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I threw my “Christmas Cards” George W and Laura in the trash. What a putz!

I didn’t mention that Windows 10 Pro or Windows 11 Pro Licenses are very inexpensive. The “OEM” versions are typically around $5 and the “Retail” versions which I almost always buy are usually less than $10. I am now pleased that I did this because several of the 7 “upgrades” that I have now completed had Retail licenses which means that I can now transfer them to new hardware or virtual machines.

I am constantly rejiggering things in my home network so for me being able to transfer licenses to different machines is a good thing. Windows 10 Pro licenses can be used to upgrade Windows 11 machines. In this way they more versatile which you might expect would make them more valuable, but they are typically a few dollars cheaper.

After now completing 7 installations I have a couple more suggestions if you go this route...

Run the following 2 commands before you image your disk. And then run them again after you install Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC

1. **System File Checker (SFC)**:
- In Command Prompt (Admin), run `sfc /scannow`. This checks for corrupted system files and repairs them.
2. **DISM Tool**:
- Run `DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth` in Command Prompt (Admin) to repair the Windows system image.

Second, I noticed that the release ID in the registry “hack” should be 2009 and not 2H21 as I and the person in the video have told people.

Running Regedit as an administrator navigate to...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

now change to the values to the new ones listed below by double clicking on the Key Names:
Key Name = New Value

CompositionEditionID = IoTEnterpriseS

CurrentBuild =19044

CurrentBuildNumber = 19044

DisplayVersion = 21H2

EditionID = IoTEnterpriseS

ProductName = Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021

ReleaseId = 2009

This error actually does not matter because it gets corrected by itself either during the installation process or by running the two commands in the Command Line that I mentioned above.

After your system is up and running and you have checked for corruption with the commands mentioned above you should then type windows update into the search box or icon nest to your Windows button. There will be 4 more updates that will not take all that long... After that your system will be completely updated.

As soon as you are sure everything is working right run Microsoft’s included Disk Cleanup to get back around 30GBs of hard drive space. In my case this actually made the new installation take up less space than the original. This also illustrates the reason doing the installation this way takes so long...

People who wait until after Microsoft shuts down the servers that it currently has up and running, will have a more difficult and time consuming trying to find all of the updates that we are currently getting installed automatically.

Thanks for the quick reply... there is a lot of misinformation spread in other forums and on YouTube about how this works. There is a tiny bit of work and quite a bit of patience involved in this transition. But I am working on reinstalling a Windows 11 Pro virtual machine in Hyper-V and it is significantly more complicated.

The problem is that I have been a computer and electronics hobbyist for most of the past 50 years and despite spending a lot of time assisting others... I still sometimes have a difficult time judging what others are capable of achieving.

This error actually does not matter because it corrects itself... probably during the install, but possibly when sfc /scannow and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealt are run as an administrator in the command line. It turns out that the release ID in the registry should be 2009 and not 2H21 as I and the person in the video have told people to do.

Running Regedit as an administrator navigate to...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

now change to the values to the new ones listed below by double clicking on the Key Names:
Key Name = New Value

CompositionEditionID = IoTEnterpriseS

CurrentBuild =19044

CurrentBuildNumber = 19044

DisplayVersion = 21H2

EditionID = IoTEnterpriseS

ProductName = Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021

ReleaseId = 2009

I am going to write up a summary probably this evening. After installing and licensing Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC seven times, and now having numerous friends and relatives wanting me to upgrade their machines remotely... I have come up with a few more pearls of wisdom.

I have received positive feedback and at least one person here has told me he did an install and is happy with it. My guess is that as in the past, when Microsoft figures out that people are doing an end run around their evil intentions that they will try to take some type of action to keep it from continuing to happen. I suppose that the more people who take this route the more likely that they are to do something about it... So, my evangelizing on this subject is probably ending with this thread.

This solution creates an operating system that behaves so closely what people are currently using that it is quite amazing. The only thing that I have done to make sure that everything is copesetic in my installs after all the updates have been installed is run: sfc /scannow or DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealt in the command line as an administrator. After that I run Microsoft’s included Disk Cleanup to get back around 30GBs of hard drive space.

Welcome to the thread. We were all wondering when you would show up.

Microsoft does not care a bit about Linux builds, three of which I use every day in my home server hobby lab. There are close to a Billion machines still running Windows 10. Microsoft wants to force their users to migrate to Windows 11 and new hardware. What they do not want is for people to find solutions that will enable them to keep using Windows 10 safely on their old hardware.

It is you who are doing the bidding of your Microsoft overlords whether you realize it or not. I am very comfortable using commands and running routines in a terminal in Linux. Many people here do not even know what that means... Yet if you do not understand how to use a terminal in Linux it severely hampers your ability to use the operating system... Or maybe you are an Apple fan boy who enjoys throwing money at technological toys that you do not really understand. Which is it?

“The driver of the Tesla, Romeo Lagman Yalung, had activated the vehicle’s autopilot feature, which he trusted based on Tesla’s claims that the software was “safer than a human driver.”

It makes little differences how many advanced safety features that a new car has... The “autopilot feature” was obviously not quite ready for prime time.

I am sorry I forgot to put the link to the one that I purchased.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPGYRL4C

It is nothing out of the ordinary and I don’t think that the backlighting is especially powerful, but it works well for what I do with it. I love the stand that came with it for many purposes.

Although I started buying and selling on eBay long ago and still purchase many items through them often... for new items I prefer Amazon for the fast free shipping, easy returns and better warranty coverage.

I made the mistake of purchasing a large Chinese backpack blower through Walmart.com last year. The thing has been sort of a nightmare. I didn’t realize that it was coming from a private seller and my return options were basically non-existent.

This is the one that I purchased. It is a 14” with 1920x1200 native resolution. It was on sale at the time. It came with a very nice stand that would cost at least $20 from most sources. I like that it can be powered and get its video signal through a USB3 cable in addition to its HDMI connectors. It did come with a power adapter, but I have never used it. The small size is actually very helpful for the purposes that I use it for.

I have a nice little 1920x1200 portable touch screen monitor. The touch screen feature adds about $20 to the price. I use it with my little Ryzen based mini-computer and also as a second monitor with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. It is one of those things that you don't realize how much you needed it until after you get it. Mine came with a very nice articulating stand, but I usually use it with an adjustable tablet holder.

I completed the “upgrade” to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise last night on the “ancient” Lenovo laptop from 2010. The old wireless adapter in it does not recognize the 5ghz band so it made downloading all of the updates more time consuming.

After the installation finished the icons on the desktop were rearranged every time that I rebooted. This is a sure sign of corrupted system files. So, I keyed in “command prompt” in the Windows 10 search box. I chose the option to run the command prompt as an administrator. I then ran the system file checker by keying in:

sfc /scannow

It found errors and corrected them. I then ran the DISM tool which repairs the Windows system image by keying in:

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

These commands take just a few minutes to complete.

Then when rebooted the system worked perfectly. After that I entered Disk Cleanup into the Windows 10 search box which took back approximately 30GB of space mostly by erasing the old system.

The old girl is doing really well now, better than it has performed in a long, long time.

I should have mentioned in my original post that running these two commands is almost a necessity after installing a new operating system over the top of an older system.

I am currently installing Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC on my “travel laptop”. “It is an ancient Lenovo G560 from 2010. The original case basically fell apart. I had upgraded the processor to an Intel Core i5-520M and increased the memory to 8GB of DDR-3 memory. When I migrated to a better case that I salvaged from an identical but screwed up model from eBay, I added a new 500GB SSD. This gave it lots of extra pep and I added the full complement of Microsoft Office programs to it, along with some imaging editing software and Ubuntu Studio in a dual boot setup. I also added a dual USB3 PCMIA card long ago which greatly speeds up imaging the SSD hard drive. It also has a physical DVD writer that can be used to boot from Hyren’s boot CD/DVD.

Most of the value is in the effort that I have invested in keeping the old gal going. If it gets lost or damaged on a trip it will be no big deal... but to me it is worth the effort to upgrade the OS to one where I will continue to receive security updates.

I just finished imaging the hard drive to a USB3 flash drive. Now I am going to modify the registry and then install the new OS from the USB Drive. I will let you know how this goes on this ancient (15 year old) laptop which originally came with Windows 7.

And I am happy that you are pleased with your laptop.

We are both perfectly happy with it. Most of our laptops do not have especially bright displays.

The monitor in my “gaming laptop” runs at 144HZ. I really cannot tell the difference and usually turn it down to save power and performance for use it where I can detect a difference.

Some people become accustomed to certain features and begin to believe that they need them for a pleasant experience. 60hz is more than good enough for my eyes and perception.

You have found a very good buy, but I purchased a Dell Inspiron 16” Touchscreen Laptop - AMD Ryzen 7 8840U - FHD (1920 x 1200) - Windows 11 on a Black Friday special for Costco last November. She loves it.

We paid $500 for it was brand new and the Ryzen 7 8840U is far more capable by every measure than the i7-1185g7. This is especially true when you compare the AMD Radeon 780M integrated graphics to the integrated Iris Xe graphics. I have three computers with three different generations of Ryzen processors the capabilities of the integrated graphics in all of them have amazed me.

I have laptop with a 13th Gen Intel Core i7-13700HX and a GeForce RTX 4060 that I use for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. The GeForce RTX 4060 is very capable, but boy can it suck down the watts when it is under load.

4K HDMI has resolution, refresh rate, and performance that is more than good enough for my aging eyes.

That is what changing the registry values that I posted actually does... I could easily have written a Powershell script that would have done the same thing. But this is not the same as actually installing the operating system and activating it. This is not a valid or workable solution that will do anything but foul up your system in unpleasant and unpredictable ways.

You can verify this by running the following administrative script in Powershell. This script will not change any values but it will retrieve and display the current Windows edition information without modifying anything. If you look at the script it simply goes to the part of the registry that I modified and reports back the values.

# PowerShell script to display current Windows edition information
$os = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem
$edition = (Get-ItemProperty -Path “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion”).ProductName
$build = (Get-ItemProperty -Path “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion”).CurrentBuild
$releaseId = (Get-ItemProperty -Path “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion”).ReleaseId

Write-Host “Operating System: $edition”
Write-Host “Build: $build”
Write-Host “Release ID: $releaseId”

If you have further information that contradicts this, please share it.

That is not an accurate or likely synopsis of the situation and illustrates only foolish speculation. Microsoft will certainly not be trying to get bank machine or vending machine owners to update to windows 11 with completely inappropriate hardware.

I should have given you credit earlier. The first I heard of using Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 as Desktop OS was from you in a thread that I posted in February.

Windows 10 has a year (8 months) left to live – but are users prepared to upgrade to Windows 11?

“To: fireman15

Just get LTSC IoT. Good till 2032."

122 posted on 2/24/2025, 12:14:46 PM by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4299866/posts?q=1&;page=101

I had bought into the lie that it was not suitable for desktop and laptop users. Thanks for putting me on this path. I started using it shortly afterwards, but it was not until a few days ago that I realized that you could install it over the top of a previous Windows installation and still have all of the functionality and features of Windows 10 Pro.

I started having difficulties with my laptop's IR facial recognition camera months ago. After “upgrading” using this method it started working fine again. I assumed it was a corrupted driver, but nothing that I tried fixed it. Now for whatever reason it works fine again.