@lucylu said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1: Wow. Glad I found this post as our company does not have enough resources to purchase W10 licenses for all our PCs in our network. Has anyone else here went ahead and used the methods above to obtain a free license key? If so, do you recommend doing this for 100+ PCs? It's not a new license key, it's making your existing license key into a Windows 10 valid one. It's still the old key that you had before. And yes, you'd definitely use this for any number of machines, it's not limited in some way to just small numbers at one site. In fact, purchasing Windows 10 licenses if you already have free upgrade rights would be pretty wasteful.

@Dashrender said in An Overview of Windows 8 and 8.1 - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: @scottalanmiller said in An Overview of Windows 8 and 8.1 - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: @Dashrender said in An Overview of Windows 8 and 8.1 - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: Pretty sure 512 megs of RAM was not the common thing when Windows 8 came out. Perhaps 2 GB, Though my shops have been running 4 GB since Windows 7. It's true, 2GB was the super low end for Windows 7, and 4GB was more the norm. I had 6GB during the Win 7 era and it wasn't considered to be much, 8GB was a good amount but not crazy. Agreed - I personally had 8+ GB of RAM - virtual machines baby... pffft - 16GB, now 32GB... all the things.

Updated with 1903

Good tip had someone on the phone last week saying their number lock wasn't staying on after reboots

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/13/microsoft_kills_support_old_windows_on_new_chips/

My answer to the OP. I mean I am not saying MS is good or bad, or Linux OS's are good or bad. But the OP was just a whiny bitch.

Thanks @Mike-Davis That is just want was needed. added it to my other script and works great thus far.

@gjacobse said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB: @Minion-Queen said in Surface Pro 3: Boot from USB: I would but it's a customer machine so off to MS to get fixed it goes. I still like the sledgehammer option Frisbee?

@travisdh1 said in Windows 7 and 8.1 updates switching to cumulative monthly rollups starting in October: @scottalanmiller said in Windows 7 and 8.1 updates switching to cumulative monthly rollups starting in October: I've seen a lot of people complaining that there have so many small patches break things that this will cause support problems for them. I should pull the local repair shop owners in here, you'd never hear the end of it. Ha! Yeah, why do patch updates only seem to affect consumers and SMBs?

@scottalanmiller said in Updating Windows from the Command Line: Keeping a system up to date is very important and doing so from the command line can be one of the easiest ways to do this on Windows. Updating a Windows system, server or desktop, can be as simple as running this command as an administrator: wuauclt.exe /detectnow /updatenow If you only want to look for the latest updates without applying them, you can just run: wuauclt.exe /detectnow Also: wuauclt.exe /a /detectnow (/ResetAuthorization) http://ss64.com/nt/wuauclt.html

@scottalanmiller said: @johnhooks said: Well looks like I might actually have to go over there. I tried to switch users and it looks like it's stuck or something. TeamViewer is hung on a cannot display error. Suck. Never seen that with SC, just saying Well I normally use NoMachine and connect to the ZT network I set up for them. But somehow she screwed that up as well. So this was a last ditch effort to get something working.

@gjacobse said: I was informed that he is about 20' from the router on Wireless, but that TWC is to be onsite today to setup / move the equipment and then he will be within 5' of it. Just hope it's not to close and overloads the wireless radio's.

I'm confused - You're using folder redirection, so the local copy of the data is only there for speed or network connectivity loss. So there should be nearly zero data loss if you delete the profile after the user logs out. I'm not sure if there is a reg key on Windows Workstation OS, but there definitely is on Server OS for Remote Desktop Services. This was something I've seen often turned on to keep the local storage needs of the RDS server from ballooning out of control from left over profiles. User logs into RDS, downloads profile, user logs out - copy is pushed to the server and local directory is deleted. Pretty standard practice. I'd be surprised if this wasn't available on say Windows 7, etc.

@gjacobse said: @travisdh1 No - User accounts are 'left' so that is connection to the AD / DC is lost, then the user can still log on. That's not totally true, all profiles files are left, that doesn't mean you can still login to it necessarily. There's no process for AD to talk to the local computer to tell it the user was removed. It is just a directory service, The local computer has to request to login to the account. There is no method AD to tell computers anything changed without them requesting.

Just putting it out there for the sake of it. You can run the User State Migration Tool... https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824873.aspx

@thanksajdotcom said: The only good Acer machines I ever saw were the netbooks. Those things were just awesome! Their monitors can be 'ok' but not great. Granted Acer doesn't really make them. Neither does anyone else make their own monitors for the most part.

@Jason They can't connect to the domain network, they're force onto the guest network. As we required any devices that want to join the domain network, they must already be in the domain. Additionally, they need to authenticate via RADIUS. The guest network is vlan'd off.

Update. If I create an event on the Surface with the calendar it shows up in the Zoho calendar, however if I create an event in Zoho it does not show up on the Surface.

Easier question to ask - did any computers loose power at all? If the answer is yes, then ask, was it all or just some? If some, then possibly you had a 3 phase power related issue. If not, then this is not an issue.

I would think it should be close enough - like you said,.. assuming it is like most companies. I do have another fall back option.. just a matter of coordinations.. Former co-worker has the same laptop (it's his fault I bough this thing).. so push comes to the last line,..I might be able to get it from him..... Maybe.

@scottalanmiller said: We need to understand where and when it is happening and why it potentially makes sense and if and where potential concerns exist. But that data is being collected itself is not a major concern. Agreed. I want a list of what they collect & why & how it's used & who can use it. Then I'll quit sharpening my pitchfork and disperse the mob. Edit: I may settle for less explanation if they get super specific about what they collect.

Exactly dashrender. the original OS that came with it was Windows 8.1. Single Language. I upgraded to Pro pack for the domain and have that key but it won't accept it as need the original OS first.

@scottalanmiller said: @shybrsky said: mm..how to put last comment to our reply ?? Go to the post you want to respond to and click the "quote" button. thanks..

With so many services starting up, there is a lot of chances for things to have not all fired up yet.

@Carnival-Boy said: I think I'm going to stick with 7 and then jump straight to 10 as I expect users will find the transition from 7 to 10 easier than 7 to 8.1. Plus, it means I'll only have two OSs to support (7 and 10) rather than three (7, 8.1, 10). At this point definitely a good plan. Windows 10 is not far away and looks like it is going to be a really good release.

@scottalanmiller said: Magic When it doubt, chalk it up to magic. Lol

@Dashrender said: nope Ok, so no signal conflict. This is quite perplexing.

@Carnival-Boy said: ..that and the fact that it seems a bit crap and unreliable.