Thank you Bree and hsehestedt! Your response are greatly appreciated.

Thank you hsehestedt! I guess the original key must have been imbedded somewhere then, because the activation completed. I believe I upgraded the laptop from 8.1 to 10 back when 10 was being...

Thanks for your response Brink! It did activate however. Or at least it said it did. It appeared to remain activated after a restart. This is a really old Toshiba laptop with a spinning disk HD....

Like the IT helpdesk idiot that I am, working on a colleague's Windows 10 Home laptop, I quickly Googled, then TOO quickly ran the first two slmgr commands I found, /upk and /cpky!! What a dunce! I...

My normal practice is to set the default apps I want all users to have, then use dism commands to collect and apply them to the image. The errors appear for a new user, but the default apps I...

Oh that's good to know, thank you for the speedy reply. I should have noticed CURRENT USER in the code.

Are you aware of any other fixes that would modify the default user, so that new users...

I'm building an image for classroom computers that will be logged into by many domain members. Hoping to eliminate the stream of "default app reset" messages for each new user.

Will this .reg...

Again Brink, thank you so much. I will try the dism commands.

Thank you Brink, for the welcome and the response. Don't know what took me so long to join, have been using the site for years. You put out an amazing amount of useful stuff- thank you!

I'm the...

I am setting up lab machines with LTSC 2019 1809 (Build 17763.652) and when I create a new test user, Photo Viewer is available, but not pre-selected as the default jpeg handler. The files still open...