It works great on my old vostro 1700 from 2008 I have tweaked it with the script for GPD + disable Windows Defender ! Btw I have used a cloned virtual machine ( no tpm, no uefi on this really old CPU )
Even if Windows update won't, updating from ISO should work. In any event, I only installed in Hyper-V and used a throwaway MS account.
The MSA termination thing is not true. I would expect they would for example show a screenshot or something like that... But there's nothing,
Have you checked defender is disabled in this 21996 build. Powershell -Command "Get-MpPreference" is disabledatagramprocessing & 4 more set to true . here at my side even forcefully using ti rights resulted in false after every reboot.
Thank you very much for your quick reply. I have some of those "SynchronousCommand" entries in there, and I'm also doing some off-line registry mods after applying the setup files (but, like I said before, before the first reboot that starts setup). I'll need some more research to figure out the Defender stuff, thanks again for pointing me in the right direction. I will check out your toolkit (again) for more "inspiration" as well. Clicking on the top link in your sig does not work, but I know where to find it
You can remove packages Windows-Defender-AM-Default-Definitions-* form the wim before install. This way only definitions are gone. Defender works but will not detect any threads. As soon as you are connected to the internet newest definitions will be auto-downloaded and Defender will be fully functional.
@ivankehayov That's a great tip! Until recently, I did usually remove these from the .wim Code: Windows-Defender Microsoft-Windows-OneDrive Microsoft-OneCore-AllowTelemetry-Reduced-Default-Package Microsoft-OneCore-TroubleShooting-Package Microsoft-Windows-Search2-base-Package Microsoft-Windows-Search2-Package Microsoft-Windows-Cortana-Package Microsoft-Windows-Cortana-PAL-Desktop-Package ...but never from a preview for testing. Do you know if removing these packages is still useful or if there are others to add? But again: Your tip about removing only the Definitions-* files is a great idea!!!!