Microsoft Windows 10
Fresh install of Windows 10 22H2 on a Lenovo T14 Gen 4 notebook. Inside Windows, the built-in keyboard doesn’t work nor does any external keyboard. Keyboards work fine in BIOS and during post. Windows Device Manager shows the error: Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in…
Resolve Windows activation error code 0xC004E015.
Open RegEdit and navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU folder. DoubleClick on UseWUServer(UseWindowsUpdateServer) and change the value to 0. Restart the Windows Update service. Now open the appwiz.cpl and add the dotNET 3.5 feature using Microsoft Update as source.
Before running SYSPREP set the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\Sysprep\Settings\sppnp Create new DWORD with name “PersistAllDeviceInstalls” and set value to 1.
A quick tip to manually backup installed drivers on a Windows computer. Copy the following directories to a secondary drive (USB, etc.): – %systemroot%\System32\DriverStore\ – %systemroot%\System32\Drivers\ – %systemroot%\System32\DrvStore\ *not all installations will have this directory* – %systemroot%\inf\
Run the following command from the Windows command prompt. wmic path softwarelicensingservice get oa3xoriginalproductkey
This is a very simple process to setup a scheduled task to restart your system. This process will work with Windows Server 2012R2/2012/2008R2/2008/2003. In the procedure we will use the Task Scheduler to run the shutdown.exe command. For a list of possible arguments for this command, visit the Microsoft TechNet…