Ed Bott Issues Win10 Report Card
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About two weeks ago, long-time Windows watcher Ed Bott offered an interesting assessment of Windows 10 at ZDNet. It's entitled "Windows 10 after two years: Microsoft's mixed report card," and...
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KB4016871 Fixes Spurious Win10 DISM Issue
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For the past five months, the Current Branch for Windows 10 (Builds 1604 and 1703) has been subject to a spurious DISM issue. (I blogged about this as far back as...
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Win10 Compact Saves Room
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Among built-in tools that reduce disk footprint in Windows 10, the compact command supports compressing OS files. Essentially it works because it compresses static OS executable files. These remain unchanged over time, unless replaced outright. Most modern CPUs...
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Slim Down Windows Images for Deployment
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One of my favorite sources for blog fodder here is MajorGeeks.com. This has been a great source for me over the years for Windows tools and utilities. I still visit there once or twice a week to see what's new and what's changed. Earlier today, I renewed my acquaintance with a Windows tool I've...
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Customize and Provision Windows 10 Images with Windows ICD
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There's an interesting tool available in the Hardware Dev Center portion of MSDN: it's called the Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer, aka Windows ICD. It's designed to streamline the process of customizing and provisioning a Windows image. The 0 Comments
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Another DISM tip for compacting Windows installations
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While perusing the postings over at the Windows 10 Forums earlier, I caught an item there entitled "Trimming down Win10TP" that taught me a new way to use the Deployment Image Servicing and...
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DISM Defaults Finally Working in Win10 Build 10074
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Like many other beta testers for Windows 10, I reported early on (around build 9879, if memory serves) that the deployment image servicing and management facility, better known as the DISM command, wouldn't work without an explicit
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