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Upgrade to Windows 11 using installation assistant fails after 5 hours (undoing changes) and reverts to Windows 10

Upgrade to Windows 11 using installation assistant fails After five hours it displays "undoing changes" and reverts to Windows 10 No other messages are displayed. I have found the setupact.log and setuperr.log files in…

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Sysinternals
Advanced system utilities to manage, troubleshoot, and diagnose Windows and Linux systems and applications.
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asked 2025-07-04T01:55:36.6966667+00:00
JohnSTEVENS-0794 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-07-07T09:39:06.01+00:00
Docs 15,761 Reputation points
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RDCMan: where to report bugs?

There seems to be no official documented mechanism for reporting bugs in Sysinternals stuff, so... Verified on RDCMan 3.1 (x64) exe build dated June 18th 2025, as well as earlier versions: If RDCMan is in the foreground, and or monitor sleep/power save…

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Sysinternals
Advanced system utilities to manage, troubleshoot, and diagnose Windows and Linux systems and applications.
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asked 2025-07-06T00:44:02.3+00:00
Jeremy Chadwick 0 Reputation points
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Microphone audio enhancements

So I have searched all over the internet and found nothing about it: My microphone sounds muffled, bad and not what it supposed to sound like. I use a sure sm7b as my main mic and also the akg d7 and both sound almost the same, doesn't matter which…

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Sysinternals
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asked 2025-07-05T19:46:49.0966667+00:00
Cosmobox 0 Reputation points
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Secure boot keeps getting disabled everytime I log in. (HP-15s-3xxxtu, windows 11)

No legacy mode, no fast boot or startup, CMOS is perfectly fine as the dates or time remain same. I keep enabling secure boot in the BIOS but it returns back to disabled after the pc restarts. I reset it to default keys which allowed me to enable the…

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Sysinternals
Advanced system utilities to manage, troubleshoot, and diagnose Windows and Linux systems and applications.
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asked 2025-07-04T16:48:08+00:00
Dev 0 Reputation points
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Windows update keeps failing

Hi, Why does KB2267602 still appear in Windows Update even though I manually updated the Defender definitions? It keeps: Downloading.. Installing.. Downloading.. Installing.. I have tried stop/start service, delete software distribution, restart the…

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Sysinternals
Advanced system utilities to manage, troubleshoot, and diagnose Windows and Linux systems and applications.
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asked 2025-07-03T07:22:04.58+00:00
Monay 0 Reputation points
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RDCMan Title Bar clean-up

Hi All, A minor cosmetic issue, but something I would like to improve if possible. Is it possible to simplify the text in the title bar and remove the Sysinternals URL? Thanks David

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Sysinternals
Advanced system utilities to manage, troubleshoot, and diagnose Windows and Linux systems and applications.
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asked 2025-07-02T09:17:06.0933333+00:00
David Guillaume 0 Reputation points
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KB2267602 keeps failing

Hi, Why does KB2267602 still appear in Windows Update even though I manually updated the Defender definitions? It keeps: Downloading.. Installing.. Downloading.. Installing.. I have tried stop/start service, delete software distribution, restart the…

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Sysinternals
Advanced system utilities to manage, troubleshoot, and diagnose Windows and Linux systems and applications.
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asked 2025-06-29T22:43:43.3766667+00:00
Monay 0 Reputation points
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Virus Total in Autoruns and Process Explorer

Recently the Virus Total column in the Sysinternals Autoruns and Process Explorer tools is showing an error. Autoruns will show a few correct entries initially and then eventually displays only errors. If I re-scan an entry that was correct, it will…

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Sysinternals
Advanced system utilities to manage, troubleshoot, and diagnose Windows and Linux systems and applications.
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asked 2025-05-10T15:03:22.76+00:00
BOB-1057 10 Reputation points
commented 2025-06-29T21:45:11.37+00:00
BOB-1057 10 Reputation points
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How to fix sxuptp.sys driver, old Silex driver, from not loading on Windows 11

How to fix sxuptp.sys driver, old Silex driver, from not loading on Windows 11? "Upon startup of pc a program compatibility assistant issues a popup message: A driver cannot load on this device Driver: sxuptp.sys A security setting is preventing…

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Sysinternals
Advanced system utilities to manage, troubleshoot, and diagnose Windows and Linux systems and applications.
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asked 2025-06-27T15:25:47.1333333+00:00
jreynolds 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-06-29T01:17:02.2166667+00:00
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unable to type in the windows boot menu cmd windwow

When acidentally booting windows 11 in safe mode minimalist i could no longer log in due to no wifi nor ethernet being able to turn on and having my login pin code be forgotten, now when loading up the bios boot menu to manually use the cmd window to…

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Sysinternals
Advanced system utilities to manage, troubleshoot, and diagnose Windows and Linux systems and applications.
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asked 2025-06-28T21:25:57.44+00:00
Barend van der Meijden 0 Reputation points
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Problem with Process Explorer Windows 10 "a device attached to the system is not functioning"

When I attempt to bulk check for all processes in Process Explorer with VirusTotal, This error show up "a device attached to the system is not functioning". I have already attempted to resolve the issue by deleting it from the registry and…

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Sysinternals
Advanced system utilities to manage, troubleshoot, and diagnose Windows and Linux systems and applications.
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asked 2023-07-04T01:32:31.4+00:00
ali sabir 5 Reputation points
commented 2025-06-28T18:36:00.74+00:00
User 0 Reputation points
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Can't send PsExec command to a remote computer in my LAN

I'm running v. 17.06 of Process Explorer and PsExec v. 2.43. I was following a YouTube video by Aaron Margolis on using PsTools, specifically I was focusing on psexec. First off, I ran into not being able to run any of the commands from pwsh without…

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Sysinternals
Advanced system utilities to manage, troubleshoot, and diagnose Windows and Linux systems and applications.
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asked 2025-06-26T23:16:20.81+00:00
Rafael Silva 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-06-27T21:45:51.2666667+00:00
MotoX80 36,401 Reputation points
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RDCMan 3.1 - application hang after signing out of RDP session

Newest RDCMan 3.1 freezes and then crashes after signing out from RDP session to Windows Server virtual machine. App event log only says following: Event ID 1002, Application Hang The program RDCMan.exe version 3.1.0.0 stopped interacting with Windows…

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Sysinternals
Advanced system utilities to manage, troubleshoot, and diagnose Windows and Linux systems and applications.
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asked 2025-05-12T11:06:46.89+00:00
Mario Bešen 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-06-23T06:12:55.3466667+00:00
Jim Willsher 0 Reputation points
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Sigcheck64 - VT detection - A device attached to the system is not functioning

Hey everyone, Hoping someone here might have run into this before. I’m trying to run sigcheck64.exe -vt on a Windows 10 VM that I spun up in Azure, but instead of getting the usual VirusTotal detection info, I’m getting this odd response: VT detection: A…

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Sysinternals
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asked 2025-06-17T21:14:29.9666667+00:00
Taylor Walton 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-06-22T19:20:50.52+00:00
David Dold 16 Reputation points
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PDF Won't Open

I have a PDF file that is behaving very strangely. If I try to open it I get: I have Write permission on that folder. I get the same error if I try to copy and paste it. I don't get that error with any other PDF file. I got the file as an attachment…

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Sysinternals
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asked 2025-06-20T19:23:07.0333333+00:00
Stewart Berman 1 Reputation point
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Windbg - After a windows update in June 2025 windbg is showing this error

After a windows update in June 2025, I am getting this error in windbg when trying to attach to or run a process from windbg. I tried uninstalling the update but still getting this error.

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Sysinternals
Advanced system utilities to manage, troubleshoot, and diagnose Windows and Linux systems and applications.
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asked 2025-06-12T14:49:15.8066667+00:00
H SOHAL 0 Reputation points
edited the question 2025-06-12T14:50:47.7766667+00:00
H SOHAL 0 Reputation points
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I purchased a SSL certificate from Azure, and authenticated it, its called 'flip-cert', now i can't get it onto a keyvault

I purchase an SSL certificate from Azure. I did the godaddy verification and it says it is active and ready. It is called flip-cert. I need to install this on my posit.workbence Ubuntu VM so i can enable https. I can't get the certificate into a…

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Sysinternals
Advanced system utilities to manage, troubleshoot, and diagnose Windows and Linux systems and applications.
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asked 2025-06-11T23:29:22.0966667+00:00
Tom Woolston 0 Reputation points
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RDCMan v3.91 crashes with connecting to Windows 2022 Server

Hi I have no problem connecting to my Windows Server 2022 using the remote desktop client. However, when I use RDCMan it often takes 10 or more tries before it connects. It initially displays a black screen with a rotating blue ring beside the mouse…

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Sysinternals
Advanced system utilities to manage, troubleshoot, and diagnose Windows and Linux systems and applications.
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asked 2025-05-29T15:45:41.5666667+00:00
dCipher 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-06-09T14:41:45.9066667+00:00
dCipher 0 Reputation points
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when running using procmon /terminate log is corrupted

Hello Guys, I'm configuring procmon to run as a scheduled task and then also using another schedule task to terminate it. Both tasks are configured to run with System. Start task has the following arguments: /AcceptEula /LoadConfig…

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Sysinternals
Advanced system utilities to manage, troubleshoot, and diagnose Windows and Linux systems and applications.
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asked 2020-12-31T12:37:44.237+00:00
Miguel Gomes 1 Reputation point
commented 2025-06-05T08:02:50.99+00:00
MICHAL SISKA 0 Reputation points
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sysinternals Remote Desktop Connection Manager - use a web account

Does sysinternals Remote Desktop Connection Manager support the use of a web account to sign into the remote computer? If so, how do I set that up?

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Sysinternals
Sysinternals
Advanced system utilities to manage, troubleshoot, and diagnose Windows and Linux systems and applications.
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asked 2024-08-07T15:02:43.4266667+00:00
James West-Sadler 10 Reputation points
commented 2025-06-03T11:54:18.5966667+00:00
PetrL 0 Reputation points