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Microsoft Windows 10 English 1903 and 1809 download links

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/02

Below are some download links for Windows 10 version history: Version 1903 (May 2019 Update) – Wikipedia.

Note that the MediaCreationTool usually fails (not just for 1903, prior versions have failed for me for unknown reasons far too often).

It is way better to use rufus to build a bootable USB stick from the ISO installation download.

Here are the relevant links:

Creating the USB with Rufus

Be aware that you can use two partition schemes:

  • MBR (with automatic target system “BIOS (or UEFI-CSM)”
  • GPT (with automatic target system “UEFI (non CSM)”

Many older systems to not support GPT, so then you will stare at a blinking cursor on a black screen when trying to boot from it.

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“Nobody” Can Ping My Windows 10 Computer

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/10

A problem with ICMP can be that you if you allow File and Printer Sharing, that ICMPv4 and ICMPv6 for both Private and Public networks are only allowed for the Local subnet.

For Domain networks, however it is allowed for Any subnet.

You can see the difference in this picture:

The solution presented at [WayBack] Nobody Can Ping My Computer – Technet MSDN library is to add a less restrictive set of rules:

  1. In the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security snap-in, click Inbound Rules in the tree, and click New Rule in the Actions Pane.
  2. Click Custom and click Next.
  3. Click All programs and click Next.
  4. For Protocol type, select ICMPv4.
  5. Click Customize for Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) settings.
  6. Click Echo Request, click OK, and then click Next.
  7. Under Which local IP address does this rule match? and for Which remote IP address does this rule match click either Any IP address or These IP Addresses. If you click These IP addresses, specify the IP addresses and click Add, then click Next.
  8. Click Allow the connection, and then click Next.
  9. Under When does this rule apply?, click the active profile, any or all profiles (Domain, Private, Public) to which you want this rule to apply, and then click Next.
  10. For Name type a name for this rule and for Description an optional description. Click Finish.
  11. Repeat steps for ICMPv6, selecting ICMPv6 for Protocol Type instead of ICMPv4.

You can also add these rules using the netsh advfirewall command as shown at [WayBack] How to Allow Pings (ICMP Echo Requests) Through Your Windows Firewall

–jeroen

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How to clear screen artifacts without rebooting Windows (multiple versions) – Super User

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/20

  1. go to control panel | display
  2. change the screen resolution. the artifact will go away
  3. click on cancel when windows asks you if you want to keep the new resolution.

this works on laptops too.

[WayBack] User mahesh – Super User answering [WayBack] How to clear screen artifacts without rebooting Windows (multiple versions) – Super User

–jeroen

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if statement – How to ask for batch file user input with a timeout – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/14

The trick is to use the choice command; see [WayBack] if statement – How to ask for batch file user input with a timeout – Stack Overflow

–jeroen

Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

Delphi Code Monkey: Cool Advanced Troubleshooting Technique – WinDbg

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/11

This so much reminds me of a struggle in the Toshiba Tecra 750CDT era: [WayBack] Delphi Code Monkey: Cool Advanced Troubleshooting Technique – WinDbg.

First about Warren’s issue:

His laptop froze only in Windows 10, but not Windows 7, after doing some debugging work. Display is on, but non-responsive. He ruled out a lot of things, thought it was a video issue, looked for pointers how to research it ending to force memory dumps by keyboard then running WinDbg to further pinpoint the cause.

He solved the issue by removing the Lenovo supplied Intel graphics driver and forcing the Intel HD Graphics 520 OEM drivers onto the system and posted a few interesting links:

Then some history:

Back in the 750CDT days, the problem was the combination of Toshiba using OEM S3 Virge/MX video drivers, Windows GDI and TImageList with a lot of images in them (basically: the component palette).

Result: interrupt freeze of the laptop, so not even mouse or keyword would work.

Solutions:

  • use Windows NT, not Windows 95
  • disable all S3 hardware acceleration
  • use the Toshiba 780 series video drivers

From then on, I’ve never developed on Windows 9x based systems any more, but Windows NT based systems (even though it was much harder to get drivers for all hardware components), this despite the fact that with Windows NT 4, Microsoft video drivers from ring 3 to ring 0 (they were at ring 3 until and including Windows NT 3.51 [Archive.is]). On the one hand the move to ring 0 caused more blue screens, on the other hand made it a lot harder to directly access hardware from user software running at ring 3.

 

–jeroen

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Windows: force a CHKDSK of a non system disk at boot time

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/22

Just out of curiosity, I wanted to try run a CHKDSK at boot time of a non-system disk.

The trick appears to be to ensure something locks the drive. An easy way to do that is have a command prompt open inside a directory on that drive.

The below example show just that: a regular command prompt locking the E: drive and an administrative command prompt scheduling the check at boot time:

In text

Regular command prompt:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.15063]
(c) 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\jeroenp>e:

E:\>cd $RECYCLE.BIN

E:\$RECYCLE.BIN>

Administrative command prompt:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>chkdsk /R /F E:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process.  Chkdsk may run if this volume is dismounted first.
ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID.
Would you like to force a dismount on this volume? (Y/N) n

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process.  Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N) y

This volume will be checked the next time the system restarts.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>

–jeroen

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Windows 10: force to sleep at night, but allow wake up for Windows Updates

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/04

I do not like a machine that sleeps after a certain amount of inactivity as I might have a long running job going on.

Usually however, I do like to have a machine off at night, even if I forget to put it asleep.

Exceptions for sleeping are just two:

  • automatic back-up schedule
  • allowing Windows Updates

Luckily you can tell Windows 10 to allow for all cases.

Enabling wake-up during Windows Updates

Note I’m not fully sure which BIOS settings you need to enable – if any- to have this work on all systems. Wake up works on my machine for these [WayBack] psshutdown parameter combinations:

  • psshutdown.exe -h -t 0 (Hibernate)
  • psshutdown.exe -d -t 0 (Suspend)

It fails with these:

  • psshutdown.exe -s -t 0 -f (Shutdown without poweroff)
  • psshutdown.exe -k -t 0 (Poweroff)

The odd thing: Wake-on-LAN can usually wake up the last two.

This is done with the gpedit.msc (via [WayBack] How to prevent Windows 10 waking from sleep when traveling in bag? – Super User, thanks xxxbence)

Follow this path:

  1. Local Computer Policy
  2. Computer Configuration
  3. Administrative Templates
  4. Windows Components
  5. Windows Update

Double click Enabling Windows Update Power Management to automatically wake up the system to install scheduled updatesto show the below dialog.

Enable it:

so it looks like this:

Forcing sleep (in my case hibernate) using the Task Scheduler

In Windows 7..10: disable shutdown/hibernate/sleep/restart from UI I wrote about shutdown /h /f to hibernate a machine. You can force to run this from the taskschd.msc (Windows Task Scheduler):

I wanted history for tasks, so I started taskschd.msc as Administrator, then on the right Actions Pane, I clicked on Enable All Tasks History:

 also explained in [WayBack] How can I enable the Windows Server Task Scheduler History recording? – Stack Overflow and can be verified/set on the console as well:

  • Get as any user: wevtutil get-log Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational
  • Set as Administrator: wevtutil set-log Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational /enabled:true

I named the task __ sleep at 2300 with these settings:

Ensure the Program/script itself is shutdown and the parameters are /h /f:

–jeroen

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Windows 10: mounting an ISO to a specific drive letter and keeping that drive letter after boot

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/01

I tried finding a way with the built-in Windows tools to keep an ISO mounted to a specific drive letter (some software remembers the drive letter it got installed from and disallows changing it).

I couldn’t. Luckily there is WinCDEmu which supports more formats than the built-in Windows tools as well.

[WayBack] WinCDEmu – How to keep images mounted

  1. Right click the ISO file
  2. Choose Select drive letter & mount
  3. In the popup dialog, put check marks if you need any of these options:
    • Disable autorun for this time
    • Keep drive after restart

So I can add that to the list of WinCDEmu features I wrote about before (from newer to older):

WinCDEmu is open source; if you want to build it from scratch, you need these repositories:

 

–jeroen

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Windows 10 Feature Focus: Backup and Recovery – Thurrott.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/01

I totally forgot that the Windows 7/8/8.1. stuff (that makes a back-up to VHD/VHDX) is still in the Control Panel:

While Windows 10 doesn’t actually add any new backup or recovery tools, it provides great upgrades to the tools it previously offered in Windows 7 and 8.

Source: [WayBack] Windows 10 Feature Focus: Backup and Recovery – Thurrott.com

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How to hide an entire drive from prying eyes on Windows 10 | Windows Central

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/25

For my link archive: 3 ways to hide drive letters.

TL;DR:

  1. Using diskman.msc (Disk Management) by removing drive letters or/and changing the mount point to be in another drive.
  2. Using regedit.exe (or other Registry Editor like reg.exe) for a bitmap of drive letters to add a value named [WayBack] NoDrives to
    • globally to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
    • locally for the current user to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
  3. Using secpol.msc (Local Security Policy editor, or find it through gpedit.msc) to add a security policy similar to the registry.

Source: [WayBack] How to hide an entire drive from prying eyes on Windows 10 | Windows Central

After setting NoDrive you have to reboot (logoff/logon isn’t sufficient).

For the NoDrive bitmap: these list below has the values to add for each drive to hide, but it’s easier to use the [WayBack] NT Drive Calculator – The ‘NoDrives’ Registry Key Value Calculator which calculates the Decimal version of the value needed.

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