Re: Windows 10 Pro Untouched Iso
Josephine Heathershaw
I have been dual booting Ubuntu and Windows 7 for a while now. In the past, I have used the "encrypt home folder" option to add (some) security to my installation (ie. now no one can easily steal my home folder's contents by booting a live CD or using Windows to access my Ubuntu root partition).
This is why I was excited to learn about the new Full disk encryption option in 13.10. I was able to successfully burn and boot the DVD. However, disk encryption and home folder encryption are not available options under "install along side them [the other operating system(s)]". Since I do not want to lose the Windows installation, I obviously do not want to select "erase disk".
You can't, full disk encryption as it names implies encrypts the full disk not just a partition. Worse, to keep attackers unable to tell used parts from unused parts of the disk it will overwrite all the disk with random values, that means that you can't use it without wiping all the disk, including Windows partitions.
What you can do if your laptop came with Windows installed and you want it "untouched" you can use the Windows Disk Manager to shrink the Windows volume to create unformatted disk space that you can use for Ubuntu partitions.Then using the Ubuntu installer you can accomplish a LUKS encrypted Ubuntu partition that protect both Ubuntu and your home directory.
The below mentioned description is the only one I have found that describes this for Windows Ubuntu dual boot where both operating systems can exist as individually encrypted on separate partitions (Bitlocker/LUKS) on the same drive:
I am using a dual boot system with Ubuntu 13.10 and windows8. I have a 64 bit hp pavilion g6 but when I last installed my win8 I installed a 32 bit OS, and then I installed my ubuntu over my win8. Now my workload on the win8 workspace has slowly increased and the 32 bit os operation is becoming a problem, plus the hardware reserved RAM for the 32 bit OS renders most of my RAM unusable. So I want to format only my windows partition and reinstall a 64 bit OS over there. Is it possible? If yes, how do I do it??
I have an excel workbook that connects to 6 other excel workbooks via Power Query. I would like to break that connection and keep the data untouched. That way if the workbook ever gets moved or what not, the data will always remain.
Best or not depends on goals. Both require same time - right click on the table and in Table select Convert to range or Unlink. The difference is that in second variant you keep structured table instead of range.
I'm working on an installation module (C#) for a distributed system.One of the requirements is being able to setup one of the servers as an NTP server (windows time service).I've followed several MS articles, for example:this onebut it seems that each one also requires to configure the NTP client settings (for example changing the server type from Nt5DS to NTP).
After investigating this issue for a while, looks like that's impossible.After reading this post, I understand that the same registry key is used for both NTP client and server protocols, meaning, if the same machine needs to be a client and a serve but the client should work with, let's say, NT5DS and the server's protocol is obviously NTP than it can't work.
I'm trying to run a factory recovery on a Dell OptiPlex 7010 with Windows 7 Pro 64 Bits. The recovery partition is present and untouched.
I've followed the instructions on some Dell sites and forums therads to press F8 > Advanced Options > Repair Computer > Language Select > Admin password > Dell Recovery Option.
However after the step where I enter the Admin Password, there is NO Dell Recovery Options AT ALL, only the standard Windows 7 restore options, like startup recovery, memory check, restore point, etc.
The restore from image option is not able to see the recovery partition.
What am I missing?
Thank you!
Not all Dell machines come with a recovery partition. In your case the machine may have been reformatted destroying the Recovery Partition. Newer Optiplex's have Dell backup and recovery manager, Using Dell Backup and Recovery Manager (DBRM) to launch Dell Factory Image instead of performing an OSRI .
No, unfortunately we were not able to get the recovery to function as described in the documentation and Dell was unable to help either. Yes, very sad. The quality and support in Dell has been lacking...
To access the recovery partition on your Dell computer for data recovery, follow the steps listed below.
1. Power on the computer
2. At the Dell logo, hold the Ctrl key and press the F11 key simultaneously.
2. The Dell PC Restore screen will come up.
3. Select Restore or use the Tab key to highlight it and press Enter.
4. if you wish to continue, click Confirm, or use the Tab key to highlight it and press Enter.
5. When the utility is finished, click Finish, or use the Tab key to highlight it and press Enter.
F8 restore is only for windows 7. Windows 8 and 10 use a different method. The Free programs Like Macrium Reflect will make recovery media regardless of whether or not the DBAR partition works. DBAR fails for many reasons. DBAR will not backup programs or user data unless you pay for the version that it nags you to upgrade to.
The reason you get Error 0x4001100200001005 is because the OEM hard drive was replaced with a retail hard drive. OEM drives are "tattooed" or branded and the DELL recovery media will search for it before installing. This is also why you cannot clone Dell Drives to new blank hard drives and keep the recovery partition.
BUT: the main question is: WHY is the update moving this (generic opencl.dll) dll, and NOT putting it back?
Do we make an error during 'registration'? Or is there something wrong with the dll that it is skipped?
How to check this kind things?
This is a long time issue between opencl.dll and windows update. It seems that the issue affects mostly Nvidia users, and that there is a 3rd Party component on it that clashes with Windows Update (likely with Windows Drivers updates).
Anyway I am very curious about Kinoite and the immutability concept as intended for more stable, less prone to bugs systems. I am most hopeful given the fact that the bugs I am concerned with were almost never present during the first period of use of the desktop: immutability might be the solution if Plasma stays untouched.
Hello @cipricus ,
In a word yes, you can multi-boot Silverblue and Kionite, but there are difficulties and caveats to be aware of. A good place to start looking it -US/fedora-silverblue/installation/, in particular you have to do manual partitioning in order to achieve this goal. Also, from past experience I found that I needed to install the other OS before installing Silverblue for multiboot to work correctly.
Portable apps are a kind of packaging and making available applications on Windows systems without an installation. The windows registry will remain (nearly) untouched. Portable apps are often used together with the PortablApps platform. Also they are often placed on a removable/portable storage device and can then be used, via USB mostly, on any windows host (nearly) without leaving any residues. Many versions of LibreOffice are available as portable versions packaged by the PortableApps people or by the document foundation itself as well. Read more here.
In the case of presentations I am also often asked to provide a ppt or pptx copy as a fall back solution is something happens with my PC or connection of my own PC is not possible, etc. For this I always carry a USB stick with a portable LibO version on it and my presentation. All I need is Windows PC to plug the USB stick and can run on LIbO my own presentation.
Hi,
We have a product installed with Installshiled. This product installs a service.
I some case, the client needs to add connexion credentials to allow the service to read data from a shared network drive. After adding credentials and restarting the service, the service works fine and can read data on the shared network drive.
When upgrading the product (major upgrade), the service is removed and re-installed and the connexion credentials are lost.
Is there any solution to keep untouched these connexion information or backup/restore them after an upgrade?
I have read old documents talking about HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SECURITY\Policy\Secrets\_SC_ access; but it seems that access to this part of the registry protected by Windows LSA is no longer possible.
Regards,
Chris
If it is installscript code you can try reading the service information from the registry in OnUpdateUIBefore & storing it in a global variable, and writing the information back to the registry in OnUpdateUIAfter.
Thanks@Jenifer for your suggestion.
This could allow us to store/restore credentials somewhere in the registry (then we would have to manage password encryption and security); your example looks like some found on the Internet.
The problem with this is that even if we can manage a user/password with our Installshield setup, we won't be able to start the service with this account. I guess only the windows LSA option can do that. The final goal here is to access a remote network share that could only be reached with a service started with a dedicated service account (managed by windows LSA).
Can you confirm this?
Our current workaround is to not delete the service at product uninstallation; I guess the service account will remain after product uninstallation, then it could work on upgrade. This is not really pretty (ghost service will exists with no binary available; some errors in event logs...) but I do not see any other to keep these LSA credential associated to the service.
Regards,
Christophe