I am using the Media Creation Tool to download an ISO image of Windows 10 - the download is still running (as of 1659 July 24, 2016.
I will use that ISO to create an install DVD.
My question is: If I try to use the DVD to upgrade to Windows 10 after July 29, 2016, will it do a free upgrade?
Or does the installation itself have to occur before July 29th?
If it isn't obvious to you what the answer is, I'd call the Microsoft Marketing Department during business hours on the West Coast.
But my instincts tell me that they're going to ping a server at Microsoft, and that said server is going to have a clock . . .
. . . so, if it matters, in some significant way, whether-or-not the process will work after this date, I reckon you've got exactly one week to find out, "straight from the horse's mouth." :-)
"Don't guess, when you can ask."
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A client's file seems to have vanished overnight between Sunday Jan 29th 23:30 and Monday 10:30 AM CST (Chicago time) and we want to rule out or locate anything a Windows update might have done to cause this problem. Automatic updates was enabled. The user was not on the computer during that period.
When I look in Windows Update / Update History there were 8 or so recent updates which do no show up on the list of updates that can be rolled back. I'm not familiar with this. All the updates around this period begin the same: "Security Intelligence Update for Microsoft Defender Antivirus - KB2267602", one on Jan 29th and two on Jan 30th.
Larger context -- the file that appears to be suddenly missing is a standard menu item in AOL Desktop Gold called "Saved to my PC" which contains ( or did ) several thousand email messages going back years.
The ( generally clueless ) AOL helpdesk (a least the 8 different people we were routed through ) denied that AOL did any update to their product in this time window. They also were unable to find any record of a 3.2 hour session we had with them April 24,2022 about this same file and told us they don't keep tickets over 6 months, and for 7 of them we had to explain to them how their own product worked. Sigh.
When i say the file has vanished what i mean is that there used to be a menu item linking ot that hard-drive file / folder / directory and the entire link was now suddenly missing. I only today managed to find out by web surfing the name of the (hidden) filee and haven't yet determined whether the file is actually missing, or whether just the link to the file is broken. I did locate a dozen other people over the past few years who similarly lost their AOL mail and had no joy from AOL help desk in locating or restoring it.
So one possible thing the security update to Windows Defender could have done was finally scanned for some new virus, found it, and possibly quarantined the file instead of deleting it. I'll check that this afternoon.
So, the file may have been deleted, or some symlink to it may have been deleted, in which case uninstalling the updates won't help.
BUT, I wanted to SEE if uninstalling the updates would magically make the file ( menu item) suddenly work again, so I come here to ask you wise people if there is some way to unstall such updates that are not on the provided list of updates to uninstall.
More likely it got quarantined and I need to go figure out where the log of such events is kept. (and what to do if that is true. ) I know the 11 hour window in which that would have happened.
Any bright ideas? What am I overlooking and what question should I have been asking?
Thank you!
Wade
We have VB6 LOB app that makes extensive use of the MSHMTL.* and IEFRAME.* To be clear, nothing is running in IE11 and there's zero ActiveX. We use these for displaying reports and the like.
With the end of IE11 being announced here (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/internet-explorer-microsoft-edge) and elsewhere, there's some confusion as to whether the DLLs, etc. will likewise go away.
Anyone know more since TechNet has pretty bare bones info on this?
In advance, save any comments to port to .NET or why still VB6. It's tens of thousands of lines of code, works perfectly, and is not on the internet - so not a security risk nor will .NET have added any value. Helps, too, that it's portable as all the dependencies exist even now on latest Windows 10 releases.
Lets read the page you linked to
Beginning January 12, 2016, only the most current version of Internet
Explorer available for a supported operating system receives technical
support and security updates.
and from the table
Windows 10 Internet Explorer 11
That page does not announce the end of Internet Explorer.
The page says what is well known. It is 4 years old after all.
What is says is that only the last version of Internet Explorer for a OS version will receive updates.
If you bought Windows 8 with Internet Explorer 10 and Internet Explorer 11 is available for that version, you will only receive updates for Internet Explorer 11.
So if your version of Windows supports Internet Explorer 11 you must update to it IE 11 to continue receiving security updates.
If your OS version only supports IE 10 you will receive updates for IE 10.
And there is nothing about programming in this, it is about IE support policy.
There is nothing from Microsoft that indicated other than IE11 will not be installed on future releases of Windows 10. They do say that IE will be supported for as long as whatever they decide it will be if IE 11 is on a given PC. That's not the same thing.
Further and most important for what I care about is, what about MSHMTL.* and IEFRAME.*
Will they be there whether or not IE11 is installed? And yes, I know this is basically IS (over-simplification by some that responded), but that's not at all the same thing.
Windows has included many legacy dependencies for ages.
So unless anyone has something better to say that read what they wrote or the line, that would be welcome and feel free to comment and re-open this, but so far there's nothing to actually answer that concern, albeit perhaps I did not ask it as specifically as this.
I have been using WMI to retrieve the antivirus/antispyware/firewall products registered in the Windows Security Center. Since last month duplicate entries for ESET Internet Security started showing up (since v12.2.29). Somebody else said it also happened with McAfee.
ESET said that since Windows 8, WMI should not be used to check this as there is new API made specifically for this. Apparently this is IWscProduct, which indeed does not seem to report the duplicates.
But I want to know if WMI can still be used as well, as this is required for pre-Win8 and I have not seen any reports that it shouldn't be used in Win8+ anymore.
To test, use this command line to check the installed antivirus products:
WMIC /Node:localhost /Namespace:\\root\SecurityCenter2 Path AntiVirusProduct Get /Format:List
And this is what it outputs on my computer:
displayName=Windows Defender
instanceGuid={D68DDC3A-831F-4fae-9E44-DA132C1ACF46}
pathToSignedProductExe=windowsdefender://
pathToSignedReportingExe=%ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender\MsMpeng.exe
productState=393472
timestamp=Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:09:34 GMT
displayName=ESET Security
instanceGuid={885D845F-AF19-0124-FECE-FFF49D00F440}
pathToSignedProductExe=C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Security\ecmds.exe
pathToSignedReportingExe=C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Security\ekrn.exe
productState=266240
timestamp=Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:20:20 GMT
displayName=ESET Security
instanceGuid={EC1D6F37-E411-475A-DF50-12FF7FE4AC70}
pathToSignedProductExe=C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Security\ecmds.exe
pathToSignedReportingExe=C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET Security\ekrn.exe
productState=266240
timestamp=Wed, 02 Oct 2019 07:08:22 GMT
Windows Defender is disabled and as you can see, the second ESET entry has not been touched for over a month now.
Now my questions are:
Can WMI(C) still be used to query the Windows Security Center in Win8+?
If not, has anybody seen any reports/warnings about this?
Or is this a Microsoft bug?
Or is ESET (and McAfee?) doing something wrong (registering a new version without deregistering the old one)?
Any help is much appreciated.
I need some help on something... today I figured out that my Visual Studio was uninstalled from my pc.... this is a corporative computer, and I have reasons to thing that one of the guys of networking uninstalled it using some kind of network organization tool or something like that, that kind of things in corporations that they install and uninstall things in the background of your computer... after take a look to my event viewer, it seems VS was uninstalled about a week ago at 11:42 pm saying "Windows installer removed the product VS" blabla, I know I dont remove that, so must be some kind of background operation.... Is there any way to check if my software was removed for someone else? thanks a lot
There is the event viewer message includes User field. This says you who do that.
I get this problem, when trying to connect to Windows Azure hosted server from my Mac OSX Filezilla FTP Client:
220 Microsoft FTP Service530 User cannot log in
Error: Critical errorError: Could not connect to server
This only started happening as of October 29, 2013. Prior to that, I would get a "Critical error" every now and again, but was always easy to refresh and upload without haste.
I tried CyberDuck and it told me to contact service provider, but has anyone found a solution to this?
We use Windows Azure to host our site, and I run Mac OSX. Surely, this would have always been a problem before and not have just sprung up recently for this reason alone (Windows vs Mac) right?!
Please see: Servicedashboard Windows Azure at http://www.windowsazure.com/nl-nl/support/service-dashboard/
30 Oct 2013 7:00 PM UTC
We are aware of an issue being reported regarding Windows Azure Web Sites FTP data access. We are responding to this issue with the highest level of priority. Further updates will be published to keep you apprised of the impact. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes our customers.
Last update:
We are narrowing in on the issue with full engineering engagement. Web Site customers are advised to publish content using Web Deploy or Git which are fully functional. For details on using these methods, visit Azure.com and search for "Websites with Webmatrix" or "Publishing with Git". We apologize for any inconvenience this causes our customers and will provide an update at 2pm UTC.
You can find more details on the issue and a possible workaround here http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsazure/en-US/b2853874-160f-4156-bd0a-0247cac04831/cannot-connect-to-azure-websites-ftp-server?forum=windowsazurewebsitespreview