Windows XP Activation

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We have had a few requests from visitors to our site asking how they an activate Windows XP. Well, the simple answer is, you can’t and you should upgrade to Windows 10. However, saying you can’t is not quite right… As most of you will already know, Microsoft have ended support for Windows XP some … Read more

Inject Windows Updates into WIM Image Files Using PowerShell

Inject Windows Updates into WIM Image Files Using PowerShell

To inject Windows Updates into custom-built images that you are using in your Configuration Manager OSD environment, you may find that keeping them up to date is a real problem. If you are happy with the image itself and do not want to make any changes to it, why should you need to rebuild and … Read more

Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) v1.2 for Windows 10 Released – Full Download and Installation Guide

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Microsoft have released the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 version 1.2. There does not seem to be much information on what is updated in version 1.2 and we have installed it and cannot find any differences either, maybe just some security flaws fixed. You may also notice that DHCP is not included, but you … Read more

Windows 10 Installation Error – Something Happened….

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If you are installing or upgrading to Windows 10, you may have come across this annoying useless error “Something went wrong” or “Something Happened…”. Helpful Microsoft, thanks for the information. But what does it mean? Well, to be honest, it could mean anything depending on what you are doing on your machine, but we recently found … Read more

SCCM – Windows 10 Sysprep Capture Errors

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So today we built a new custom Windows 10 image on a virtual machine and created our new SCCM capture media from the very latest version and every single time we ran the capture it failed at the Sysprep step. Infuriated by this as we have done captures hundreds of times, we started the annoying method … Read more