First things first: As expected, the SKU vs. Edition distinction that I called out in part 1 was somewhat contentious with some people. I used the terms somewhat interchangeably through the article. […]
SKUs, Glorious (Windows) SKUs: part 2
Michael Niehaus
SKUs, Glorious (Windows) SKUs: part 1
Those who have used Windows for many years have seen different editions, also known as SKUs (a carry-over from the days of physical packaged products where “stock keeping units” were IDs assigned […]
Replacing the hard drive in a Tivo
It’s a little off topic, but it ties in some of the Secure Boot topics that I had discussed previously, and might be useful to anyone trying such a maneuver in the […]
Turn off News & Interests page via policy
Back in February when I wrote my previous blog on this topic, you could turn off News & Interests via a per-user registry edit. At that point, it was just in an […]
Creating the smallest Windows 10 image
In my previous post, I talked about the size of Windows 10. (And yes, it’s slowly getting bigger.) But if you wanted to make a smaller image, how much smaller is even […]
Defender definition updates fail from Windows Update on Windows 10 20H2?
I have been building Windows 10 images based on the Windows 10 20H2 media and seeing repeated failures on the “Security Intelligence Update for Microsoft Defender Antivirus – KB2267602” installation. When doing […]
Automating Disk Cleanup on Windows 10
I’ve seen a variety of blogs over the years that talk about how to do this, but I never took the time to actually try it myself. No time like the present. […]
MDT image capture fails when there are pending file renames
A bug in MDT? Yes, and it looks like it’s been there for a while (going back to Windows 8 at least). Here’s the basic scenario: Use a standard client task sequence […]
Is Windows 10 “Taking longer than expected”?
It seems like I run into this screen way too often: While there can be a number of causes for this (in my case, it’s usually because there’s a script that popped […]
How big is Windows 10?
Over the years, there have been plenty of discussions about the size of Windows images. Over time, there were a variety of efforts to try to squeeze the OS so that it […]
