How to Exit Audit Mode

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How to Exit Audit Mode

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If you are having unsuccessful attempts at exiting audit mode and getting "fatal error messages", the following is what I did that worked:

Type regedit in the windows search bar and press enter.

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SYSTEM>Setup>Status.

By clicking on the "Status", you will see a registry key item called "AuditBoot." This value should be changed to 0. For my system I had the value at 1 when I couldn't get it out of Audit mode. I looked at the value differences of this item between my other computer and the one I had the issue with and this was the value that needed to change. By changing this value, the sub keys of Status will (should) automatically change. Hope this helps anyone struggling with this issue.

Below is a picture of the navigation and the corrected value from a working system:

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Anonymous

This was the only thing that worked for me, I have been struggling with this or over a month. Hopefuly I will now be able to get W10. Many thanks.

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OMG thank you so much, I've been trying to do this for ages and I've looked for different solution coz the one that didn't work was the one that kept popping up. But then when I did yours it let me disable it. Now I can finally get Windows 10. Thx again :D

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