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Sounds good me amigo.  Like I was saying above, I think is more of a Microsoft issue.  The application states clearly that the "mum" file in question only affects Windows updates, and the issue I am having is in regards to the DISM /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth command returning the source files could not be found, the source files which are usually obtained from Windows update.  I actually have a call scheduled with a level 2 Microsoft Tech on Monday concerning this as well, so hopefully there will be a quick fix.

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Hello forum community.  So I updated to the newest build of Windows 10 a couple of days ago and I began getting an error when attempting to perform Dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth commands (even with the /source and /limitaccess arguments specified) that the source files could not be found.  In an attempt to fix, I ran Windows AIO app in safe mode, and found that, during the pre-scan, the following package file was found to have a bad digital signature:

C:\Windows\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-TestRoot-and-FlightSigning-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.15063.0.mum

So I mounted the "install.wim" of the boot media used, obtained the file in question fresh from the source, replaced it, and tried again.  It was still flagged as having a bad digital signature.  So, thinking that it may have been due to the in-place upgrade, I wiped my computer and installed from scratch.  After a few application installs (office, new adk, etc) I ran the above DISM command again only to find that I was again getting the source files could not be found error.  I then ran the pre-scan again to find that the exact same file mentioned above was still showing as having a bad digital signature.  Is this an error on the part of Windows AIO repair, or is this a Microsoft issue.  I am inclined to think it is a Microsoft issue, but wanted to get another opinion.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / USer manager not creating users
« on: February 11, 2017, 08:40:19 am »
I have tried this twice now with the user manager in technician toolbox.  When run on Windows 10 x64 pro redstone, when attempting to create a user when running the tool while logged in as the built in administrator, the tool not only fails to actually create the user, but falsely reports that it succeeded in creating the user.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Volume shadow Copy and Reg backup
« on: January 28, 2017, 12:16:12 pm »
Nobody?  Nothing??  I am disappointed

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Volume shadow Copy and Reg backup
« on: January 28, 2017, 10:12:15 am »
Ok.  Let me clarify the issue.  Its not that the application doesn't work at all.  The attached picture shows the issue that I am having.  The difference between the two being that (supposedly) when using the volume shadow copy service, you can copy files even if they are locked (because they are in use or other reason).  However, since the volume shadow service method refuses to work, here is the line out of the log file for that particular backup attempt:
[1/28/2017 - 11:47:40 AM] Backing Up File: C:\Users\Administrator\ntuser.dat
[1/28/2017 - 11:47:40 AM] Result: Failed - Error: -1 (API Reg Save Failed (), Tried File Copy, File In use, Cannot copy.)

Thus, I am still trying to figure out how to get the volume shadow copy method to work correctly.  For more information, look under the FAQ for Registry backup under "What advantages are there versus ERUNT?"

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Volume shadow Copy and Reg backup
« on: January 28, 2017, 08:57:01 am »
Ok, so I I have never gotten this to work, EVER, but haven't really minded it because it still works with the simple copy method.  Now I am having to restart my computer simply to unlock a user registry file, so now seems as good a time as any to ask why, even when I specifically go into my "services" and manually run every single service that has the words "volume shadow" in it, why will regbackup absolutely refuse to use the method that utilizes volume shadow services?  Is the text that is shown on the registry back up window not accurate?  Does the application just not like me?  ?

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General Computer Support / Re: How to "delete files on next reboot"
« on: October 31, 2016, 04:22:52 am »
Boggin,
My Goal is to Script this process.  Trying to build a repair script.

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General Computer Support / How to "delete files on next reboot"
« on: October 30, 2016, 06:59:40 pm »
Hello all.  I am currently writing a script in which I need to delete some constantly in use files using a delete on reboot method.  I have looked into the "PendingFileRenameOperations" registry key, but have yet to find a good example of its use or if it can be used to delete directories and their sub-directories and files.  Can someone advise as to if this is possible?  Is there another way to accomplish the same thing?  Which method would be best to use? Any advice would be awesome.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Chkdsk
« on: September 17, 2016, 08:30:02 pm »
I am afraid you are mistaken sir.  Running chkdsk without any parameters (for example chkdsk C:) is the command that scans for errors, or the "read-only mode" that keeps returning incorrect information if you will.  The pictures below show the command prompt help for chkdsk, and even a snapshot from Windows AIO repair, as even shane put the command switches used for the chkdsk when you select "run chkdsk at next boot".  Try running "chkdsk /f C:" on your computer.  It will return immediately say that it can't perform the scan for fixes because the drive is locked.  Not soon after, immediately after.  Its not scanning the drive for errors to report them, its trying to scan the drive for errors to FIX them, but cannot because it is being used.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Chkdsk
« on: September 17, 2016, 10:22:42 am »
I'm not sure what you mean by that.  All running chkdsk /f is going to tell you is that the drive is locked and can't be scanned until you restart.  That doesn't tell you if there are any bad sectors or not.  Plus, the Windows recovery environment, at its core, is a extremely slimmed down version of the same os.  If you run chkdsk from it, it will find and repair the same corruptions that the version on the full os would.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Chkdsk
« on: September 17, 2016, 10:11:31 am »
What I think the orginal poster is trying to determine (I apologize if I misunderstood by the way) is if chkdsk is actually repairing anything.  During the boot time scan, there is no indication if chkdsk is finding anything wrong, repairing it, not repairing it, it tells you nothing.  I think he was looking for some validation that "there is nothing wrong with my HD", as I have sought the same thing which is why I do the scans in this way.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Chkdsk
« on: September 17, 2016, 10:03:53 am »
scroll down until you see "option two".  The picture right above that.  So it would be everything under "option one" on the page at that link.  And the fact that it is outside of Widows is the whole point for doing this.  Windows can't be writing files to the disk when it is not running, right?

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Chkdsk
« on: September 17, 2016, 09:59:29 am »
Oh, and before anybody asks, this is applicable starting in windows 7 and up

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Chkdsk
« on: September 17, 2016, 09:57:22 am »
Oh no sir
http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5487-recovery-environment-use-troubleshoot-windows-10-failure-boot.html
As you can see, just before option 2 on this page, their is an option to launch a command prompt

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Chkdsk
« on: September 17, 2016, 09:55:24 am »
Now this is optional, but if you do build your own pre-installation environment and you want it to be a bit more advanced than a single command prompt, you have got to check out this amazing "pre-installation environment customization tool" which lets you add and Windows GUI interface and essentially any application you could possibly want to a Windows "Live boot" disc
http://theoven.org

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Chkdsk
« on: September 17, 2016, 09:50:49 am »
I'm sorry.  Is this a request for me to do this or is this a question?  If it is a question, then both of the options I mentioned do not actually boot into windows.  It boots into an entirely separate, very very small, operating system that has many of the command line utilities that Windows has available to it.  You can run chkdsk from this environment in any way you could run it from  regular windows environment.  HOWEVER, if you build a Windows Pre-installation environment using the Windows adk, it VERY, VERY important to use the same version of the adk that corresponds to the version of the Windows you have installed (there are multiple adks for windows 10).  So you do not need "administrator rights" when running the command prompt sing either method mentioned above: all it is is a blank background and a single command prompt.  When you exit the command prompt, the computer restarts.  I hope this answered your question.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Chkdsk
« on: September 17, 2016, 09:17:50 am »
I get this error all the time too when running chkdsk in read only mode.  The way I get a 100% accurate reading of what is going is by either creating a windows Pre-installation environment and booting to it, or by booting to windows recovery environment and launching command prompt, then run the chkdsk from there.  Windows recovery environment is located on a separate partition altogether and windows pre-installation environment you boot from a usb stick or disk, so gets rid of that issue right there.

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Try this.  I downloaded this off of the Microsoft script repository. 

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Mine is the same - I've notified Shane.

Thank you sir.  Much appreciated

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I think the attachment says it all.  Any idea what is going on?  Also, even when windows AIO repair is open, the useful taskbar icon will not appear, even when the shortcut is directly launched.  Any ideas?

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As a matter of fact, I am connected to a corporate.  My work device has been configured so that it can access the corporate's network over the Internet as well by configuring the DNS settings of the network adapters.  But this is why it confuses me.  I have a domain setup in my home environment as well, and Technician toolkit is able to properly differentiate between the domain users and the local users.  But then again, this is on my personal machine which is joined to my personal domain, so I guess it is just how the domain is structured/configured?  Because it is still doing it after restarts, and even have (in an attempt to bypass the annoying group policy that disable Windows updates and cut off relationship with domain controller, because seriously, disable Windows updates?!?) run all repairs in windows repair AIO and it still does it.

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Ok, so I have never quite seen anything like this in technician's toolkit before: I have a corporate computer that is of course a member of a domain.  But when I access the "manage users and groups" tool, when managing users and I select the local computer as the environment to search, it seems like it is, instead of saying "please wait" like one would normally see when the list is loading, it initially loads a blank list and seems to be actively adding all of domain user accounts to the list, even thought mind I have selected only to view the users local to PC.  What is going on?  NOte each picture is in groups: first picture shows bottom of list at time of first shot, and the second will show bottom of list as more items are added to list.  *EDIT*  Another interesting issue that I just found out concerning technician toolkit's "manage users and groups" tool on this particular corporate device: when ever I try to close the "manage users and groups" sub-tool, it keeps relaunching at my attempts to close it, forcing me to exit out of technician toolkit altogether to get it to go away.  Anyone else run into these strange issues?

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Hmmm.  I'm not sure about that.  I like obtaining the official iso for a reason.  When you create an iso using the media creation tool, the media uses "esd" files rather than "wim" files for the install (and maybe boot) components, and since I am someone who performs operating system deployments for my company, wim files are the media needed to be able to perform offline servicing, deployments, and utilization of the many tools available in the ADK.  That is why I don't use the media creation tool.  I do, however, use a similar tool that I recommend everyone take a look at: a simple tool which is similar, but downloads the iso image selected directly from Microsoft servers:
https://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technology-science/microsoft/67-microsoft-windows-and-office-iso-download-tool
This is what I use to download the latest iso from microsoft.  And as you will notice, Thresh hold 2 is labeled as the release for April 2016, which can be corroborated by going to the tech bench website and downloading the latest iso manually.   So, this should not be an issue.  Any other ideas?

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Hey all.  Been a while since I posted to these forums.  But I have an issue which is causing me a great deal of frustration.  This morning, I performed two, separate clean installations of windows 10 Threshhold 2 using the iso obtained from the tech bench website.  Before I continue to the problem, however, it should be noted that I have written a custom powershell script which I use to automate the process of customizing my windows environment, which can be found here: https://gist.github.com/DemonDante/fb39757fdaf02071b47b24f234714318
Now, as a part of the customization (as you can see if you look at the script), near the end, I download the RSAT msu for Windows 10 and perform a silent installation and force a reboot afterwards.  Now here is the strange thing, and I have never had a problem with this before, yet it happened on two brand new installations that I attempted this morning: when the computer restarts and seems to be finalizing the "configuring updates" portion of the RSAT tool installation, when the process reaches 100%, it will say "We couldn't install the updates.  Rolling back changes".  Then it wikll restart a couple of times and then, when I log back in, I look in my start menu and, lo and behold, under administrative tools, all of the RSAT tools appear there and seem to work fine, and the update also appears in the list of "installed windows updates" in control panel.  I guess they didn't get the memo huh?  Anyway, I'm not sure how to pursue diagnosing this issue.  If i uninstall the update and attempt to reinstall it, same result.  Same result also when I extract the .cab file from the msu file and try to apply it to the online image using DISM.  I'm about to throw my pc out the window.  Any ideas?

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For those in the market for a new computer, do NOT go with an HP product,  Anyone who is posting on these forums I assume has a basic understanding of troubleshooting, which is more that can be said for hp help desk support.  Not only do they love wasting your time having you repeat steps you have already done just to fuck with you, they wanted to make me sit through another extended, 4 + hour long boot time hard drive diagnostic scan with the HP tool, when I had just gotten through performing a 6 hour scan using a tool developed by the actual manufacturer of the faulty device, which in my opinion, trumps whatever hp's shitty little tool says (which of coarse found nothing).  In order to get my device serviced like it needed to be, I actually had to re-create the issue that began this post and add that to the mix before they would finally accept my demand that they follow through with their warranty.  Word to the wise: HP is not the way to go unless you enjoy time wasted and being treated like an idiot or talking to idiots.

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