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Susan Bradley wrote:

While I have not looked at it personally, I know people that have. There are comments and documentation. There is also 30 years of legacy products that Microsoft has to interact with.

On the one hand we complain that Microsoft should pull a page out of Apple and throw out all of the legacy code.

On the other hand we are still running Windows media Center. Windows Essential servers/Small Business Server code and various other platforms and want them to still be supported and still work.

We really can’t have both at the same time.

If Microsoft released a version of Windows with no backwards compatibility, I wouldn’t use it. It would be Windows RT all over again. Why use Windows and put up with all of its flaws if you don’t have the backing of a massive software library?

If nothing is pinned to the Start menu, you won’t see it. It will appear as soon as you pin at least one item.

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Windows RE hasn’t been updated since 2004, this is probably because all builds since then share the same codebase. Take boot.wim from a 21H2 ISO and it’s still build 19041 (2004).

Do you have the correct video driver installed?

This works OK for now (it’s how I’ve done it from day one) but everything I’ve read suggests that 22H2 won’t allow it.

I had to do a P2V of a Server 2003 system a couple of years ago (internet access blocked on the firewall of course). The client had a very old version of Great Plains that they wanted to keep using. I was able to reactivate it using the self-service URL on my phone, which was a surprise.

Not true anymore, you can use mbr2gpt.exe from the Windows Recovery Environment to do the conversion. I’ve done it several times.

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No third-party VPN client. I was able to replicate the issue myself with vanilla Windows 11. Connecting to the VPN and running ‘net use’ on a file share was enough to lock up the VM hosting RAS. It is configured as a NAT router and from the Bleeping Computer article it seems that has a bearing on whether you’re affected or not.

I came back from a two week break to find that one of our clients was having VPN issues. They have a Server 2022 VM running RAS for SSTP access. The problem was that when someone connected to the VPN, the entire VM would stop responding shortly afterwards and need a hard reset. Uninstalling KB5014678 works around the issue and gets it working again. I can’t find anything online to suggest if this is an issue, although I wouldn’t imagine that many people are using RAS on Server 2022.

Two things would point me towards a RAM issue – the PFN_LIST_CORRUPT error is very often bad RAM, as well as the random assortment of errors that you’re getting.

Visit https://config.office.com/ to create the XML file. It may look like you need to sign in but you don’t have to; just scroll down and click the Create button.

Once you have the file, you’ll need to run the setup tool and specify the path to the XML file; usually setup.exe /configure c:\path\to\file.xml (change as necessary).

I actually wrote a simple tool in VB.NET to simplify this, should really put it on Github for times like this.

If you want your batch file to prompt for the drive letter like you asked, you can do it this way.

set /p dl=”Enter drive letter: ”

You’d then replace the drive letter in your commands with the variable name %dl% – e.g.

robocopy c:\source %dl%:\target /e

The solutions above might be better though.

Surely the latency would make this pointless? It’s bad enough from satellites in geostationary orbit at 36,000km, let alone at the moon’s altitude!

The HP Hotkey Support driver was always something I was curious to learn about; specifically why it’s needed and what it does. If you boot a HP laptop into a flavour of Linux, the hotkeys work perfectly and report different scan codes to Windows. On my laptop at least, installing the hotkey driver in Windows installs a filter driver on the keyboard (HpqKbFiltr.sys), which makes a change in the embedded controller. The hotkeys then stop working in Linux. Pressing the brightness keys just triggers the microphone mute switch from then on. The only way around that is to do an EC reset (hold the power button for about 10 seconds).

I wonder if Windows doesn’t support the full set of scan codes and they need an additional filter driver or something?

I’ve found this site to be quite civilised compared to some forums I’ve been on. I won’t go into too much detail as it’s off-topic for here but I found members of a particular Irish forum to be quite aggressive at times.

I agree with OscarCP that people can be a bit cranky here but I think a lot of that is frustration with where the IT world is going, especially Microsoft. So I totally get it because that has been me at times too.

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