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Atlas Playbook is a zipfile:
AtlasPlaybook_v0.3.2.zip – ZIP archive, unpacked size 9,477,089 bytesIt contains:
2023-11-08 16:15 9,473,693 AtlasPlaybook_v0.3.2.apbx
2023-11-07 14:22 2,399 Bypass Windows 11 Requirements.cmd
2023-11-07 13:49 997 Disable Automatic Driver Installation.regThe *.apbx is just a zipfile:
AtlasPlaybook_v0.3.2.apbx – ZIP archive, unpacked size 10,236,131 bytesIt contains 430 files in 116 folders all of which are encrypted.
The files have extensions .yml .reg .ico .ps1 .cmd .exe .png .lnk .conf .url
The unencrypted versions are available from https://github.com/Atlas-OS/Atlas/tree/main/src/playbook
See https://github.com/Atlas-OS/Atlas and https://discord.atlasos.net for more details.From what I see it is just a large automatic configuration implemented by the AME Wizard tool.
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Intel®Core™2 “Wolfdale” E8400 3.0 GHz / 8.00 GB
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My choice is manual toothbrush + Oral-B Glide Floss + GUM® Proxabrush® + water flosser in that order after each meal.
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Intel®Core™2 “Wolfdale” E8400 3.0 GHz / 8.00 GB
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The lighter a bicycle is the heavier the chain must be to secure it. So it is a loosing proposition. Even a 440C stainless steel chain would be ineffective because the thief would simply cut through what the chain was anchored to. Better to get a dirty, rusty old bike that nobody would care to steal and would be cheap to replace. There is security in obscurity, don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
However the most important concern with information theft is knowing if something has actually been stolen. What if someone has broken in and cut small circular holes in the bottom of all your company’s laptops in just the right places? You don’t know what data has been stolen do you? Yeah the possibilities are endless…
HP Compaq 6000 Pro SFF PC / Windows 10 Pro / 22H2
Intel®Core™2 “Wolfdale” E8400 3.0 GHz / 8.00 GB
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Very important:
When ReAgentC is run an entry is appended to C:\Windows\Logs\ReAgent\ReAgent.log
That log will help you understand what is going on. It is very verbose.Portions of C:\Windows\Logs\ReAgent\ReAgent.log following a ReAgentC /enable:
2024-02-06 16:14:50, Info [ReAgentc.exe] –Partition info– 2024-02-06 16:14:50, Info [ReAgentc.exe] VolumeName: \\?\Volume{b26f97dc-0000-0000-0000-10d1ff010000}, PartitionName: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition3 2024-02-06 16:14:50, Info [ReAgentc.exe] Partition number: 3, offset: 2198235774976, free space: 769089536, total space: 786427904 2024-02-06 16:14:50, Info [ReAgentc.exe] DiskNumber:0, DiskSignature:-1301309476, NTFS:1, Mbr:1, Active:0, Boot:0, BitlockerEnabled:0 2024-02-06 16:14:50, Info [ReAgentc.exe] MBR partition id: 0x27 2024-02-06 16:14:50, Info [ReAgentc.exe] DiskId: {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} … 2024-02-06 16:14:50, Info [ReAgentc.exe] Checking partition at offset 2198235774976, partition number: 3 2024-02-06 16:14:50, Info [ReAgentc.exe] MeetPartitionRequirements Partition details: {Offset: 2198235774976, Free space: 769089536, Total space: 786427904} 2024-02-06 16:14:50, Info [ReAgentc.exe] MeetPartitionRequirements WinRE WIM size: 471185238 2024-02-06 16:14:50, Info [ReAgentc.exe] MeetPartitionRequirements Required free space: 525711190 2024-02-06 16:14:50, Info [ReAgentc.exe] partition meets requirements 2024-02-06 16:14:50, Info [ReAgentc.exe] NOTE: select partition because it meets WinRE requirements … 2024-02-06 16:14:50, Info [ReAgentc.exe] Copying WinRE from C:\Windows\system32\Recovery to staging location on \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition3Any recovery partition must be identified as Recovery(Type:27) not Primary(Type:7) and be large enough to be suitable.
When not in use it should be empty. Use diskpart’s set id=27 command to change it.ReAgentC /disable moves everything from the recovery partition’s NTFS filesystem under \Recovery\WindowsRE to C:\Windows\system32\Recovery.
ReAgentC /enable moves everything from C:\Windows\system32\Recovery to a suitable recovery partition under \Recovery\WindowsRE.
If there is no suitable recovery partition, everything is moved into C:\Recovery\WindowsRE.You must use DIR /A to look at hidden and system files at an Administrator command prompt.
DISKPART> select disk 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> list partition Partition ### Type Size Offset ————- —————- ——- ——- Partition 1 Primary 50 MB 1024 KB Partition 2 Primary 2047 GB 51 MB Partition 3 Recovery 750 MB 2047 GB DISKPART> select part 3 Partition 3 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> detail partition Partition 3 Type : 27 Hidden: No Active: No Offset in Bytes: 2198235774976 Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ———- — ———– —– ———- ——- ——— ——– * Volume 3 Windows RE NTFS Partition 750 MB Healthy Hidden
I ran sysinternals Process Monitor while KB5034441 was installing and took some notes:
Command: C:\Windows\TEMP\IXP000.TMP\WinREUpdateInstaller.exe Read: C:\$WinREAgent\Scratch\update.wim Write: C:\$WinREAgent\Scratch\exported.wim Logging: C:\Windows\Logs\WinREAgent\setupact.log C:\Windows\system32>DIR /A /S C:\$WinREAgent Directory of C:\$WinREAgent 02/05/2024 09:24 PM <DIR> . 02/05/2024 09:24 PM <DIR> .. 02/05/2024 09:19 PM <DIR> Rollback 02/05/2024 09:24 PM 81 Rollback.xml 02/05/2024 09:24 PM 343 RollbackInfo.ini 02/05/2024 09:23 PM 3,935 WinREServicingManager.xml 3 File(s) 4,359 bytes Directory of C:\$WinREAgent\Rollback 02/05/2024 09:19 PM <DIR> . 02/05/2024 09:19 PM <DIR> .. 0 File(s) 0 bytes Total Files Listed: 3 File(s) 4,359 bytes
HP Compaq 6000 Pro SFF PC / Windows 10 Pro / 22H2
Intel®Core™2 “Wolfdale” E8400 3.0 GHz / 8.00 GB
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Easy solution! Just install these two packages from the online Microsoft Store:
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 UWP Desktop Runtime Package
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 UWP Runtime PackageThese all have DLLs with File version: 14.39.33519.0
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Intel®Core™2 “Wolfdale” E8400 3.0 GHz / 8.00 GB
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I’ve followed this a bit further (I’m stopping for now):
Complaints on reddit:
Windows Photos app and Calculator stopped working. File System Error (-2147219196).Here Matthew Jones writes:
If you input “Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.VCLibs.140.0* | Remove-AppxPackage” in PowerShell then you’ll see that VCLibs are dependencies for most of the apps that people say no longer work.He shows a newer version Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00_14.0.33321.0_* than what powershell on my system:
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.VCLibs.140.0*|select InstallLocation InstallLocation ————— C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00_14.0.27323.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00_14.0.30704.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop_14.0.30704.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00_14.0.32530.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop_14.0.32530.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00_14.0.32530.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop_14.0.32530.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
google[sse4.2 instruction set] says:
SSE4. 2 is an updated version of the Streaming SIMD Extensions 4 (SSE) CPU instruction set. Nowadays, all modern CPUs fully support this instruction set since it was already introduced in 2008 (Intel) / 2011 (AMD).I came across these using google[sse4.2 instruction set download]:
[Arnold] [MtoA] How to check if your processor supports SSE4.2
Use sysinternals coreinfo -fSSE4.2 fix (help for old CPU without this instruction)
Which uses Intel® Software Development Emulator:
Intel® SDE Current Version 9.33 Released on January 07, 2024 DOWNLOAD
The documentation from the download sde-external-9.33.0-2024-01-07-win.tar.xz\sde-external-9.33.0-2024-01-07-win\doc\getting_started.html says:
Intel® SDE is application level binary instrumentation based emulator.
Running Intel® SDE on applications is of the following pattern:
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Before you go updating any UWP apps using Microsoft Store (I haven’t yet, it may affect my PCs) you should have a look at this:
Windows 10 users report app gremlins after Microsoft update
When Redmond says unsupported, it really means it. Windows 11 fans beware
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Old Windows 10 hardware is struggling to open some recently updated Microsoft applications, giving anyone running Windows 11 on unsupported hardware a glimpse of their potential future.
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The answer appears to be the use of old hardware. Intel Core 2 Duo and Quad processors have featured in some of the reports, as well as some AMD Athlon chips. The Core 2 line first turned up in 2006 and, while not on the list of officially supported processors for Windows 10, the processor had more than enough oomph for many productivity tasks, until now.
A Register reader got in touch to highlight the situation: “A common theory is that the faulting component uses some instruction extension that Core 2 doesn’t support, such as SSE 4.2.”The article references Microsoft Photos: File system error (-2147219196) where on page 2 Salvatore Besso writes:
But I have to add more information. This morning I have tried all the Store apps that I have installed on this computer and there are many more with the same defect: It opens and then suddenly crashes. Following is the complete list of all apps that are crashing exactly like Photos:
- Calculator
- Movies and TV
- Photos
- Feedback Hub
- Paint 3D
- 3D Viewer
The error code -2147219196 is 80040904 in hex, which apparently means “Operation not supported”.
HP Compaq 6000 Pro SFF PC / Windows 10 Pro / 22H2
Intel®Core™2 “Wolfdale” E8400 3.0 GHz / 8.00 GB
HP ProDesk 400 G5 SFF PC / Windows 11 Pro / 23H2
Intel®Core™ “Coffee Lake” i3-8100 3.6 GHz / 16.00 GB
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