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So i have a challenge and question for you. My Windows 10 crashed itself yesterday evening with orange "bluescreen of death"(cursed be the guy or girl that designed cashing in Windows). I don't exactly remember the message but when laptop turned off... there was no longer detectable instance of Windows(cursed be the guy or girl designing boot part of Windows 10, only an idiot could do it like this).
Machine is Lenovo Y700 and Windows 10 x64.
That was the problem description part.
My troubleshoot part begins now. NONE OF THESE WORKED
I tried to check if that was hardware problem but all disks are detectable. Tried to reattach them. They all seem to be working fine.
Tried to change from UEFI boot to Legacy boot.
I created bootable repair USB and tried to chkdsk /r c:, nothing was corrupted there
Tried BOOTREC /SCANOS, BOOTREC /FIXMBR, BOOTREC /FIXBOOT, BOOTREC /REBUILDBCD.
Tried to automatic repair system. I knew it would not work as Windows troubleshoot tools are made by "dumb people" and they never work on Windows 10 but ok.(yes they are, in previous month my Windows 10 corrupted thanks to dumb system update cutting me from every program as they could not launch and menu start were frozen)
Tried revert to previous compilation but it cannot detect Windows Bootable Manager most probably, so no luck.
Cannot revert to base version as it does not see Windows at all.
Tried to install new Windows on top of the old one but it does not detect anything about it, so i don't even have the fricking WINDOWS KEY AS IT IS BUILT IN WINDOWS INSTANCE... GRRRRR
Now i need somebody to help me fix detection of Windows instance, so i can do anything about it. Please help.
You could try to remove the harddisk and conect is with an adapter to usb so it acts like an external drive, then install windows on it and place it back.
Or swap the disk in another laptop and do the same thing.
Or you could try to reinstall your bios (wich could cause even more headache)
Or perhaps your harddisk crashed and is not recoverable then replace your disk.
Or try to remove your RAM memory, perhaps that is corrupted..
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I have a Windows 7 host machine with a VMWARE Workstation 9 based guest operating instance. What I need is that the guest OS to not only run but runs inside the guest in the VMWARE Workstation gui upon a host reboot--say, from a power failure. I have tried all solutions online but so far I am unable to make the GUI to appear--though the guest OS does launch.
Here is my solution so far: I have created a .bat file and setup Windows Task Scheduler to start the .bat program. Here is what's inside the batch file:
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation"
vmrun start "C:\VirtualMachines\WindowsServer2012_std_ArcGISVM2\Windows Server 2012 Std.vmx" gui
Note, I am using 'vmrun' program but using other online solutions which use the VM Ware Workstation's executable doesn't help with the gui part either. And adding or removing the 'gui' flag doesn't seem to make any difference.
Also note, I'd rather not use the Workstation as a Server in a 'shared' virtual machine setup. There should be a simpler way.
Thanks!
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Never mind. I did end up creating a Shared VM per the instructions from another site (whose link is not working anymore!)
Here is how I accomplished this:
Using VMWare Workstation gui, pressed F9 to bring up option to enable Sharing of VMs.
In the Sharing window, right click on your VM ->Manage -> Share the VM; I chose default options.
In the same gui, under 'Shared VMs' tab, click 'Manage Auto Start'
That's all it took! And now I am able to launch the VMWare Workstation GUI after the host system reboots.
PS. I posted the Question here because I was originally using a script to achieve this; I thought there could be more scripts/programming solutions. Also, Expert Exchange maybe a competition but it provided me full solution yesterday without requiring any login; so, being a once paying member there, I had assumed that they have now become a 'free' site. But today their link doesn't work.
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I've been banging my head against a wall here and can't seem to get this Exchange Management Console to work. First some stats...
Device: Windows 7 Pro - Service Pack 1 - x64
Software - Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21570
I've installed the World Wide Web Publishing Service and it shows as 'running' in the services window.
The error I get when I launch the EMC.
"The world wide web publishing service (W3SVC) isn't running on any exchange server in the site"
Well... I beg to differ WINDOWS... Anyway, I've been searching a solution for this for over an hour now, the majority say that the EMC version needs to match the Windows version. It does. They are both SP1... Any guidance here would be amazing!
Thanks!
OK, Let's being like this, we need to get more precise Error 1 - Windows 7 Pro - Service Pack 1 - x64 Software - Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 IS NOT A DEVICE, it's a SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT, Just saying, Lets Save Time and Use the info you have already obtained from hours of research, You said Most of it says that the EMC Version NEEDS to match the Windows Version, So.. Let's start with the Error Message, W3SVC is not running, However You have Visually confirmed that the Service is running under Windows, that means that the EMC is not communicating with SERVICES, Now, You said that Most of your research leads to EMC VERSION NEEEDS TO MATCH WINDOWS VERSION, then you stated "it does they are both Service Pack 1" BE ADVISED Service Packs ARE NOT Versions, so let's now Please do some research and get back to me with the EMC version and the Windows Version You can obtain windows version by going to SEARCH and typing winver We already know that your Using Windows 7 Professional 9 i assume 64bit) , so logically, Find out the Version of your EMC and Exchange server and you should be heading in the right direction, my guess is this will most likely fix your issue, Keep in mind, Service Pack 1, is not a version, it's a Service Pac Please do that first and then we can proceed, My guess is that the Versions need to be the same in order to communicate with SERVICES, Sound Logical, get that done and i think you'll have yourself a solution. let me know how you go.
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I had a directory 'c:\windows.old\ leftover from upgrading Windows 8 to 8.1. I wanted to delete the directory and could kill most of it using Windows Explorer shift+delete (delete no undelete).
However there were a few tricks left in there from good old MSFT themselves. For some odd reason they decided that having really long names (RLNs) for the cache entries was a Good Idea. Most Windows utilities (Del/Dir/PowerShell get-children) just die a stinking death when they see a file with a RLN.
So off on the hunt for something to put them out of their too-long misery.
I found this PowerShell add-on module at http://poshcode.org/2488. Joel's ps module adds several commands to ps, including get-longpath and remove-longpath.
Download the zip from his site and unzip it to C:\windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\1.0\modules. You should now have an Experimental.IO folder in the ps modules directory.
Crank up PowerShell ISE (windows key+x, select Windows
PowerShell ISE) or open the PowerShell command windows (Windows key+x,
Windows PowerShell).
Navigate to the directory with the offending RLN files (e.g. 'c:\Windows.old\users{{username}}\Appdata\Local\Microsoft\Windows Store\Cache\0'. Your ps prompt should now be:
Now on to more productive work.
PS C:\Windows.old\users{{username}}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Store\Cache\0>
Enter this command: Get-LongPath | Remove-LongPath
This will pipe the RLN filenames to Remove-LongPath. PowerShell just returns to the command prompt, but you verify there are no long files by entering Get-Longpath (or its alias glp) and Dir to see there are no long any RLN files in the directory.
As a last note, if you want to save yourself about an hour, refer to this SO post to ask Windows to delete the Windows.old folder on your behalf from the Disk Cleanup utility.
1) Put Linux on a thumb drive. Ubuntu will be fine.
2) Boot to the thumb drive.
3) Delete the files in question from the UI or from the command line:
rm /path/to/file/that/you're/deleting/42915u02u51...24521.doc
Honestly deleting it wth a Linux thumb drive is far simpler and more reliable than hoping Windows utilities and workarounds won't muck it up.
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Chroot is often assimiled to be a kind sandbox. But in Unix, it also allow use of programs on certain non-bootable installation.
When I search chroot for windows: I see things like sandbox. I don't want security, I want a way to rescue the system. By example, if I disabled syskey with ntpasswd, running C:\windows\system32\syskey.exe with a such utility would modify the registry entries of the of the offline installation, not the current one.
It could be called runon similar as runas for alternative users.
What chroot would means here for windows? Well, there is winre which allow having the same drive letters of your windows installation. There is an example: compact.exe is not present on winre installs. if you cd to \%Windir%\system32 (the directory of the offline install) and run compact, it won't work(except if you use it with /?). If you run
X:\sources\>path C:\Windows\System32\
You now use the files present in your offline windows. Base dlls such as ntdll.dll or eventually gdi.dll are those from C:\Windows\System32 instead of X:\%windir%\system32 and running compact will work.
But Programs runned by this way will use the current registry. The main keys (HKLM; HKCC; HKCR; HKCU; HKU; HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA) with their contents, are those of the current winre/pe installation, not those you have when you booted in your windows. So, if a program want to modify some registry entries, it will modify the Hives of X:\windows\system32\config not those of located in the C:\ systemdrive.
It is possible to mount the Hives of your offline windows under HKLM and edit them, but the programs which have their informations in HKLM\Software would still look at HKLM\Software and not at the name you mounted it.
The utility I am looking for would (partially?) hide the registry of winpe/re in favour of the one present in the offline install. The expected effect is that if you launch the registry editor with the utility, you will see the keys as if you would have booted into windows. (Maybe with some exceptions?)
The application would still use the Microsoft services of the current windows. I'd like launching services installed on the offline windows that are not installed on the current one. It would be nice to do this even for kernel ones. By this way, you would have the same behaviour when you launch sysv daemons in unix. Except here some mechanism for avoiding dual instances could be necessary, because the problems would be more critical on windows
The user access rights are an important part in the Microsoft systems. Specifying a user name and password in the parameters of the command line could be necessary. Some problems occurs with a bad User database configuration and prevent windows to boot. If want to enable syskey again, It would need to have the authentication informations which couldn't be used. But in some case like syskey problems, it make windows in endless reboots. I think one possibility would be to find a way to mount the user Hives by providing their path instead of login informations. Or if it is impossible, try to keep the user keys/informations of the current booted windows.
I don't know if a utility like this exist. I'd like help for programming it with mingw from linux (I can't have Visual Studio) . It would be good if it don't need to be installed. I would like it don't use .NET or the full windows API, because I would like to see it working under winre. I write for C/C++ under linux, but I never done it for windows. The only experience I have is provided by the fact I managed to build 7-Zip with winebuilder. I just know that the main function is called "main" for console programs and "WinMain" for windows ones. I am not familiar with WINAPI nor nt API. I just know there are not real equivalent to the chroot() of the Unix API.
I hope this is possible, thanks in advance.
The answer, after some review, is No. You can't do that. There are too many embedded references to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in the various system DLLs; at the very best, you would end up with a very buggy system (since different parts of the system would be seeing different views of the machine configuration.)
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Couldn't seem to get any bites on this over at "AskDifferent" so thought I'd try here.
As I'm waiting for my new gleaming iMac to arrive, I'm considering buying OS X Server since it's only $20 now and offers Open Directory.
We have two MacBook Pros, so I'd like to have all of us able to log into any of the 3 Macs with our ID.
1) Can I simply switch from a local user to a network user without losing my home directory contents?
2) Is it just my home directory that is mirrored on the server? Or is it all the applications I've installed etc. For example, if I install an application on Laptop A will it show up on Laptop B?
3) I assume that when I have the laptop somewhere that the server is not available, that I can still get to all my home directory contents. They will then magically sync back up when I get back to my regular network?
Thanks in advance
I have something of a similar nature in my home.. A Mac server and two iMacs and a Macbook Pro running off it. For this to work properly the iMac has to be running constantly, or in a state where it can be waked through Ethernet (configurable in System Preferences). To answer your questions:
1) You can do this, but it isn't automatic. You need to copy the content from the local user to the networked user, essentially creating a new user account in the process and copying all of your existing content to that. If you feel adventurous, you could try this ( http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5338 ), which is Apple's method of converting a local account to a networked one, but it doesn't require some work in the terminal, which is a little much for some people.
2) The optimal setup is where the server is the basis for all of your files, and they are simply downloaded to your Macbooks when you log in. And then any changes that are made are reflected on the server, and hence everywhere you log in.
3) Mountain Lion makes this pretty easy, and it will sync every time the laptop returns to the local network. The best directions can be found here: ( https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4154950?start=0&tstart=0 ).