I just re-ran NTLite on a friend's Win10 Laptop (Acer brand) to remove reinstalls after a recent (forced) Win10 CU.
I had installed - and activated - NTLite on this laptop in March.
When I ran NTLite today (May 11), I got a notice that there was a newer version of NTLite. Would I like to download and install it?
Normally I do this by hand on my machines. But I said "Yes."
So NTLite updated itself to 2.1.0.7862.
And then it instantly told me that I needed to Activate it again.
I don't often understand this Activation stuff. I had just Activated NTLite in March, with, I think, the code that I bought during the Holiday Special 2021.
(Perhaps this was caused by the jump from NTLite 2.0.x to 2.1.x?)
So I said "No."
I loaded the Live Win partition. (It turns out that I don't have to load Windows to do a Remove Reinstalls. But it's a habit.)
Then I got a message saying:
"Unreadable or unsupported file: C:\Recovery\Customizations\usmt.ppkg"
I don't see a Recovery directory/folder on C: Which I suppose would explain the plain meaning of the error message. (Update: The Recovery directory is there. The problem here is that I have System Files hidden on this Laptop.)
I ran Remove Reinstalls anyway. It seems to have worked, in the sense that NTLite did something, removed some files, and wanted a reboot.
Now, the only other things that I've done to this laptop since rerunning NTLite today was to shrink the Win10 C: partition, create a D: partition, and move NTLite from C: to D:
I don't have a log file to post, because apparently "Remove Reinstalls" uses a different process than the normal Removals process and doesn't create a log file?
So, what's the problem? How do I fix it? And do I need to do anything else to make sure that Remove Reinstalls worked correctly? (I made an image of the entire laptop before doing all this.)
I had installed - and activated - NTLite on this laptop in March.
When I ran NTLite today (May 11), I got a notice that there was a newer version of NTLite. Would I like to download and install it?
Normally I do this by hand on my machines. But I said "Yes."
So NTLite updated itself to 2.1.0.7862.
And then it instantly told me that I needed to Activate it again.
I don't often understand this Activation stuff. I had just Activated NTLite in March, with, I think, the code that I bought during the Holiday Special 2021.
(Perhaps this was caused by the jump from NTLite 2.0.x to 2.1.x?)
So I said "No."
I loaded the Live Win partition. (It turns out that I don't have to load Windows to do a Remove Reinstalls. But it's a habit.)
Then I got a message saying:
"Unreadable or unsupported file: C:\Recovery\Customizations\usmt.ppkg"
I don't see a Recovery directory/folder on C: Which I suppose would explain the plain meaning of the error message. (Update: The Recovery directory is there. The problem here is that I have System Files hidden on this Laptop.)
I ran Remove Reinstalls anyway. It seems to have worked, in the sense that NTLite did something, removed some files, and wanted a reboot.
Now, the only other things that I've done to this laptop since rerunning NTLite today was to shrink the Win10 C: partition, create a D: partition, and move NTLite from C: to D:
I don't have a log file to post, because apparently "Remove Reinstalls" uses a different process than the normal Removals process and doesn't create a log file?
So, what's the problem? How do I fix it? And do I need to do anything else to make sure that Remove Reinstalls worked correctly? (I made an image of the entire laptop before doing all this.)
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