#troubleshooting Windows

[suraudotco]

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[lavoszero]

I need to be going to sleep but my spite for Windows and its automatic updates/forcing people to upgrade to Windows 11 without their OK makes me need to spread the word on how to stop that crap

Open Start.

Search for regedit and click the top result to launch the Registry Editor.

Navigate to the following path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows

Right-click the Windows (folder) key, select the New submenu, and choose the Key option.

Name the new key WindowsUpdate and press Enter.

Right-click the newly created key, select the New submenu, and choose the Key option.

Name the new key AU and press Enter.

Right-click the AU key, select the New submenu, and choose the DWORD (32-bit) Value option.

Name the new key NoAutoUpdate and press Enter.

Double-click the newly created key and change its value from 0 to 1.

Click the OK button.

Restart the computer.

After you complete the steps, automatic updates will be permanently disabled on the device. However, you can still download updates by clicking the "Check for updates" button on the Windows Update settings page.

If you want to undo the changes, you can use the same instructions outlined above, but on step 4, right-click the WindowsUpdate key, select the "Delete" option, then reboot the computer to apply the settings.

If you want picture steps you can see so here (its the place where I learned to do this anyways)

[torchickentacos]

me after my mom called and said 'hey I found this old canon eos 400D with a bunch of lenses if you're interested'

[starmocha]

me: why doesn't this work 🙄

also me: *did not read the instruction manual*

[techav]

On Boot Failures

Headlines everywhere on Friday, the 19th of July, 2024 were about the massive computer outages caused by a faulty update to the CrowdStrike antivirus software. It seems some config file choked up a kernel module causing Windows machines to fail with the infamous Blue Screen of Death.

I recently started a new job and was perhaps a little smug in the fact that in my new job I am no longer responsible for hundreds of endpoints running CrowdStrike.

Karma's a bitch though.

I shut down my home PC Friday night to install a memory upgrade and after powering it back on I was met with the very same Blue Screen of Death.

"A critical process died" it told me, with no information about what said process actually was.

And no log files.

And no dump files.

System Restore failed. sfc /scannow failed. dism /cleanup-image failed. Everything I could find failed. I couldn't even just reinstall Windows over the existing installation because apparently that requires being already booted into the OS that currently isn't running.

The log files from dism led me to believe the problem might be related to registry corruption, but my attempts at replacing system registry files with clean ones from an install wim were not successful.

I was grasping at straws. Starting from scratch with a clean install is daunting and would have set me back weeks. I was contemplating pulling out an old SSD and just running with Linux Mint for a while.

Through desperation, I downloaded Hiren's BootCD PE so I could poke around a little more. None of the tools included there were able to resolve the issue either, but just having access to a standard Explorer shell and a web browser helped.

Finally I came across ShadowCopyView, a program that can explore the System Restore images that Windows (can) take regularly. In one last desperate effort, I moved out all of the system registry files from C:\Windows\System32\config and used ShadowCopyView to replace them with copies from an automatic restore point the previous Monday.

That actually did the trick. I was able to reboot into my primary Windows partition and sign in like normal.

I have no idea what may have been lost in a few days of registry updates, and I have no idea what may have caused the problem to begin with. But I am happy I was able to find something in the end that would get me back into my system without having to reinstall everything from scratch.

... Although maybe I should anyway.

And should anyone encounter something similar in the future, these were the kind of errors I was seeing that a Google search wasn't really coming up with anything useful:

dism.log: failed to open registry root

dism.log: failed to query for path to user profiles directory

dism.log: failed to load the default user profile registry hive

dism.log: failed to load offline store from boot directory

srttrail.txt: pending package install

strtrail.txt: boot manager generic failure

[alarici]

i literally just cleared cache and stuff & things

[pirefyrelight]

in my research for what the hell Linux is in an effort to switch to it, I've watched a few "What your distro says about you" knowing that they're only partly joking probably.

Anyway I'm waiting for "Mint: you're scared of the command line but you're more scared of windows recall"

[bonestrouslingbones]

crawls away from my keyboard covered in blood and pissed off but satisfied at the fact that i finally enabled windows firewall

[all-hail-trudos]

I'm two seconds away from nuking my file system altogether and reinstalling Kubuntu, or just throwing in the towel and going back to Windows with my tail between my legs.

Can't get past the login screen. Put in password, everything freezes. Try logging in through recovery mode, get past login screen but now I get a black screen and a mouse cursor.

Systemctl says my page file didn't load but I can't tell if I should trust that because I'm only able to access my console through recovery mode. Also I've officially run out of spoons to deal with this.

Windows never did this shit to me. I've been enjoying Linux, but when it fails, IT FAILS.

[track-maniac]

sfc /scannow worked????

[miodiodavinci]

Did you make Salvador with OpenUTAU in mind? Whenever i try to use his voicebank in og UTAU it doesnt make any noise.

i made him with UTAU-Synth in mind, unfortunately ;; _ ;; standard windows UTAU suddenly stopped working for me several years ago (see: everything works fine until i hit play, whereupon it pops up the render window, renders everything, closes the render window, and does nothing. no playhead, no sound, no scrolling. yet somehow i can still export full renders) so i'd been leaning heavy on UTAU-Synth in the meantime

when i put together salvador, i hadn't yet made the jump to using OpenUTAU and vLabeler either, so he's kind of in a weird limbo where i did my best to make sure he'd work in all three versions, but i had no real way of testing to make sure he did ;; _ ;;

[steviewashere]

I miss the sims 2 :(

[dullahandyke]

Peering at my laptop on my desk to see what's going on bcos bubbles is on my bed cuddling into my arm

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

there should be one day a year where we just go open season on all software engineers wild hunt style. just to keep them humble

[antirepurp]

my art gallery page's responsiveness isn't perfect but if you happen to use a screen that falls into a Very particular range of widths somewhere on the smaller side between the 720px-1280px ratio then im sorry but i've done everything i can and the image containers jumping out of their designated rows is at that point on you

[vaporevon]

the fact that computers can just randomly forget they have wifi/bluetooth adapters IN them is insane to me. like why did my ancient laptop just try to tell me it didn’t have bluetooth capability. bitch i was just typing on you with a bluetooth keyboard this morning which one of us is senile