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My condolences to his family and friends. Although I discovered him and his website rather late compared to others, I immediately liked his honesty and sometimes bluntness in the way he approached the IT-industry. The result is that on AskWoody there are a lot of Woody-like-minded people, which I really like.

From now on the name AskWoody will have an extra meaning: a memory of the man who was kind to people, but brutally honest about the IT-industry and its “professionals”.

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DrBonzo, Slowpoke47, Elly, Kirsty, Myst, jackslate

Open a command prompt with administrator rights and type “reagentc /info”. You will then a.o. be shown where the RE components are located.

 

One of my systems has no WinRE partition. The recovery components are installed in the system partition. I did get a Download error at first but after retrying the update was installed.

https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/0x80070643-error_install_failure-with-kb5034441/#post-2621168

Please note that the Download error in the image does not mean that this installation error has occurred. On one machine I received this download error, but after a retry the update did install. This was on a Win10 x86 MBR test installation that I made a few days ago and which surprisingly does not have a WinRE partition, which I just found out. I am currently testing why it does not have a WinRE partition. I assumed all fresh installs always get a recovery partition, but perhaps that is not the case.

On another machine, a VM with Win10 x86 (MBR), I also got the download error, but after a retry also the installation error. The WinRE partition in that VM is 450 MB which is apparently not enough. I have read that elsewhere too. Disk management indicates that 450 MB is free.

 

You can always make an image and then restore the partitions with a different size. You can even change the order of the partitions when restoring if you want to, thereby changing the partition order to what has been the order when doing a fresh installation of Windows 10  for a couple of years now.

I have done both at the same time a couple of years ago when feature updates still made an extra WinRE partition sometimes and it worked well. The order will then be (1) EFI partition, (2) System partition, (3) WinRE partition. You then probably also have to repair the boot. I did so by using Macrium Reflect’s Fix boot option. I can highly recommend Macrium Reflect (Home or Free) to do this, especially because of the Fix boot option that is available in the rescue media.

 

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PL1

That’s really a bummer. I don’t have smartphone and use Authy desktop for my 2FA. Thanks for letting me know. I guess I have to search for another desktop app that also synchronizes between devices. I also use RoboForm for 2FA, but only for social media accounts, because I do not want to save keys of important accounts in my password manager. That would mean that only one program needs to be breached instead of two to get me into trouble.

 

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Hi LHiggins. You are all set. I was under the impression that you had installed the trial version to upgrade to v8, because you mentioned being afraid it was going to ask for a paid upgrade which will never happen if you install Free. My bad and my apologies, I should have read Imacri’s post a bit better. I wanted you to avoid falling into the trap assuming that the trial version reverts to free, which it used to do, but which it does not do anymore. I sometimes still see confusion about that.

 

 

 

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LHiggins

I am sorry to inform you that after 30 days it will be asking for a paid upgrade, unless you have bought a v7 license on or after 15th November 2020 in which case the upgrade is free (see this page). If you do not have a license for v8 it will fall back to restore only functionality after 30 days. If that is the case and you do not want to pay for the upgrade, it might be better to now restore an image that contains your system when v7 was still installed, in order to avoid the situation where you can only perform restores or having to restore the image containing v7 at that moment and then having to again apply all the changes that have been made since the date of the image.

The only way to upgrade to v8 free is to use the latest v8 Free installer, which can also be downloaded directly from Macrium as described in this post. Unfortunately it is not possible to install an older version on top of a newer version, therefore it is not possible to install v8 Free on top of your current v8 trial, because your trial version is a higher version than the latest free version. The only way to do that is to uninstall Macrium keeping all settings (you can choose this after starting the uninstall process), reboot and then install the latest Free version. This might be another route you could choose, but it is more cumbersome in my opinion. Personally I would choose to restore the latest image with v7 installed and then upgrade to v8 free using the latest v8 Free installer.

 

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LHiggins

I accidentally posted my reply at the wrong place, so I am copying its text here. Is there a possibility to delete a post? I looked for it, but have not found it.

 

What many people outside the EU do not realize is that moving or selling an OEM license is allowed in the EU.

Some links:

(1) https://www.theregister.com/2002/05/08/selling_oem_windows_copies_you/

(2) https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/CJE_12_94

What many people outside the EU do not realize is that moving or selling an OEM license is allowed in the EU.

Some links:

(1) https://www.theregister.com/2002/05/08/selling_oem_windows_copies_you/

(2) https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/CJE_12_94

There still is a way to get Reflect Free directly from Macrium. Download the Macrium Reflect Download Agent from this page. Then change the filename to any other name than reflectdlfull.exe. Only if you change the filename will you get a choice between Reflect Free and Reflect Home when running the Download Agent. If you don’t change the filename you get a choice between Home, Workstation and (I believe) Server.

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I had a similar issue, but it only happened with my freshly installed Windows 7 machines. The computers that I upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 could be found, the ones with a fresh installation not. After a long search I found the solution in Windows’ helptext, of all places.

I found that it is crucial to have the Function Discovery Resource Publication service running. After setting that service on automatic my fresh Win7 installs could be found.

The helptext also mentions that DNS-clientservice, SSDP Discovery service and UPnP Device Host service need to be running. Usually the first two are already running and the UPnP Device Host service not. The latter is not really a problem for being able to see the computer in a network.

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Cybertooth

Macrium always has a big sale during Black Friday/Cyber Monday.  Usually it is 50% off, also for upgrades. If you can wait until November 2023 and until then use the free version, you will save a lot of money.

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KWGuy

Thanks for your post. I was not aware that besides the Easy Fix I also needed to manually add another set of registry keys. Could you tell me what is the difference between the first couple of registry keys that the Easy Fix does add and the ones for Schannel that it does not add? I am reasonably tech savvy, but this goes (way) over my head. What would I not be able to do if I have not set the Schannel registry keys?

A couple of months ago after an internet search I had already installed the Easy Fix when I was not able to use the Media Creation Tool for Win10 on my Win7 system. After installing it the MCT worked again, even though I had not added the second set of registry entries.

I do not use an Exchange server, but I would like my Win7 system to be fully capable of using TLS 1.1 and 1.2 to avoid any issues that might pop up in the future.

Thanks in advance.

The issues with Windows Media Center introduced in the July cumulative update (KB5015861) have not been solved for Windows 7 in the CU for August (KB5016676). I presume that goes for Windows 8.1 too.
https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/ms-defcon-4-july-updates-make-some-hot-and-bothered/#post-2465862