I need to retrieve a regedit key informations.

[Adelin]

Hello,

I'm asking help of the community for a special quest:

I need to retrieve Name, Relative path, and other informations from regedit ( registry / rush)

about

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{F1B32785-6FBA-4FCF-9D55-7B8E7F157091}

This is the last Known folders error about C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local  path, even if it does exist in both Users, and windows folder, i still get the error.

To fix the other folders errors, i created related folder to the error shown inside systemprofile.

It's about 0x80070005 Known Folders event 1002 error

Thanks you very much

[Adelin]

No doubpt about it, but when in event viewvers on different computers, since windows 7 exist, on a new windows install you still have Known Folders issue

Then Microsoft did something wrong.

it's not missing folders, it's just things like My Documents, when you put %My Documents% it point to the true folder , it's the purpose of Known Folders.

Thing is there are bugs, where it's asking for folders already existing, or pointing to folders that should not exist anymore since windows 10 even on a new install.

I will disable Windows Search temporary and check if those errors continue, as some people pointed to Windows search looking for repertorys , i even recreated the search index, and tryed to repair it.

Reintalling windows is not a problem, but on linux, when you have something to troubleshoot, you almost every ttime find a solution, everything can be replaced or fixed.

Windows has tools, fixs, and even way to repair or recreate services , loading dll ...

But it is not as resilient as Linux distributions, when you are free to repair almost anything.

Ok i'm a noob for informatic, but stil.

If having a problem with WinRe or something related to EFI partition on windows.

No need ot entirely reinstall windows, just recreating the EFI partition with the right commands, and for WIN RE, pointing to the right partition with right parameters will fix it.


Oh and by the way, WINRE has taken more place over different windows 10 version.

Before just before the Windows partition, now it's at the end of the disk, so Windows can extend WINRE if needed.

I had a case where i had to create myself at the end of the hard drive the WINRE partition, disabling the previous one, retrieve the lost space at begin of disk, and pointing to the new WINRE pârtition,

In Fact, Windows was not capable of doing it itself. It just created WINRE at Windows folder, but when pointing to the previous Partition at begining of the hard drive, It failed to put the WINRE files, because of not enough partition size.

Microsoft, are doing errors themselves.

But on WIndows 11 and newers win,dows 10 versions, WIN RE at end of the system drive, is the right solution done by Microsoft, so they can at any moment increase winre partition size.

There are lots of things like this that changed over years, and It's not 100% the user fault.

I'm angry even if its not pointing at me, that only solution with Windows, compared to Linux, is full reinstall / format hard drive, and save files on another hard drive / cloning for backup .

ANyway i agree in case of Windows, most of thez time only solution is Full reinstall :(

[Adelin]

Hello,

I was too much proud, i wouldn't speak here about something strange that happend after using a full defrag with Defraggler done in safe mode.

I had ok boot time, with fast boot in windows disabled, but after defrag, it took each boot 4 minutes.

I had done chkdsk /r, SFC / scannow, Dism .../ Restore... Stopped Sysmain, remove anything into prefetch folder, enabled sysmain rebooted then used
Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks to process idle task, like recreating layout.ini inside prefetch.

Nothing worked.

I used Seatool like i sayd to check the disk, Smart was good, Autotest of firecuda good, full surface repair, good. I already had a failing Firecuda with just one sector replaced, and Seagate told me the error code and asked me to ask for a technical support, and i got a new firecuda before.

Ok so back to the current firecuda with windows 11

After reading all the messages again, i was in despair.
I wanted to format the drive and full reinstall windows 11.

Then i found a fix:

I disabled pagefile , rebooted, reapplyed let windows manage the page file for me.

And know what ?

Boot time is back to what i got on windows 10.

Ok so maybe it would have mean windows installation was borked, and something like a software or driver or service, did something bad to pagefile or whatever thing happend.

But it's another reason for me, to think troubleshooting before reinstalling, would be the best idea.

Ok so Even with another new firecuda ( the current one) and a full windows reinstall ( windows 10 home) i was not able to get again with fast boot in windows disabled, a boot to desktop time of 20 seconds.

Windows 10 version 1909, since this update, windows boot is pretty slow.

I am tempted to say it has maybe a link to a new feature in windows 10 that was implemented:

Measured boot.

If i check event viewer, there is a relative normal message i got even back by windows 1909 if i remember, about some files on EFI partition, locked because of something related to security.

And an error about TPM not been present.

Those errors are normal, as thoses are just saying, that for measured boot, a tpm is required, secureboot enabled ( done) .

One funny thing is in windows 11, i can activate Memory integrity, even if it does say : Require a tpm 2.0 off course i just disabled it yesterday, as i don't have the hardware required to obtain good performance with memory integrity, but Microsoft is saying things, without explaining it's about performance there is a requirement, and not because memory integrity would not run.

Back to boot time, I can't diagnostic why with Three different windows installation, and i did further windows 10 reinstall, Windows has problem with a SSHD to boot till desktop under 30 seconds like it did with Windows 7 and windows 10 before 1909.

If i enable Fastboot, shutdown then start boot time is almost instant. as Kernel is already loaded with all parameters from registered files into hyberfile.

I think windows 2004 and windows 11 was built around SSD in mind.

Something must do too much IO, even after a new install and reboot 10 time after sysmain complete the prefetch job each boot. ( waiting two minutes in desktop )

There muse be some sort of wait list for disk operations, while SSD would run in instant.

Safe mode to Desktop initiate, would boot fast indeed.

One of my friend had the same behavior on him own laptop, he found since one of windows 10 upgrade everything was slower.

One day he used the full repair partition process to have a clean windows 10, but bersions like windows 2004 had still slow boot.

I tryed an old hard drive to boot Kde Neon, and boot to desktop was very very fast.

Same for my mother's laptop that has a very slow hard drive and only 4Gb ddr3 system memory.

Why do i post this long message here ?

Maybe it's possible at certain point, Intel, Amd, and other manufacturer, doesn't upgrade some drivers for newer windows version, it may be less compatible with the new windows 10 versions, as some fix would be needed ?

So it's why even a full windows reinstall, would not help.

Buying a new computer, even without SSD, in theory should fix compatibility problems even with msinfo32, i see every categorys as ok, and there is no hardware fault.

[Adelin]

Something Scarry happend, as i did a refresh install even if it was not needed.

All the usb ports was not working, only in WinRE i could use commands.
Safe mode was useless .

But i found a fix:

Disable temporary in uefi bios XHCI hand off ( intel) Then, everything would work, )

In device manager, show hidden device, and clear everithing that is grey ( ghost)

Then do the same thing once Xhci hanhoff was set to Auto smart mode.

Switching to legacy Usb would not work.

But disabling Xhci handoff, renamed entries for all usb devices and huds inside device manager.

As i couldn't boot to windows without keyboard and mouse tested on all ports, even after a bios reset / cmos reset.

I tryed to open regedit from winre loading hive from System in system32\config.

But it is just used to export reg keys you have then to change the path to point to hklcalmachine instead of new reg key used to load the rush.
And off course once new reg key is created, load it from windows in safe mode or normal mode, what i couldn't do wxithout usb.

I tryed Ps/2 port with usb adaptater, the mouse or keyboard at boot would light on, but not work inside windows or bios.

ANyway key i wanted to delete was in enum, some usb directory.

What i have to say, is thjere was no possible way to do a refresh update without desktop access to launch the installer, And win re give only option to delete all apps.

This is where i have to say, windows can, bork itself from refresh update / upgrade.

And well cloned hard drive is the solution, but it was too old backup.

Full reinstall in this case would have helped ;)

Windows is really a complicated os.

[Adelin]

Edit, good news updating the KB5006746 through microsoft update catalog worked perfectly.
Everything look fine on the computer.

have a nice week :)


Ok i did a big mistake when i had no keyboard no mouse, it was to uninstalls windows updates from windows reparation environment.

It broke the device manager devices. but a simple refresh this time restored everything.

Known folders have errors everytime i do a refresh install, zas it delete custom folders i did in windows system32 config systemprofiles so by the end, microsoft has really a bug.

By the way i can't install KB5006746 there is a blue exclamation mark + circle in windows update but it doesn't tell why.