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The cause is that domain names (DNS) are not resolved, the cause of this failure Idk for sure; I have experienced several DNS errors like your using win 10. Now if the root cause is the modem, windows 10 or something else I cannot tell, as you know win10 is a black box, who knows what's goning on ...
An example of this kind of issue:
How to get back online after a Windows 10 update breaks your internet access | Windows Central
It is interesting that Windows To Go is a deprecated feature now. In part explanation beliw is true i.e. updates but the statement anout types of usb drive is basically hogwash as you could use any usb drive now as windows now supports multiple partitions on a flash drive (needed for UEFI). The constraint to "fixed drive" flash drives is purely artificial now.
Windows To Go — Windows To Go is no longer being developed. The feature does not support feature updates and therefore does not enable you to stay current. It also requires a specific type of USB that is no longer supported by many OEMs
Hi,
I'm running Windows To Go on a usb stick with W10 1903 and it updates just fine.Windows To Go — Windows To Go is no longer being developed. The feature does not support feature updates and therefore does not enable you to stay current. It also requires a specific type of USB that is no longer supported by many OEMs
You can run it on any reasonably fast USB stick nowadays.
I ran it first time on a Muskin Ventura Ultra UAS drive which was a pretty daft design. Heat killed it after two years of use. Pretty much predictable as it used a heat dissipating paste to transfer heat to the casing which dries up after a couple of years.
Too bad they're dropping it, I think it's a great thingie to have.
What annoys me even more is that W10 treats anything USB or even stuff connected internally on a adaptor as a HDD. Be that a SSD in a USB case or a Sata case using two SSD M2 modules connected to a SATA port.
Cheers,
You get normal updates but you cannot do a build upgrade - that is what MS are talking about.
Killing it is not that big a deal as you can create a bootable usb drive with full windows on it using Rufus.
You used to be able to use winusb free to (easily) do it but sadly they now charge you to do it from build 1809 onwards.
I have tested Rufus on 1903 and it works fine for a UEFI installation.
Note: a bootable flash drive with full windows is not true Windows To Go which is designed to handle usb drive becoming detached briefly whereas pc would crash, possibly corrupting installation on a simple boot flash drive.
You have to be a bit more careful about accidentally ejecting usb drive and properly ejecting it.
Hi Folks
Cables / Fibre -- who needs it -- Dinosaur technology these days - 5G!!! --faster, no cables needed etc etc
The trouble with major infrastructure that requires a great deal of building construction --e.g digging up streets etc for providing cables and those unsightly things that stick up into the sky to provide optical technology is that they are out of date and redundant almost before people have finished constructing them.
5G broadband (never mind just the phone part of it) can provide speeds of almost 1Tb/s currently and will certainly improve -- that's the way forward - at least in Urban areas. Easier maintenance too as the streets don't need to be dug up to repair cables etc etc.
This would be particularly important I suppose in places like Los Angeles where the Earth is always moving around a bit anyway.
BTW it's still simple to make a Windows2Go via all sorts of methods --use Macrium fix windows boot problems after creating the windows partitions etc.
Personally though I find with nice fast USB3/3.1 and SSD's it's much easier to create a small Linux bootable host on the external SSD and then create a Windows VM on it - performance is usually perfectly good especially on USB3/3.1 connection and you don't have to worry about activation problems when booting up the VM on different machines (on VMWare simply check the I Moved it box rather than the I Copied it box on first boot on a new machine --then the same machine guuid is used and activation remains - To me that's the most convenient and flexible Windows to Go system !!!
What I tend to use this "portable Windows system" for is for alternate versions of Office, different browser / email systems and a few local programs when I need them without having to touch anything on the main laptop.
Cheers
jimbo