Posts Tagged: windows 10

0 Getting old scanners working with Windows 10 64bit

Posted 29^th December 2019 by Jon Scaife & filed under Windows.

Many years back I wrote an article about how to get old scanners working with Windows 7 x64. I recently upgraded the PC connected to the scanners to Windows 10 and was faced with the same challenge all over again. Amazingly the same tricks worked and both scanners are now working! Below I detail precisely how to achieve this.
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1 Touchpad settings on Sony Vaio VPCSB

Published 15^th December 2019 by Jon Scaife & filed under Windows. Last updated 2nd February 2024.

My old man has a Sony Vaio VPCSB laptop, a 13.3″ model that is now about 10 years old but thanks to an SSD and extra RAM is still more than adequate for today’s demands. I recently upgraded it to Windows 10, despite no help at all from Sony, and ran into an issue with the touchpad having all the silly Windows 10 swiping and scrolling turned on by default with no obvious way to turn it off.
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0 Windows 7 to 10 upgrade error 0x8007001f

Posted 27^th November 2019 by Jon Scaife & filed under Windows.

I was recently trying to upgrade a Windows 7 PC to Windows 10 but after several reboots the windows 10 installation was failing with an error “The installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during REPLACE_OC operation” with code 0x8007001f — 0×20006.
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0 Adding drivers to windows 10 boot image on WDS on Server 2012 R2

Posted 25^th September 2018 by Jon Scaife & filed under Windows.

I have enough PCs in the house that I set up a WDS server to make it easier to reinstall windows if any of them go wrong. They have a lot of different hardware and so I needed to add some drivers to the boot image which is from a Windows 10 retail DVD. However, I got an error when trying to add them because the version of DISM used by WDS on server 2012 is older than the version required by Windows 10 images
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0 Windows Media Center on Windows 10

Published 23^rd September 2015 by Jon Scaife & filed under Windows Media Center. Last updated 28th September 2015.

With the launch of Windows 10 Microsoft has officially killed off Windows Media Center. However, Windows Media Center was found in the early builds of Windows 10 and nothing fundamental to Windows 10 is incompatible with Media Center. This begs the question: Can Media Center be added in to Windows 10? The answer: yes!
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