Multi-OEM/Retail Project {MRP} - Mk3

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  1. mxman2k

    mxman2k MDL Developer

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    One of many yes :)
     
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  2. mxman2k

    mxman2k MDL Developer

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    I wasnt sure the remove 'home' nav one would work as it more involved and i had a educated guess at hubmode's registry entry. :D
     
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  3. mxman2k

    mxman2k MDL Developer

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    Not sure that w10 has Gallery -- yet, i have seen that Home appear but not recently so it may of been a m$ glitch at the time? but I have made both options for Home and Gallery icons/folders or what they are called to be gone... Until m$ decides to change things again. :D
     
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  5. mxman2k

    mxman2k MDL Developer

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    Will check code, been a long time since i added ssd tweaks in.

    I know that reg tweak is in the telemetry option.
     
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  7. mxman2k

    mxman2k MDL Developer

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    Checked code and that reg line for ssdtweaks was there but for some reason REM'd out :g: sorted that for next test version :)
     
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  8. mxman2k

    mxman2k MDL Developer

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    MRP 155 TV7 uploaded for beta testers :)

    TV6 went weird on compiling so redone it as TV7 after making sure Eset was told yet again to leave my files alone! :D

    Fixed the REM'd registry entry for the SSDTweaks option. I think what happened was in the Telemetry option that particular entry is also used as part of another 'fix' which i was testing things and forgot to unREM that line later.:oops:
     
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  10. mxman2k

    mxman2k MDL Developer

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    Had a new(ish) Dell Lattitude 3420 in for a reformat.... It refused to allow a local account point blank as it wanted to connect to a company, nothing in the bios i could see, i turned off TPM v2.0 and various things yet still it wanted a online account to the company (not m$). Never had a computer do that and i tried everything, even linux and yet it still wanted to connect to the company's domain!!

    In the end removed the M2 SSD and put it in another PC, shoved win11 on that and then put the disk into the laptop again, that sorted it as the PC wasnt win11 compatible so allowed the offline account.

    So it looks like newer laptops (2021 dated onward) can be locked somehow in the bios to a company domain system and no way to override it by normal means.

    I tried the unattend bypass method, no go. Even SHIFT F10 and oobe\BypassNRO way , it rebooted and still only the option to connect to the company domain system.

    The laptop was bought from a Energy company as 'old' stock, I contacted them and was told by the IT department that the Dell laptop(s) they had was modified to be used on their own domain system and basically useless outside of the company, so they was sold off as spares...

    So be aware that buying a company laptop now can be locked to that company!!
     
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  11. Enthousiast

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    Isn't that that stuff we had problems with in the past when the admin from the company needs to remove it from their systems to be able to install it? I think it was called autopilot.
     
  12. mxman2k

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    This is in the bios , yet nothing in the UEFI bios says the company name or anything to reference to it!

    Taking the drive out, installing windows on another PC to get past the online account part, worked out the only way i could get around that internal block!
     
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  13. mxman2k

    mxman2k MDL Developer

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    Never had a laptop locked like that, so that during win setup it will not go past using the companies domain system... The ssd was wiped and then secure wiped too so it wasnt anything on the drive which at first i thought was the issue but using the drive on another pc that it was not that and only the bios side of the laptop could be the cuprit. Contacting the company it was bought from confirmed they had it adapted, it also probably allowed a good discount on the fleet of laptops!
     
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  14. mxman2k

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    Just goes to show what Dell etc can actually now do along with maybe other companies, i am guessing m$ may have a hand in that at some point too so we forced to use a m$ account to use our own computers...
     
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  16. mxman2k

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    Ah so that is why this DELL behaved in such a way to ignore anything i tried to bypass being connected on line...

    Luckily the drive install windows on another device swap got around that, but i wonder for how long that will work...

    BIOS admin password locked devices was not enough hassle! :D
     
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