To enter audit mode at the OOBE stage is CTRL+SHIFT+F3 On a running system open an elevated cmd and type "cd sysprep" press enter and type "sysprep.exe /audit /reboot" press enter, and the system will reboot into audit mode. SHIFT+F10 will only open a cmd screen.
I never said shift f10. i said use shift, control, and F3 at the start of the "Out Of Box Environment". I'm not "confusing" anything.
It's not you who confuses something, it's the one who started the thread(s), i hit reply by accident and corrected it.
YATTA - SUCCESS! I didn't know that one could access directories to which you could not switch to using "cd" command. The letter was G and yet "cd G:\" would not work, but "G:\bla-bla\.bla.exe" worked. Again, how was I supposed to know that directories inaccessible via "CD" command are actually accessible??? Anyway, I just made an image of my butchered OS, so now I can go ahead and install the "perfect" OS and do all that.
SysPrep OOBE Generalize Shutdown takes forever it seems. I have not applied any tweaks, just cleaned the OS and it has not frozen, just keeps on processing for almost 30 minutes now. Last time it took less than a minute... Any way to know if its actually working and not stuck in some loop? Event Log is filled with DeviceManagement Enterprise Diagnostic Provider errors every second... it cannot find file specified... WTH...
It worked - no errors of any kind upon first OS boot - not with SFC, not with DISM, not within registry. OS All is clean, although I am still not exactly sure what it is that I accomplished...
I used Ctrl+Shift+F3 right when the first keyboard-layout question was presented during setup. It then took me directly to Windows as Administrator and the SysPrep OOBE window was already opened. I hope that is what was supposed to happen.
OOBE = when the first personalization questions get asked after the install ran, it's all in this thread by @s1ave77: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...etupcomplete-firstlogon-silent-install.73131/
I thought the Audit Mode is supposed to log me in as Default User, not as Administrator... I was also trying to remove the tile left-overs from MSMG Toolkit - the ones for Store. However, removing them and doing SysPrep did not prevent them from appearing once a real user account was created. I guess I thought UI changes made in Audit mode would hold and transfer to other users, but they don't....