In-place/Repair Upgrade/Format-Reinstall

Discussion in 'Windows 10' started by Mr.X, Feb 12, 2021.

  1. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    Yes...
    Afaik, the deltabuild nr (.xxxx) doesn't matter but why not directly go for the most recent publicly available build?
     
  2. Mr.X

    Mr.X MDL Guru

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    Is there a way to apply the upgrade without converting uup to iso
     
  3. Enthousiast

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  4. donmiller

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    A UUP Homebrew ISO isn't needed to do a Windows 10 in-place repair/upgrade. Just get an MVS ISO or the official MSFT 19042.631 ISO. Make sure you have an edition on it that matches the edition you are running right now, like Pro, or Enterprise, etc. Don't install 19043 as you won't get any standard Windows Updates after you install it.

    For Windows 10
    Take ownership of the following registry key:
    \HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\EditionVersion

    Modify the EditionBuildNumber subkey to 4a61 (19041)
    Modify the EditionBuildQfe subkey to 1fc (508)
    Reboot.

    Now, with Windows 10 running, just double-click the Windows 10 ISO and run Setup.exe from it.
    I recommend you do this off-internet, and select "change how Windows downloads updates" to No.
    Doing an on-internet in-place upgrade defaults to running Dynamic Updates which takes additional time to connect and communicate with an MSFT endpoint.

    Also, when you're done with the upgrade, you're probably going to want to delete the Windows.Old folder. I recommend that you use Windows 10 cleanmgr.exe to delete the Windows.Old folder.
     
  5. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    The FiX is doing that but for once show him how you do it, you never showed it doing it yourself once.
     
  6. donmiller

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    By “him”, I am presuming you mean “Mr.X”. Since “he” hasn’t asked me for further information, I presumed he knew how to take ownership of a regkey. And since you already know how to do this, then why are you asking me? There are procedures all over the internet for taking ownership of regkeys, and I don’t have anything to prove here.
     
  7. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    Your response on the method i use in my FiX was (when it was suggested by @abbodi1406) "i don't like to use nsudo, because it's AV unfriendly", no further follow up answer about how you did it.

    There was no nee for @Mr.X to ask more about it:
     
  8. donmiller

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    I’ve already told you why I didn’t post it before, and I’ve told you again, even now: It’s all over the internet. It is elementary and ubiquitous. But I’m away from my pc right now. I can send links or create a procedure, when I get back to my pc. Would you like me to reinvent the wheel for you as well?
     
  9. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    I only am interested in your way to take ownership of the registry keys, i thought that would be easy for you to post.
     
  10. donmiller

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    Not from an iPhone. I’ll post it when I get back to my PC.
     
  11. donmiller

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    Here is an attached first draft of the "Taking Ownership of Windows 10 Registry Keys" procedure in PDF format. I did not know how much space it would take up in the thread, so I put it in PDF format. Please keep in mind this is a quick first draft so it may contain some non-critical errors.
     

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  12. donmiller

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    I guess I should have alerted you that the first draft is done. 'Hope this helps...
     
  13. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    Easy answer would have been, "i do it manually, the long way", would have saved you from all the copy/pasting to the pdf;):)
     
  14. donmiller

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    What did you expect, a new kind of Wheel? :D
    upload_2021-2-26_13-35-23.png
     
  15. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    All is possible these days on mdl:D
     
  16. Mr.X

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    @Enthousiast the other day or months back I read in one of your posts, don't ask me which one lol, iirc, you said one of the best W10 editions to install was Education. Correct? If yes then could you tell me why is that please? Thanks in advance.
     
  17. Enthousiast

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    #37 Enthousiast, Feb 27, 2021
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    It's freely available to download from techbench dump, same administrative options as Enterprise but even less uwp apps pre-installed. Best to search for posts about it by @BAU, he was the one pointing at it's advantages.
     
  18. Mr.X

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    #38 Mr.X, Feb 27, 2021
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    Yeah, here it is one of his posts
    Another one re in-place upgrade
    Re MS apps and telemetry
    Obviously, I guess, less resources consumption especially cpu.
     
  19. Mr.X

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    Need to format HDD and reinstall Windows 10 Home Single Language

    OEM HP laptop came with W8.1
    Time later owner upgraded to W10 HSL

    User account protected with PIN

    What I need to backup in order to reactivate
     
  20. 3zero3

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    I think, no need to backup, activation is inside BIOS.

    Check:
    Code:
    wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey
    Or check MRP QT info.