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Factory Reset Windows 10 without user intervention
I've looked for this answer online and have come across the "systemreset -factoryreset" command which works, but it comes up with the prompt asking if I want to keep my files or remove everything, I want to remove everything, but without the prompt. We are not doing this from any pre-exiting images, and our laptops are running the pre-loaded Windows 10 Pro install, we are just using the in-built Windows 10 "reset this PC" feature as we have no MDM configured. We just want the laptops to be totally reset so they don't contain any company information, we're not bothered about completing the OOBE once they are wiped. We are trying to accomplish this remotely as our users are all at home, so I need to automate it and have no user involvement in the process, I just want it to factory reset, and bring the laptop up to the off-the-shelf state configuration. We have the facility to push commands and scripts to the laptops so was hoping to do this via powershell. Does anyone know if this is possible? Thanks
Recommended hardware requirement for Server 2019, Visual Comunnity 2022, SQL 2019 Express on same PC
Hi! On the site microsoft I found : Windows Server 2019 MINIMUM hardware requirements Processor:single core, 2Gb RAM: 1 Gb Visual studio comunity 2022 RECOMENDED hardware requirements(microsoft site) Processor:quad core, 2 Gb RAM: 16 Gb SQL Express 2019 RECOMENDED hardware requirements(microsoft site) Processor:single core, 2Gb RAM: 1 Gb but if on the same PCI have installed: 1)Windows Server 2019 2)Visual Studio Commnunity 2022 3)SQL Server 2019 express in THIS CASE what is RECOMMENDED(not minimum) hardware requirements? Thanks!
Dual Boot Windows 7 and Windows 10 from separate drives?
Seems like an age old question but it seems like I am close. I would like to get a boot option menu on reboot and choose from two different Windows (7 & 10) on two different drives. I have Windows 7 32bit on my D drive and Windows 10 64bit on my C: drive. I was led to believe I could add it with this command: bcdboot d:\windows /d /addlast However I am getting a "Failure when attempting to copy boot files" error. I am a little worried about experimenting as I could destroy my boot block on my windows 7 drive. I guess worse case I can change the boot order in the BIOS but it would be nice to do that with a boot menu. Some of the windows 10 boot tutorials seemed to lead me to believe this option would be detected but I am gathering it would have happened if it was done on all the same drive.BTW these are SATA drives.
systemreset.exe command line options
I'm doing a lot of testing with Windows autopilot. Is there a method to reset the machine solely from the command line using the systemreset.exe tool? I cannot find any documentation for the switches it supports. My goal it to do a full reset of the device but via a script rather than clicking through the UI options. I ran the sysinternals tools 'strings' against it and I see some options like -factoryreset which do work but I'd like to get a full listing/reference.Enterprise LTSC 2019 answer files
Hello Friends, Has anyone successfully created an unattend or autounattend answer file for the LTSC 2019 version of Windows 10 Enterprise? If so, would you be willing to share it? If not, is anyone else trying to do this? Are there any step by step walkthroughs available yet- where are they? I have a project before me to create an image for cloning to 80 new computers, and creating an uncluttered desktop is the goal for my end users. LTSB proved helpful in this respect, despite all the warnings against using it. We are a small company and do not use SCCM. I'm an old-fashioned manual desktop kind of person (dinosaur). Thanks in advance, David
