If anyone needs free Blu-ray support on this new OS I found Leawo Blu-ray player works perfectly. Its now free for all on there company site.
As someone that compiled a custom signed grub2 EFI (with ntfs) in Ubuntu for use on my USBs, i had to have secure boot enabled when i installed Ubuntu or else i could not sign my EFI files with secure boot. It dual booted with windows fine with secure mode enabled. There is a caveat though; i use refind as a bootloader (because i actually have a triple boot with Hackintosh), and it displays 2 choices of Ubuntu kernel to boot, signed or unsigned. If i didn't use refind, i would have Grub2 as the primary bootloader that would chainload the BCD, not the other way around.
It is most likely different from what the person in question want to do. Using a customized grub2 EFI is totally different from deploying Ubuntu on a pre-installed Windows system. The fact that you have to use a Refind Boot Manager says it all. I have seen that Refind Boot Manager before but I have not taken the time to look into it. Usually, if you have more than one Kernels of Ubuntu it is possibly you have upgraded the OS in the past. I think somebody without much idea of EFI and Ubuntu would rather disable the Secure boot for seamless installation as an easy way out.
This might be old news to some, but I just read about it, and was thinking it might come in handy for some people. Here is a copy paste of the information: "Yes, I installed a UEFI upgrade of 8.1-10TP in-place right from the mounted .ISO in an 8.1 boot. Worked flawlessly. Then, just to try out a theory, I did it again, only this time it was a 10TP-10TP in-place *reinstall* right from the 10TP mounted .ISO... I wanted to confirm that I could do a "repair reinstall" of Win10 just like it works in Win8.1, and it works! No need for "Refresh" since the in-place "reinstall" preserves all of your personal files, programs & settings, unlike Refresh (but exactly like an in-place upgrade.) The end result here is exactly what happens in WinXP when you do a "repair reinstall," except you don't need to boot from the install media like we had to in XP to do a repair reinstall. It's a terrific feature of both 8.1 & 10TP, and Microsoft should be more forthcoming about the "other use" for running an in-place upgrade right from the target boot . IMO, "refresh or reset" should only be used when your Windows install is so broken that an in-place reinstall of the OS just won't work." To me, that's a VERY handy bit of information to know. It could save hours of work...... Chaser
Using this in autounattend.xml will make the Start Screen to be default in PC environment Code: <ShowPowerButtonOnStartScreen>true</ShowPowerButtonOnStartScreen> oobeSystem pass, Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup component
Is that what Cloud Experience Host is all about? I would be interested to see your Cloud Experience Host in conjunction with what you've just explained image posted here. Thank you.
I don't know but this reg key is responsible of Start Menu: Code: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "EnableStartMenu"=dword:00000000
Yes, that is what I wished to see. However, I am also interested in the information behind it. Seriously, I have no single idea of the uses and usefulness to Windows 10 Technical Preview. One thing I have noticed about it is that it often comes and goes.
I have ran SFC /scannow and it works here for me.... takes a bit of time, but it does work... run as admin and it among other things it does add the watermark back...it adds back all my other modifications. portions of the log: Code: 2014-10-01 14:41:31, Info CBS TiWorker starts successfully. 2014-10-01 14:41:33, Info CBS Universal Time is: 2014-10-01 21:41:33.168 2014-10-01 14:41:34, Info CBS Loaded Servicing Stack v6.4.9841.0 with Core: C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-servicingstack_31bf3856ad364e35_6.4.9841.0_none_f09cf3a80d6773e8\cbscore.dll 2014-10-01 14:41:36, Info CSI 00000001@2014/10/1:21:41:36.090 WcpInitialize (wcp.dll version 0.0.0.6) called (stack @0x7ffda3fc8a69 @0x7ffda4928bf5 @0x7ffda4925531 @0x7ff7e0fe2af6 @0x7ff7e0fe39cb @0x7ffda9d9acc3) 2014-10-01 14:41:38, Info CBS SQM: Initializing online with Windows opt-in: True 2014-10-01 14:41:38, Info CBS SQM: Cleaning up report files older than 10 days. final Code: 2014-10-12 16:52:25, Info CBS Startup processing complete, Trusted Installer will now wait around for a little while to see if any clients show up. 2014-10-12 16:52:25, Info CBS Startup processing thread terminated normally 2014-10-12 16:52:25, Info CBS TiWorker signaled for shutdown, going to exit. 2014-10-12 16:52:25, Info CBS Ending the TiWorker main loop. 2014-10-12 16:52:25, Info CBS Starting TiWorker finalization. 2014-10-12 16:52:25, Info CBS Ending TiWorker finalization. 2014-10-12 16:54:25, Info CBS Trusted Installer is shutting down because: SHUTDOWN_REASON_AUTOSTOP 2014-10-12 16:54:25, Info CBS Ending the TrustedInstaller main loop. 2014-10-12 16:54:25, Info CBS Starting TrustedInstaller finalization. 2014-10-12 16:54:25, Info CBS Winlogon: Stopping notify server 2014-10-12 16:54:25, Info CBS Winlogon: Unloading SysNotify DLL 2014-10-12 16:54:25, Info CBS Ending TrustedInstaller finalization. PS: This is Windows 10 Professional default Install of ISO from Insider... NOT HACKED but simply Modified.