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KB3081455 - Failed to Install (10.0.10240.0x64)

Note : This has been pushed to the Feedback Tool. This post is for discussion on issue, troubleshooting and isolation.

Word on the street, this affects Windows Journal and some other applications; Windows Journal can be removed via administration and could possibly be the point of failure; This is causing rolling reboots in the night and all users logged in lose their work state; Windows Environment will be provided;

//Windows Environment (Pro x64)
Major Minor Build Revision
----- ----- ----- --------
10 0 10240 0

64-bit

Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00_14.0.22929.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Microsoft.AAD.BrokerPlugin_1000.10240.16384.0_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
Microsoft.Windows.CloudExperienceHost_10.0.10240.16384_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
Microsoft.AccountsControl_10.0.10240.16384_neutral__cw5n1h2txyewy
Microsoft.BioEnrollment_10.0.10240.16384_neutral__cw5n1h2txyewy
Microsoft.LockApp_10.0.10240.16384_neutral__cw5n1h2txyewy
Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_20.10240.16384.0_neutral__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Microsoft.Windows.AssignedAccessLockApp_1000.10240.16384.0_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_10.0.10240.16384_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
Microsoft.Windows.ParentalControls_1000.10240.16384.0_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
Microsoft.Windows.ShellExperienceHost_10.0.10240.16384_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
Microsoft.XboxGameCallableUI_1000.10240.16384.0_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
Microsoft.XboxIdentityProvider_1000.10240.16384.0_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
Windows.ContactSupport_10.0.10240.16384_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
windows.immersivecontrolpanel_6.2.0.0_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
Windows.MiracastView_6.3.0.0_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
Windows.PrintDialog_6.2.0.0_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
Windows.PurchaseDialog_6.2.0.0_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
windows.devicesflow_6.2.0.0_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
Microsoft.WindowsFeedback_10.0.10240.16393_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_1.4.8.176_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00_14.0.22929.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_10.1509.14010.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

Changed type Zen the Ocelot Friday, September 25, 2015 8:25 PM Not a question

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Try running sfc /scannow to repair missing or corrupted system files.

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@Hessamz | I understand there is a workaround, but the issue is the Apps removed from the system are failing the update. While this may fix the issue, running SFC will break our Windows 10 image.

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This didn't work for me on my SP3. You guys (Microsoft) need to get serious about fixing this.

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مصر

لو سمحت كنت محتاج اعرف عن موضوع تشغيل تطبيقات الاندرويد على ويندوز 10

يعنى مثلا انزلها منين

وهل هى بتشتغل مباشره ولا بتحتاج برامج تنيه ولو بتحتاج ايه هى البرامج الرسميه من الشركه ؟

Moved by Just Karl Monday, September 28, 2015 5:27 PM Off Topic

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Hello,

The Windows Desktop Perfmon and Diagnostic tools forum is to discuss performance monitor (perfmon), resource monitor (resmon), and task manager, focusing on HOW-TO, Errors/Problems, and usage scenarios.

Since your post is off-topic, I am moving it to the off topic forum.

I'd suggest searching Microsoft's Arabic forums, or posting in English.

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Introduction to Windows 10 servicing [TechNet Library]

Hi all:
I share this technical reading on Windows 10 Servicing:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt598226(v=vs.85).aspx

Best regards.

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I want someone to help me pour mon ordinateur Acer sous windows 10

Hello gentlemen I have a serious problem with my computer. For two days when I turn it on as usual he wrote me a message like * A DISK READ ERROR PRESS * occured on black background. I would like to know which method or way I can to eradicate this problem untiliser
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Moved by Emile Supiot Thursday, September 24, 2015 9:25 AM w

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If you have any USB thumb drive attached to your system then unplug that.

Back up all your data and run the following command via elevated Command Prompt:

CHKDSK X: /F and replace the X: with the drive letter you wish to scan.

S.Sengupta, Windows Experience MVP

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Create mailbox and settings checking entire environment- delay because of cmdlet Extension agent (Hosted exchange)

Hello,
we have one problem that is uncommon but its slowing our business as we grow.

We are developing exchange hosted on 2013 and process is quite slow, but it is slow because it is "verifying" all the environmental details like which address lists exists.

example when i run in verbose mode creation of user looks like this and verifying all the GALs and address lists:

Keep in mind that it is creation of single user only, so its just too much.

So, the question here is- is this possible to avoid?

I see some article about https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd297998%28v=exchg.141%29.aspx disabling cmdlet script agent, so it may be relevant?

Which agent can be related to this checks as we have scenario like this:

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-CmdletExtensionAgent | Format-Table Name, Enabled, Priority

Name                                                                            Enabled                                    Priority
----                                                                            -------                                    --------
Admin Audit Log Agent                                                              True                                         255
Query Base DN Agent                                                                True                                           1
Rus Agent                                                                          True                                           2
Mailbox Resources Management Agent                                                 True                                           3
Provisioning Policy Agent                                                          True                                           4
OAB Resources Management Agent                                                     True                                           5
Scripting Agent                                                                   False                                           6
Mailbox Creation Time Agent                                                        True                                           0

Maybe someone can give a hint what should be disabled :)?

BTW; here is code for creation user:

##Create User
#==================================================
$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop";
try{
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.SnapIn
$OrganizationName = "test@test.com" #User defined mail address
$organizationUnit = "OU=$OrganizationName,OU=Tenants,DC=secureemail,DC=priv"; #Pulled out from billing area- OrganizationID, customer ID, whatever it is unique in WHMCS
$name = "Mary"                                             #this should be asked in web interface (firstname)
$lastname = "Doe"                                                #this should be asked in web interface (lastname)
$displayName = "Mary Doe" # this is display name in OWA and in all address books
$logonName = "mary"    # this will be users choosen logon name (before @externaldomain.com)
$ExternalDomain = "test.com"        #this value user will enter as his wanted username and will use it together with his external domain name mary@example.com
$UPN = "$LogonName@$ExternalDomain"   #this should remain to be done automatically and under assumption domain is provisioned!!
$DomainController = "se-server02"   #this value must be specified based on domain controller in AD site where user will be created (se-server02 and se-server02 europe, se-8301 and se-8302 canada, sin-server01 asia)
$nonadmin = "$OrganizationName All Users"; #This is field for entire tenant management and members are used for calendar sharing
$database = "Europe8116"                                #add database here (dropdown in WEB with 3 options Canada, Europe, Asia)
$retentionPolicy = "removeContent8h"
$customattribute1 = "$OrganizationName" #Add for possible manipulation of tenants for future need
$customattribute2 = "ServiceID" #Add data from WHMCS for future reporting
$customattribute3 = "ContactID" #Add data from WHMCS for future reporting
$customattribute4 = "ClientID" # Add data from WHMCS for future reporting
$password =ConvertTo-SecureString 'Password123' -AsPlainText -Force
$mailbox = New-Mailbox -DomainController "$DomainController" -verbose -RetentionPolicy $retentionPolicy -UserPrincipalName $UPN -Name "$name $lastname" -OrganizationalUnit "$organizationUnit" -Password $password -FirstName "$name" -LastName "$lastname" -Displayname "$Displayname" -database $database -ResetPasswordOnNextLogon $false #This is part where user is created
Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity "$OrganizationName All Users" -Member $UPN -DomainController $DomainController -Confirm:$false     #at this line user is placed in distribution group and that group is used for additional security
Set-Mailbox -AddressBookPolicy "$OrganizationName ABP" -Identity "$UPN" -DomainController "$DomainController" -verbose #from this point user gets his address book and isolation part.
Set-Mailbox -Identity "$UPN" -DomainController "$DomainController" -verbose -EmailAddressPolicyEnabled:$False #disables force of address policy
Set-Mailbox -identity "$UPN" -PrimarySmtpAddress $UPN -DomainController "$DomainController" -verbose ; #assigns default mail address
Set-CASMailbox -identity "$UPN" -OwaMailboxPolicy Default -DomainController "$DomainController" -verbose #In this policy it is defined that user cant manage his password, as any future change will be managed globally here and automatically applied to all users
set-mailbox -identity $UPN -customattribute1 $customattribute1 -customattribute2 $customattribute2 -customattribute3 $customattribute3 -customattribute4 $customattribute4 -domaincontroller $domaincontroller
Set-MailboxFolderPermission -identity ${UPN}:\calendar -User default -accessrights none     #removes default free/busy for all users
add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity ${UPN}:\calendar -user $nonadmin -AccessRights AvailabilityOnly    #only members of classic users can see free/busy
$mailbox | Set-CasMailbox -DomainController "$DomainController" -verbose -ActiveSyncEnabled $true -PopEnabled $true -ImapEnabled $true -OWAEnabled $true -MAPIEnabled $true; #adding script for created user to be returned after creation
Import-Module ActiveDirectory;
repadmin.exe /syncall $DomainController
$temp = Get-Mailbox -DomainController "$DomainController" -verbose -Identity "$UPN"|Select Alias,Name,FirstName,LastName,DisplayName, RetentionPolicy, UserPrincipalName, OrganizationalUnit, DistinguishedName,SamAccountName, PrimarySmtpAddress, Database,ProhibitSendQuota,ProhibitSendReceiveQuota,IssueWarningQuota,WhenCreated, WhenChanged;
$size = Get-MailboxStatistics -DomainController "$DomainController" -verbose -Identity "$UPN"|Select TotalItemSize;
$cas = Get-CASMailbox -DomainController "$DomainController" -verbose -Identity "$UPN" | Select ActiveSyncEnabled, PopEnabled, MAPIEnabled, IMAPEnabled, OWAEnabled;
$response = @();
$code = New-Object PSObject –Prop @{responseCode="200"};
$response += $code;
$response += $temp;
$response +=$size;
$response += $cas;
$memberof=GET-ADUSER -server $DomainController –Identity ($temp | Select-object SamAccountName).SamAccountName –Properties MemberOf, Office,OfficePhone, Company, OtherName, Surname,Country,State, City,StreetAddress, POBox, PostalCode, HomePhone, MobilePhone, Fax, Description,LastLogonDate,Created, Modified| Select-Object MemberOf, Office,OfficePhone, Company, OtherName, Surname,Country,State, City,StreetAddress, POBox, PostalCode, HomePhone, MobilePhone, Fax, Description,LastLogonDate,Created, Modified;
$response += $memberof;
$response | ConvertTo-XML -As String;
} catch {
$props = @{responseCode='400';message="Can't create user";
detailMessage="$_"+" CategoryInfo: "+$_.CategoryInfo+", FullyQualifiedErrorId: "+$_.FullyQualifiedErrorId};
$object = New-Object PSObject –Prop $props;
$object | ConvertTo-XML -as String;
}
exit-PSSession
$ErrorActionPreference = "Continue";

Keep in mind that all prerequisites like ABP are created with Tenant script, which i can post if needed.

Thanks in advance,

Ivica

Reply:

This is a duplicate post of this one:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/bc14781d-764f-4b73-b53c-309f7e3a13b2/create-mailbox-and-settings-checking-entire-environment-delay-because-of-cmdlet-extension-agent?forum=exchangesvrdeploy

My answer:

You need a faster server!.

Its talking about 'Scripting Agent' which is already disabled by default. Hence nothing for you to disable here. All these verification details are necessary for Exchange to function correctly.

Regards,

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Unable to locate/recover a deleted mailbox from Exchange 2013

Apx 2 months ago an employee left our company and the AD account was disabled.

In Exchange 2013 ECP, the mailbox was granted Full Access to the users supervisor, for cleanup and eventual archiving.

Yesterday, a mistake was made and the disabled user account was deleted from Active Directory.

Today ldp.exe was used to recover the Ad account from the recycle bin.

The Exchange mailbox can not be found today and I would have expected to have 30 days to recover it:

[PS] C:\>Get-MailboxDatabase | Get-MailboxStatistics | Where {$_.DisconnectReason -eq "Disabled"} | fl DisplayName,Mailb
oxGuid,LegacyDN,Database | Out-File c:\temp\2015_Disabled.txt

Connect or restore a deleted mailbox
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj863438(v=exchg.150).aspx
The mailbox is retained until the deleted mailbox retention period expires, which is 30 days by default,
and then it's permanently deleted (or purged) from the mailbox database.

I am guessing that since the user was disabled in AD apx 60 days ago, that when the user account was deleted yesterday, the mailbox was permanently removed.

Would anyone be able to confirm that the typical 30 day retention of a deleted mailbox, is not applicable when the user account was disabled 60 days ago?

Many thanks for your advice.

Reply:

Hi,

Disabling an AD account is different from disabling a mailbox. When you disable an AD account, the mailbox is not deleted and is still connected to the AD account. If the mailbox was disabled then this means the mailbox was disconnected from the AD account and will be marked for deletion according to the default mailbox retention policy which is 30 days by default: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232039(v=exchg.150).aspx.

To answer your question, if only the AD account was disabled, you should be able to enable the account and the user should be able to access their mailbox. If the mailbox was disabled and more than 30 days have passed (by default) then you'll need to restore the mailbox from backup and then the instructions then depend on your backup solution. If you need to use the recovery database approach then see here:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee332351(v=exchg.150).aspx

http://exchangeserverpro.com/restoring-mailbox-exchange-server-2013-recovery-database/

This should answer your question. Let me know if you need any further assistance.

Thanks.

Mark Gossa

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Agree again with Mark,

There is a difference between disabling AD account and mailbox. In your case I guess you disabled mailbox (from ECP or Exchange powershell), then 30 days rule applies.

If disabled from AD, then mailbox is intact.

Our company have disabled users in AD for almost a year and their mailbox is still available if we enable ad account and login to their mailbox.

So restoring from a backup is your last solution I would guess.

I have a wiki as well to recover mailbox from backup database: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/29986.recover-mailbox-from-edb-file-to-existing-mailbox-or-export-to-pst-file.aspx

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Unless there is some additional action not provided, Yes the mailbox should be intact within the EDB. you can make an offline copy and use the RDB method to recover or if you want a GUI to check for the existence of the MB within an offline copy of the EDB you can get a DEMO license for our DigiScope product

Search, Recover, & Extract Mailboxes, Folders, & Email Items from Offline Exchange Mailbox and Public Folder EDB's and Live Exchange Servers or Import/Migrate direct from Offline EDB to Any Production Exchange Server, even cross version i.e. 2003 --> 2007 --> 2010 --> 2013 with Lucid8's DigiScope

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Hi,

If you're using Hyper-V or VMware then Veeam is a good backup tool which can restore individual mailbox items and individual mailboxes.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

Thanks.

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SCOM Alert Time

Hi,

I'm getting SCOM alert which consist of TimeSampled and other information. But when I look at value of TimeSampled, I am not able to make sense of all parts of DateTime. Apart from "0000000-04:00" other part of DateTime is quite self explainatory. Please help me understanding each part of TimeSampled value.

TimeSampled: 2015-09-21T02:04:48.0000000-04:00

ObjectName: MSExchange Message Tracking

CounterName: Percentage of MessageTrackingReport operations (via task) completed with errors

Value: 2

SampleValue: 50

Ravishankar Yadav, SCOM Admin | Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the answer if it helps you in anyway

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Hi, Time zone

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Which timezone are you in? I suspect 04:00 hours ahead of GMT?

http://blogs.technet.com/b/manageabilityguys/

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Thanks for replies.

Servers are in EST timezone.

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How to cutomize SharePoint 2013 master page site logo section

Hi All,

I would like to create company intranet site with some designing and adding visual web part features in master page , I tried to remove and utilize the site logo and site name section in master page but its not working , how can i use the full master page section ? please see the screen shot and let me know the possibilities for custom designing.

i tried with uploading HTML template through Designer option but its not look good.

Thanks,

Mani L

Edited by Manikandan Loganathan Monday, September 28, 2015 7:29 AM

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check this link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_d_izWMLCE

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Programming SQL Server using metadata - SQL Server 2012

Hi,

I'd like to find any books about how programming SQL Server by using metadata.

For now, I haven't found anything. Any suggests to me, please?

Many thanks

Changed type Eric__Zhang Sunday, October 11, 2015 10:43 PM

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What exactly do you mean?

For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert. - Becker's Law

My blog

My TechNet articles

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Read

http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=sqlserver&seqNum=296

Many Thanks & Best Regards, Hua Min

Edited by Jackson_1990 Saturday, September 26, 2015 12:29 AM

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what would you like to achieve? program using metadata, you mean SMO or T-SQL aspect?

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Need to change that hideous baby blue color urgent before my eyes burn

I'm running Win 7 64 bit RC and I will be running the Home Premium version once I receive it in a few weeks. As usual, Microsoft seems to have their GUI team divided between people with good taste and people with the most horrible taste. For example, the Windows Media Center GUI is beautiful, and a few parts of the new 7 Aero interface also are, such as the ability to change the color of the taskbar and the windows' border and top, but then you have these instances all over the place where Microsoft forces you to get stuck with that puke hideous baby blue color, such as the bar in explorer windows that starts with "Organize" and the bottom details pane, not to mention all the instances of highlighted items such as files and folders.

I know there's WindowBlinds and Win7 Style Builder, but how can I change the color of the top bar and the bottom pane? I know the others are a matter of opening the style in a resource editor and replacing PNGs, but I don't know if these two items I want are in the msstyles file or the shellstyle.dll, and if they are PNGs or not.

Help, please?

Changed type Nicholas Li Monday, October 12, 2009 2:36 AM

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Right click on an empty space on the desk top. Select Personalize, then select Window Color. It can be changed there.

BTW I like the blue and I suspect others do too. I don't know why people must be so derogatory towards others while describing what is their opinion or likes and dislikes.

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That doesn't do anything for my problem. I said in my original post that I want to change the color of the top bar that starts with Organize and the details pane, which are not modifiable at all without resource hacking or 3rd party software.

And the reason I'm so derogatory is because it pisses me off to no end that Microsoft forces their horrible taste in GUI to everybody. How difficult can it be for them to allow the user to change not only the color of the window, but the other colors as well? What's more aggravating is that in the old Win 95, 98, 2000, etc classic interface you were able to change every single color of the interface, but since XP they started forcing certain colors of the interface on the user, and given that they have such terrible taste for some things, that's very annoying. If they love that baby blue so much, fine, but don't force it on me, because I despise it, and I have to use my computer several hours a day.

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Reply:

Hi,

Thank you for your feedback on our UI. I will send this to our feedback team.

In the future, if you experience any issues or feedbacks regarding our products, you are also welcome to post a new thread in our forums. It is always our pleasure to be of assistance.

Thanks again for testing Windows 7.

Nicholas Li - MSFT

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unfortunately I got to agree with the original poster. In my opinion, I don't like the colour, but vista's greenish colour is a lot worse. I like the blue colour that microsoft used to use in early windows 7 build

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I have to agree with you. That was one of the first things I wanted to change. I liked the color of that bar in Vista much better (and the lines between folders on the left pane in Windows Explorer as well), but I'd prefer to be able to customize that color. I'm sure it wouldn't be rocket science for Microsoft to make it user-customizable. Why don't they? I like Vista's taskbar much better as well, the new one is hideous and vague. Seems like they wanted "change" for changes sake rather than improvement.

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A bit late but there is a way without hacking too deep into the system:

get aero.msstyles (as template) from your system.
Use "Restorator 2007" or you favourite to extract IMAGE and STREAM.
Use picture editing to change them, put them back in (new filename recommended). Your editing software should be aware of .PNG with transparency, or you'll have some funny graphics.

copy to %systemroot%\Resources\<directory-your-choice>\new.msstyles
create a corresponding .theme (text-only) file in %systemroot%\Resources\

You need http://uxstyle.com/ too, or else Win7 won't accept the theme and switches to Win-classic.

Don't ask me which .PNG are the menu resources you hate, I only shifted the cyan-blue color around to something else on nearly all pictures in there in a batch job (I left out some special ones), and now no more blue.

more hints:

http://www.aeroxp.org/board/index.php?showtopic=9353 (be aware, Vista topic, most of it is correct though)
http://www.aeroxp.org/board/lofiversion/index.php?t8697-150.html (be aware, Vista topic too)

http://www.aeroxp.org/board/index.php?showforum=122 (real Win7 place, but no resource-key yet).

Set

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i dont really see what you have against the color; i never gave it second thought. one thing i dont understand though is why that bar isnt part of the Aero interface. it would make more sense to me to have it be like the borders of the window rather than have a complete contrast between opaque white and translucent orange in my case. if you right click on your desktop and then hit Gadgets the windows that appears is what im talking about. Logically dont make the entire window that way just the parts you dont actually use for navigating the folders.

and speaking of PNGs, they dont display properly as a desktop background. the shadings get disorted into solid colors and the white doesnt blend with the set background color. here is a picture of what happens: http://img193.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktopvspictureviewer.png

furthermore Windows 7 has locks on all of its UI files and can use only allowable (aero glass, basic and classic) msstyles themes. im sure there is some way to hack them safely but looks to me like you stuck with the blue

hope this helps, nitrous_74

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A bit late but there is a way without hacking too deep into the system:

get aero.msstyles (as template) from your system.
Use "Restorator 2007" or you favourite to extract IMAGE and STREAM.
Use picture editing to change them, put them back in (new filename recommended). Your editing software should be aware of .PNG with transparency, or you'll have some funny graphics.

copy to %systemroot%\Resources\<directory-your-choice>\new.msstyles
create a corresponding .theme (text-only) file in %systemroot%\Resources\

You need http://uxstyle.com/ too, or else Win7 won't accept the theme and switches to Win-classic.

Don't ask me which .PNG are the menu resources you hate, I only shifted the cyan-blue color around to something else on nearly all pictures in there in a batch job (I left out some special ones), and now no more blue.

more hints:

http://www.aeroxp.org/board/index.php?showtopic=9353 (be aware, Vista topic, most of it is correct though)
http://www.aeroxp.org/board/lofiversion/index.php?t8697-150.html (be aware, Vista topic too)

http://www.aeroxp.org/board/index.php?showforum=122 (real Win7 place, but no resource-key yet).

Set

Thanks for your reply. I ended up buying Windows Style Builder because I figured it would make more sense to spend $25 than to spend hours trying to figure out which resource belongs to which GUI element. Still, it's a terrible misstep from Microsoft to not include a simple way to change a color in the GUI. For as long as I can remember Windows always had the possibility of changing any color in its GUI, I think it was possible in 3.1 and certainly in the classic GUI that started with Win 95. But since XP they started this arrogant stupid trend of setting more and more elements of the GUI in a fixed color and not a way to change it without purchasing 3rd party software and spending quite a long time working on it. Newer versions of Windows should be a progress over the older versions, and while the Aero interface has its advantages, it sucks to be stuck with a color that many despise all over the GUI. At least Mac OS X allows you to change all the blue elements to graphite. While it's also constrained, at least it's another option. If Windows would allow me to change all the baby blue elements to graphite, I wouldn't care to modify the GUI at all.

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i dont really see what you have against the color; i never gave it second thought.

Well, it may not be hideous for you, but it is for me, and for many other people. The problem I have here is not so much against the color itself, but against Microsoft thinking that that color is wonderful and that everybody will like it. Different people like different things, and Microsoft should allow an easy way to change all of the colors in its GUI in a way that is as easy as changing the color of the window border.

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The problem I have here is not so much against the color itself, but against Microsoft thinking that that color is wonderful and that everybody will like it. Different people like different things, and Microsoft should allow an easy way to change all of the colors in its GUI in a way that is as easy as changing the color of the window border.

well amen to that. i mean good lord can the basic theme be any uglier?!

hope this helps, nitrous_74

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I think it was possible in 3.1 and certainly in the classic GUI that started with Win 95.

Windows 2.0 too, even in Hercules monochrome you had lots of choices of either color or shading pattern for UI elements - childhood memories *g*.

Cannot tell it for Windows 1.0, but that one does not really count since it#s usability was below everything else by that time.
I only "installed" it once for curiosity reasons, about 6 or 7 years ago.

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I just upgraded to 7 an the baby blue menus bug the ____ out of me, I hate them, So much i want to put vista back on my pc! also why cant we change the task bar colour independent of the window colour? I like the graphite glass colour for the task bar but cant stand it around my windows! Errrrrr Microsoft why cant you let us set things up how we want them!!!! Screw it im setting MAC as my main partition!

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I associate with ony and original posting. I updated to Windows 7 two days ago and had been trying desperatly to change the baby blue of explorer's menus and bars. I can't stand it + of course it contrasts with the "theme" I chose. MS should have given the option to choose our colors. When one work with a computer many hours a day, being continuously faced with a hated color may drives one crazy. It is surely already (2 days!!) getting on my nerves.

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I just changed from Aero whe're I had everything pretty much colourless glass which was fine despite a slight annoyance of gradients and glass shine effects... now I'm faced with this blue theme aswell and would like to make a desperate plea to Microsoft to fix this overnight. I program. I know this would be a piece of cake for a piece of software that is well written to implement. I don't want to sacrifice performance just to get this in my eyes horrible colour theme out of the way.

ಥ_ಥ;; how do I worked fast?

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Agree with all on awful blue. Don't know for others, but I have NVIDIA card. Go to those settings, adjust colours with gamma settings... I add some red, then I adjust until colour is bearable. Keeping in mind that when working with art or photos, it will be necessary to set accurately for printing etc. But when working in Word programs etc, I am able to get colours to something not too offensive. And by using WIndows 7 basic scheme, can set everything else with colours and fonts I want. It is only that truly hideous blue which is fixed. So try adjusting through your video card. You also may have to adjust again when watching films, baseball games or whatever.

Point is, no new software necessary, just patience and keeping in mind that you are going to make more regular colour adjustments according to task. Boring and annoying. But only solution I have found YET!

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im sorry that you feel this way i tryed i had paticence for blue eyes. good luck in the near fiture i wish you your happiness but my color is blue sorry

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i would like it to be clear i just changed my orb and that crap messes it up

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i would like it to be clear i just changed my orb and that crap messes it up

i will just keep hackin windows till i get rid of it

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The blue is hideous.

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Group Policy Not getting update.

In our infra group policy is not getting update.....but if we re-join the domain then group policy getting updated

what will be the issue

Please mail on prashant.raut@live.com

Thanks,

Prashant Raut

Reply:

Kindly repost the issue to the Group Policy section of Windows Sever Forums for getting better assistance.

S.Sengupta, Windows Experience MVP

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Mr

Please assist me

HTC 8x boot looping after Win 10 update from Windows Insider program

Hi,

Today I got an update notification for Windows 10 from the insider program. After about 40 minutes of installing, it shut off. Since then it's just crashing after showing the cogs for about 15 seconds. I tried doing a hard reset, but the exclamation mark never shows up. The phone just reboots when the exclamation mark should show. The Windows Phone Recovery Tool doesn't seem to be of use either. The phone is not recognized and when I follow the instructions to get into the boot loader, it still doesn't recognize it. I only get an unrecognized USB BLDR device in my Windows device manager.

Does anyone have a solution/clue for this problem? I'm seeing a bunch of people with the same problem. Would hate to have a bricked phone because of this messed up push from MS.

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i have this problem but icant fix it !!

S.O.S Helppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp

Edited by foadevil Monday, September 28, 2015 1:57 AM

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michiel can u fix ur phone ? help me please

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Check if files listed in a text file exist

Hi,

I have a text file with a list of file names (including path) each on a seperate line.

Does anyone have an existing script (or know how) to test whether each file in that list exists on the local computer, then export whether it exists or not?

Im guessing its going to use something like test-path but Im a complete newbie to powershell.

Many thanks,

Reply:

A good simple project for learning.

help Get-Content
help Test-Path

look here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/dd793612.aspx

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