- #Windows 10 unattended upgrade install
- #Windows 10 unattended upgrade update
- #Windows 10 unattended upgrade manual
#Windows 10 unattended upgrade install
With digital licenses, you can install and activate Home, Pro and Education editions on a single laptop, for example. If you use this image to install Windows 10 on a PC that already has the same edition activated, Windows automatically activates based on its digital license, derived from the device's hardware signature. Generic keys are valid only when installing Windows. To skip the product key prompt and activate Windows later, expand UserData, select ProductKey and enter a generic Windows 10 key. Selecting true in this case means the answer file provides the desired value and the installer doesn't have to wait for a human response to the question, "Do you accept the software license?" Add Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE to required pass 1. Right-click a component, and select where you'd like to add it. To add a component to an answer file, expand Components in the Windows SIM Image pane. Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE.This means you must add two components to configuration pass 1: To create a Windows 10 unattended installation, you must ensure that Windows Setup does not require user input. You must fill the answer file with components, each of which includes one or more settings from various configuration passes. Once Windows SIM creates the catalog, it opens an empty answer file. Then, browse to install.wim, and let Windows SIM create the catalog. When you copy install.wim to your host desktop, select File > New Answer File.
You cannot create a catalog if install.wim is write-protected or stored in a nonwritable form, such as an ISO file. To do so, copy the install.wim file from your Windows install media - the same image file you use to install Windows 10 on a technician virtual machine - from the Sources folder to a writable location. To create a new answer file, you must first create a catalog file. To do so, you must create an answer file with Microsoft's sysprep utility.įirst, you must install the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) then run Windows System Image Manager (Windows SIM) from Start > Windows Kits > Windows ADK > WSIM. Why, why, why would anyone want a secret, silent and invisible upgrade function that does not tell you when it has failed? Twats.Install process more efficient. I wonder how many more hours I will waste trying to diagnose and fix this developer-created problem? I see the Ubuntu developers have now got to the same level of incorrect arrogance. One of the reasons I stopped using Windows many many years ago was because they assumed THEY could do things to MY machine because they thought they knew better, but often did not. So I rebooted into the earlier version of the shell thinking I might be able to fix it from there and that also is in VGA mode now.
#Windows 10 unattended upgrade update
It came up on VGA mode! And only on one of the monitors! It seems it tried to update a nVidia driver and failed.
#Windows 10 unattended upgrade manual
On starting a manual update was when I found it had run a partial update three days earlier as some parts of the unattended upgrade had failed. In one of the failure reports it mentioned incompatible packages.