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Obtaining Windows 10 update to install over Windows 7
I have a business grade HP machine still running Windows 7 that came with the machine. I want to update it now to Windows 10. The main link on the MS site for downloading the Update (22H2 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10) is giving me an error on both my desktop and laptop machines when I go to launch the exe it downloads: "Windows10Upgrade9252.exe is not a valid Win32 application." If I download the "Create installation media" file, will that give me the same option to "update over Windows 7" the exact same way the Update link would (if it was working properly, that is)?
CoPilot sidebar in Edge "Attempting to reconnect..."
I have 3 Microsoft accounts, a personal Hotmail account, and two Work accounts that are O365. Each of them is setup in my Edge browser as a separate profile, logged in and syncing settings. In my personal account, the CoPilot sidebar works fine and always has. In my first work profile, the CoPilot sidebar has always had this issue of 'Attempting to reconnect...'. The only way I've found to fix it, is to delete the BFB cookie from the cache for Bing.com, then refresh the CoPilot sidebar, at which point I'm prompted to sign in to the CoPilot sidebar, and it works for a while, but by the next day, the issue is back. My second work profile is actually new. And CoPilot worked for the first day, but then the next day I went to use it, the issue was present and has been the same as my first work profile since. I'm wondering if anyone has come across a more permanent solution that maybe I missed. Or if you can link to a feedback submission I can vote on.
Windows 10: IME freezing
Hi Everyone, In my office, January 6 was the first day back to work from the winter holiday. Multiple "Windows 10 over Citrix" users in our Japan office reported that the Windows Japanese Input Method Editor (IME) was freezing. This freezing does not occur when typing with English keyboard input, but only occurs after switching to Japanese IME. A Windows restart may fix the issue, but the issue returned for some users. Not every user experiences the issue, so it is inconsistent. A similar issue on Windows 8 with the same symptoms had occurred in the past: IME freezes for a while when you input text in Windows - Microsoft Support Has anyone encountered a similar issue recently? Could a recent Windows update have caused this issue?
Transfer Windows 10 Pro upgraded license
In the distant past I bought a laptop pre-installed with Windows 10 Home. In early January 2020 I upgraded the installation to Windows 10 Pro by purchasing the license through the MS Store on the machine. I was hoping to upgrade the laptop to Windows 11 but it's not able to install that OS for a number of reasons, so I am looking to move the license to some hardware that will support Windows 11. I followed steps for retrieving product keys, removing product keys from the old latptop and adding the key to the new hardware (which is freshly installed with Windows 10 Pro) but activation fails on the hardware. The new hardware reports that it cannot activate as I have Pro installed but only a digital license for Home was found. Despite having seemingly removed all traces of the old laptop from my microsoft account and having removed all installed product keys from the device, if I start the laptop up again it will eventually successfully activate with a Windows 10 Pro digital license attached to my account. So I am guessing somehow the laptop is still associated with the Pro license (serial number?). Running "slmgr /dli" on the laptop shows the key as RETAIL (not OEM) so I am assuming what I am trying to do is valid? Is there anything else I can try or is calling the activation line the only way forward?
Windows Defender Firewall occasionally becoming enabled despite group policy disabling it
Hello, I have some workstations which will occasionally enable the Windows Defender Firewall despite having group policy disable it. This is happening both on Windows 10 1803 and Windows 10 1909. Here's some settings from one workstation in particular that I'm troubleshooting in detail this morning: The group policy is taking effect in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile - EnableFirewall = 0 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\StandardProfile - EnableFirewall = 0 And I can see the policy in a gpresult: (copy/pasted from a gpresult /h html file) Windows Defender Firewall: Protect all network connections Disabled So as you can see, the firewall is definitely configured to be Disabled. Most of the time, the firewall is indeed disabled and things like RDP work just fine. However sometimes the firewall becomes enabled and the user can't RDP to their PC. I'm guessing when the PC boots up it sometimes ignores the registry setting and the firewall becomes enabled anyways. I've verified that the firewall is running and active/enabled by two different methods: First, a powershell command "Get-NetFirewallProfile -PolicyStore ActiveStore" reports for each of the profiles Domain, Private and Public, that the property "Enabled" is "True". Second, I enabled firewall logging on a workstation using a remote command: netsh advfirewall set allprofiles logging droppedconnections enable Then I checked the log and found my dropped RDP packets to TCP port 3389: Get-Content '\\pcname\c$\windows\system32\LogFiles\Firewall\pfirewall.log' 2020-11-12 <time> DROP TCP <source IP> <destination IP> <source port> 3389 52 S 2774183116 0 64240 - - - RECEIVE If the firewall was disabled as intended then it would not be dropping any packets, contrary to what's shown above. When I reboot the PC, it will act normally and disable the firewall... for a while. The user will report it again in a number of days. This is happening on numerous PCs in the domain and intermittently prevents users from working remotely until someone onsite locates and reboots their workstation. Does anyone have any ideas why the Windows Defender Firewall becomes enabled/active despite group policy being configured to disable it? Is it a bug in the firewall code, resulting in it occasionally ignoring the group policy setting? Thanks!
File Explorer Opens but Folders Take a Long Time to Open
When I open File Explorer (Windows 10), it opens quickly. However, if I try to open a document or right-click it, or if my cursor happens to hover over a different document, it hangs up but will eventually open after several minutes pass. I've run disk cleanup/defragment, restarted, but no change. Everything else on the computer works fine, and there is plenty of memory (1.69 TB). I'm running Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019. Would appreciate any suggestions! Thanks!
How to transfer Windows 10 to new computer with everything untouched
Hi, I have a Windows 10 PC with more than 10 years and I am going to get it retired as I build a new PC now with modern hardware, including the latest Intel i7 CPU, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD and Geforce 4060 graphics card. Before moving forward, how can I transfer Windows 10 to new computer (probable the latest Windows 11) with everything being moved, including the license key, programs and user files. I can stick to Windows 10 if it gets easier to do than Windows 11. If you knew how to do this, please share your knowledge about this!
