How To Install Windows Xp Professional

[Etta Lesniak]

Iknow that I can sign in with a personal Microsoft account (or create a local account), upgrade windows, join the device to AD and then switch to logging in with a corporate account. I would like to know:

In the OOBE, you can press SHIFT-F10 to open a console. I believe that Changepk.exe can be used to upgrade from Home to Pro given the right key. Will this work from the command line in the OOBE? It would save a lot of faff with unnecessary local accounts.

Once you hit the login screen, press F10 to open CMD. Technically you can open CMD while it's installing Updates but I don't recommend this because it will restart without warning and might interrupt the following process.

I wanted to add a note to the above answer. For many, they will have to press shift+f10 and maybe shift+fn+f10 to get the CMD to pop up. I don't have enough points to comment on amazing answer by Baa.

I want to thank you. I work for a small business. Well, not super small anymore, we have 80 employees now. But we were only 4 3 years ago. I buy computers mostly from Costco on sale and so they always have Windows Home. I have had to go through the steps of creating either a MS account user or local user in setup and then do the migration to Pro inside of windows. I had to install a bunch of software first too. Your trick really saved me a ton of time. I am so grateful!!! I am going to be using this trick for years to come. I setup 5-10 computers a month. We have pro keys but honestly it was more work entering them than your quick trick. I built an Azure active directory and use intune to keep all the computers organized. Your method instantly adds the new computer to my dashboard. This process took so much work before.

I am a student and new to inventor and have used it on a previous school computer, however it will not install on a new computer i just purchased. I have zero idea why it fail, but have attached the Installation Log File. I would greatly appreciate any help that you're willing to provide. Thanks so much in advance!!

Download and install per:

1. Access the Autodesk Virtual Agent (link is in my signature) and follow the download links to your product.

2. Download all of the parts (some applications only have a single part to download) for your product first. Do not continue until all of the parts have fully downloaded.

3. Navigate to your download folder location and extract (double click) part _001_00X.sfx.exe (or the single file download).

4. In a few seconds the extraction will start and prompt you to extract to C:\Autodesk.

5. Once the extraction is finished, the installation will automatically start.

6. Follow the installation steps for your product

If you want the full recommended installation steps, click on the installation link in my signature.

Good luck on your installation.

I'm trying to install inventor 2017 and on the installation screen it shows autodesk inventor 17 and the revit failed. How do I fix this? I went thru your link to download with browser. Thanks for the help.

So I would recommend uninstalling all version of the Visual C++ Redistributable on your machine (Windows Control Panel/Add&Remove programs) and then restart the installation again so that it can put them back on. Most likely you have a newer version than the installer needs. Report back on your progress.

Download and install per:

1. Access the Autodesk Virtual Agent and follow the download links to your product.

2. Download all of the parts (some applications only have a single part to download) for your product first. Do not continue until all of the parts have fully downloaded.

3. Navigate to your download folder location and extract (double click) part _001_00X.sfx.exe (or the single file download).

4. In a few seconds the extraction will start and prompt you to extract to C:\Autodesk.

5. Once the extraction is finished, the installation will automatically start.

6. Follow the installation steps for your product

If you want the full recommended installation steps, click on the installation link in my signature.

However if the installation does fail using this method, please post your installation log file here so we can review it. Posting info: Sometimes installation log files contain personal information such as your serial #. Prior to posting your log file please make sure to remove such info.

Although you were probably unaware of this, but when you post or share stuff here, please make sure it doesn't include your personal information such as your serial #. This is a world wide user forum and that type of info should not be included in your posting. Granted the installation log file helped us to determine your root cause (but it did contain your serial #)... So in the future remove or blur it out before posting. I will have the moderator remove it in order to protect your information.

I have the issue with windows C++ redistributable failing to install, I tried uninstalling it through control panel and that fixed nothing. I also tried during it through install agent and the initzialing bar doesn't move then it just closes.

Without your installation log file we can only speculate what the issue at this point. Posting info: Sometimes installation log files contain personal information such as your serial #. Prior to posting your log file please make sure to remove such info.

1. Clean out your personal temp (%temp%) folder. Set Windows UAC to never notify, full admin rights and if possible disable your Anti-Virus/Malware scanning utilities. Also the download should occur over a hard wired connection to the Internet and not over WIFI.

3. Download all of the parts (some applications only have a single part to download) for your product first. Do not continue until all of the parts have fully downloaded.

4. Navigate to your download folder location and extract (double click) part _001_00X.sfx.exe (or the single file download).

5. In a few seconds the extraction will start and prompt you to extract to C:\Autodesk.

6. Once the extraction is finished, the installation will automatically start.

7. Follow the installation steps for your product. At this point you could cancel the installation or create a deployment.

However if the installation does fail using this method, please post your installation log file here so we can review it. Posting info: Sometimes installation log files contain personal information such as your serial #. Prior to posting your log file please make sure to remove such info.

Mark, your suggestions sadly did not help in my case. I've even gone so far as to try it on a completely fresh Win10 install with UAC and Windows Defender disabled - still the genskf.exe window appears and progress bars stop filling.

I have all the latest updates for win 7 professional 64 bit. I've had microsoft support engineers doing a remote logins on my machines to check they are up to date and they have no idea why the Adobe installer thinks my windows needs updating.

If you attempt to install adobe cc 2017 on a windows pc running 64 bit professional sp1, you may find that the machine will no longer run any creative cloud software. Even going system restore to go back to an earlier point in time cannot get around this

Complete lie from lover of beta-cutting-edge software [like spying Windows 10]. I use latest Photoshop 2017 version on Windows 7 x64 sp1 + all updates. Not only Photoshop, but Illustrator and Premiere also. So, do not listen, Windows 7 is 100% compatible with latest Adobe products.

That's all it's about. Zero accountability. If they keep "INNOVATING", they can get away with all kinds of shabbiness; low quality. They free themselves of needing to fix bugs in previous versions by innovating and innovating and not worrying about perfecting the implementation. Why? Because they bedazzle the public and realize there is such a great deficit of legal help out there who are able to argue software negligence in face of legal rights we sign away.

This should not forgive bug fixes. If something like Win8-10 is a new direction for phones then there should be two product lines. I mean what the hell. How soon ARE the powers planning to DEW (in) all our space devouring desktops in?

I "upgraded" to Windows 10 only for running Lightroom. The new search ("Cortana") doesn't even find some programs when you type the full name, but will still offer loads of "web results" and even bring up addresses of shops somewhere, but not the application that is sitting right there in the start menu. This is a metaphor of everything that is wrong with Microsoft, they keep pushing new crap when their old crap is half-baked. If they can't even get a simple search right, then why do they bother adding new features?

So I guess I'll stop torturing myself and go back to Windows 7, I can always use Lightroom CC Classic. And if that stops working, then I will take 35mm film photos. And if Adobe don't care then be it.

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