Thank you dalchina, I'll give this approach a try.

OOOPS, I'l move over to the Windows 11 site. However, I am running Windows 11 Pro and I am using a standard administrator account - not the built-in one.

I've returned from a two week vacation and no magic genie came to fix my problem. I've checked the policy setting mentioned by dalchina and it is 'not configured', so onto a different attempt. One...

On one of my 3 Windows 11 systems, I continue to be unable to run any of the Microsoft Store apps such as notepad, scan, calc, etc., including the Store app itself and instead get the following...

Basically, I added/created users on each PC to reflect the exact user population on the network. So, since I have 4 PCs, I added three additional users on each of the 4 PCs, with the Ids/pswds that...

I had the same problem with all of my 4 PCs which are on version 20H2. I went through the litany of making sure that all of my PCs were in the same workgroup, checked to make sure that network...

I have Outlook 2016 installed on my current system, however I have moved the PST file to another drive. In order to create a 'viable' custom installation ISO, you are saying that the PST file would...

Thank you for your help and patience.

Ok, I should've been more clear. I mount the installation ISO. I then copy all of the files/folders to a harddrive. I then delete the install.esd/wim in the sources folder located physically on the...

Not interested in doing that. I want to create a Windows installation USB containing a 'custom' install.wim file which is larger than 4GB. There is a tutorial on how to do that but I can't remember...

So, I am capturing my current running system, including my installed applications, using DISM (Dism /capture-image /capturedir:C:\ /imagefile:D\ESDtoWIM\install.wim ..... The process goes like this...

Kari wrote - "Capturing install.wim from an existing installation only works on computers / virtual machines where all system elements and user accounts are located on Windows system partition C:" -...

"Capturing install.wim from an existing installation only works on computers / virtual machines where all system elements and user accounts are located on Windows system partition C:." - can someone...

I did look at the article and went through the so-called diagnostic steps outlined. Unfortunately, the pieces of information that I wanted were nowhere to be found. I don't know what error code 5...

One additional point/question - regarding eventid 1125. When I looked at the detail for the log entry, the error code (which is 5) and the error condition (which is 'access denied') appears. Also, ...

I'm not using the Windows built-in Fax/Scan utilities.
I had the Scan program from the Microsoft store installed. It actually worked until Verizon replaced their Cable/Modem in my house, with a...

When I try to 'Get' the Scan app (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-scan/9wzdncrfj3pv?activetab=pivot:overviewtab), I receive the following message - "This app has been blocked by your system...

Ya, I thought so. Thanks for the reply

I have a Supermicro C7Q67 motherboard with 2 HDDs and 24GB Ram. I decided to find some hardware component(s) to improve the overall performance of this system. After some looking, I decided on a...

My diatribe was more than I wanted, however I have always found the documentation on Bios/Uefi Settings less than helpful.

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Thank you for your reply. I am inserting the...

First, I want to thank you guys for your recommendations. Being the impatient person that I am, I started to experiment with the APTIO Bios setup utility and was able to 'cleanup' the two 'useless'...

Msconfig indicates just one boot loader.

291485 Interestingly enough, I have replaced the windows disk twice, which could result in the Bios maintaining a sort of history that resulted in the three 'Windows boot Manager' entries. I did run...

291422291423 Thanks for the reply. I've attached 2 Jpegs depicting the boot options section of the Bios setup utility (I hope they are readable). What bothers me is that there are 3 Windows Boot...

Supermicro MB (C7Q67), 8GB Ram, I7 2600 CPU, 1 SSD, 2 2TB HDDs, Windows 2004. I'm looking for recommendations on what to do about the BIOS settings regarding the boot option entries listed in my 3...