have alerted to upgrade to AI suite 3 or other updates even bios updates or Intel ME Firmware aren’t listed, when checking against the website content.

Not speaking about notebooks only, but retail mainboards.

 

Lastly “ASUS has also implemented a fix in the latest version (ver. 3.6.8) of the Live Update software”

Do not expect that the live update tool will update itself rather users have to download the new tool theirselves.

 

Tldr: this tool is same as Acer updater absolutely useless. My recommendation: uninstall

Scope I can refer too is very large from 2nd gen to 8th gen Intel mainboards.

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One question: are there features to netdom.dom where there are no equivalents in powershell or will the PS commandlets like add-computer fail too after the patch?

 

I would encourage anyone to use Active Directory Administrative Center over ADUC (Active Directory users and computers).

 

It will take a time but can do much more and vastly quicker. Esp. Searching, adding, password resets etc

Elly wrote:

@b- I don’t think we are looking at the same page. The link that Woody gives above has this reference to Update Assistant: Both the support page and that link take me to: Which does not mention Windows Update Assistant anywhere. If your point is that if I click to down load the media creation tool, I’ll find the reference that you quote, you are simply making my point for me. Why would I click to download a media creation tool when I’m looking for Windows Update Assistant to begin with? PS- You should be happy at the thoroughness that Microsoft is showing in addressing problems that may occur when updating, though…

I agree with the confusion it is really hard to get to the website to retrieve the upgrade assistant.

 

When one Google for Windows 10 Upgrade, at least in Germany

Mostly you’re landing on the site that holds some not so clear links and they get you to the page of media creation tool and not Windows upgrade assistant.

 

Bear in mind that installing the upgrade via an iso (media creation tool) is faster than using search for updates or windows upgrade assistant

The reason is internal code that the iso always install on normal priority while other methods are designed to run with internally low prio so users don’t get disturbed during an upgrade and can continue to use the device.

Good news the issue is fixed

tested on
Windows 7 SP1 CU 2019-03
Windows 8.0 CU 2019-03
Windows 8.1 Update 1 CU 2019-03

Defender Definitions: 1.289.1587.0
Thanks @maryjofoley and the @WD

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Mele20 wrote:

I have this problem on my Window 8.0 Pro machine (not a virtual machine).

any reasons to stay on 8.0 instead taking the free update to 8.1 or 10 1809?

anonymous wrote:

I have Windows 8.1. Windows Defender is stopping. This isn’t a VM, but rather a home machine. At first I thought I had something that was breaking it. But Malwarebytes still worked fine. I even did a refresh of Windows just to be sure. Windows Defender still stops. It says the “process has stopped working.” But glad to see I’m not the only one having this issue. UPDATE: Windows Defender will start scanning like normal but then it says the process stopped working and I have to turn Windows Defender back on again.

Yes that’s what I noticed, too. Refer screenshots.

My VMs don’t run malwarebytes (MBAM)  The host has MBAM Premium 3.7.1 but I doubt it could affect the VM. This would irritate me deeply. Currently I cannot see any additional relation

Hi everyone,
so all my findings in a summary.

Definition version for all OS: 1.289.15121.0

Errorcode: 0x800106ba

Affected OS:
Windows 7
Windows 8.0
Windows 8.1

All share same error code but will fail at different spots / time during scan.
It does not matter whether they have 02-2019 or 03-2019 CUs so likely it is just the definitions.

Unaffected OS:
Win10 19H1
Server 2016 1607 LTSC
Server 2019 1809 LTSC
Windows 10 Skip Ahead
(likely not tested) other supported versions of Windows 10.

Screenshots in subsequent tweets
https://twitter.com/PhantomofMobile/status/1107844193068580864

Mild disclaimer: Another time to choose the free upgrade to Windows 10 1809, when they loose to testdrive their stuff internally?
Isn’t the first accident where older products are the only affected (Win7 / Office 2010).
Support end is near anyway.
Asking why I run these old OS? Exactly this – testing purposes, no prod.

Thanks to Crysta ( @photm ) raising this issue.
What you can do to solve this issue: avoid manual tinkering (rollback is possible), wait for the next Definition files. I’ve got a callback at 1:45 pm from MS Support. perhaps it won’t take long to get there.

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in the insider rings you are right there are no deferals else these presented for Home.
Applies to 19H1 slow / fast and 20H1.
I cannot get the adv. options to display. This might be limited to Insider. I have not yet seen a copy for non insider ISO BUT the new build b18356.1 has no watermark – so probably a semi-final – wohoo!

this behaviour is by design™

mn– wrote:

b wrote:

… because of two obscure issues affecting a tiny percentage of users which were already known in previous updates?

Actually… how common is the MSXML6 dependency anyway?

MSXML4 and 6 should be uninstalled or at least patched manually (while removing the older SPs). On W10 they are no longer needed.

just as many other C++ updates available via MS download pages also this package is still outdated

KB2538243 – Security Update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Service Pack 1 Package

use All in One Runtime from computerbase.de to fix your security holes with C++. MS does not care. 

The only way to get the secure versions is this great tool (skip other installations) or dl them via Visualstudio portal.

more information:
https://borncity.com/win/2017/12/19/the-problem-with-c-redists-3rd-party-security-patches-i/

 

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EP wrote:

hi woody. The KB4489899 cumulative update for Windows 10 version 1809 has two known issues listed: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4489899/windows-10-update-kb4489899 Those using Win10 v1809 should definitely wait for the next update in late March rather than install KB4489899

the solution is to follow MS advice and uninstall IE. There are more capable, speedy and less troublesome browsers. IE was s*** and keeps being it.

Fooder for the pessimists:

When we take this for granted this also says “Windows 10 running on 800 million devices”

it means it is up and running – so no startup issues
users have not blocked their devices telemetry completely
devices are not firewalled perhaps

Microsoft knows this but I rather would like to know if the figures include business devices at all, and also what OS build they are running and which SKU.

this would be very interesting.

Just recently Michael Niehaus asked on Twitter, whether companies buy devices without SSDs and if so why.

I comment that they better don’t, as Windows 10 is not made for HDDs! The performance is sluggish due to the design of tiworker, wsappx and others running at the same time killing the few IOPS of a HDD, causing fragmentation galore – I’ve seen W10 clients with 18% fragmentation – you notice a degradation at 3%.

However – just yesterday I resurrected a users laptop Intel Dual Core from 2009 –

cleaned coolers and replaced thermal grease – equipped with a new SSD and upgraded the existing buggy Win7 to Win10 1809 in a free upgrade – runs like a champ. User is so happy about all the new features including MS ToDo, contact sync etc pp.