Multi-OEM/Retail Project {MRP} - Mk3

Thank you woarke, looks like the QT is parsing correctly and picked up on HP in #1.

 

updated info

Just a note to say that a updated version of the project will be available soon , doing some extra testing then will be compiling it all ready for uploading

The main code is the same, just streamlined the cleanup process and made it more 'modular' for ease of any additional features in the future as the Windows 10 OS changes I can adapt the project faster.

A BIG thanks to BALTAGY for his help testing almost as many revisions as I have lol.

Feature added:

+ Remove defaultuser0 if found and also corrected the registry so that the Winver.exe screen now shows the username instead of defaultuser0.


- A feature NOT active is a rename of the system drive to the name of the OS installed such as Windows_10_Pro. As some OEM's name the drive I added this in but for now it is not active so the drive name is blank as it was before, so is a 'possible' add-on feature if you would like it added.

Mx

 

Good question!

Hopefully here is the answer (or at least how the Query Tool works).

#12 BIOS MODE is checked against a parsed output of Msinfo32.exe, as most reports show they are using MBR for HDD partition information it will be classed as Legacy. Plus CSM must of been set to legacy non Win8/10, or the motherboard has a non UEFI bios.

If they are using UEFI mode and CSM set to Win8/10 only, then it should display [GPT-Secured Boot Enabled] or [GPT-Secured Boot Disabled] depending if secure boot is on/off.

This is only for the Query Tool display output and the information is not used in the Project itself at the moment.

 

@Mr.X this has been added works nice, took a while and a few attempts [ 7 !! ] to get it to play nicely with the project script but perseverance paid off lol.

Knew that script would come in handy one day, saves doing it manually. plus if M$ finally fix that the project just ignores the removal section.

 

The moment you all been waiting for......

The updated Project is now available for download, see download link in first OP. Please read the change log for details.

Windows 10 users note you are no longer forced logged out before the 'Lets Start...' message, this will have to be done manually, from feedback it seems RS1 can do odd things if the setup has not fully completed first and force logged out, like apps and start menu glitches.

I too noticed this when using VM's slowed down to mimic a slower type of PC so to prevent any problems the log out is now up to you to do when you are ready.

Please do this when you are as this allows the user pic and log on background to be fully active. I had wrote a timed logout script that would pop up once the desktop appeared to inform you of the automatic log off, but RS1 seemed to ignore this and forced logged out anyway!

Vista/7/8.x is not affected.

 

@woarke

I see the MSDM key was installed yet i am guessing the 'key' was originally for home/core (win8.x/10) or possibly not online in time for project to check activation?

For User-40.png, yes for Win10 that is correct, because the OS up scales to that 480x480 size if your picture is smaller than that size. So the files used in the project are bigger size/dimensions to match the OS's new user pic style or they look 'grainy'.

The original png files are smaller because they are simple vector type pictures and have more compressible data plus being 40x40 originally.

I have not touched the OEM's folder pictures - mainly because i'm not very good with images lol.

By looking at the build version was this a 'editied' ISO?, ie one with updates integrated?

As it is known sometimes modified ISO's can cause failures within the project, hence probably why the user-32/48/192 have failed to be replaced.

I ask because the project was designed/tested to fully work with baseline Win 10 ISO's ie 14393.0.

defaultuser0 not shown, wonder if M$ have finally fixed that with an update

But as long as it worked that is good to know

 

As they say, a picture says a 1000 words lol. -- user-40 is replaced by USER810.bmp which is the advanced logon user pic, i think.

 

As i had a few hours spare yesterday i set about converting all the USER810.bmp files to png format within the OEM's folder, in doing so, it made noticeably smaller file sizes compared with BMP type.

However, when re-compressing the OEM's.7z, even with ultra compression, the archive was ~4mb bigger (making ~32mb instead of 28mb).

Upon investigation because the png format seems to be highly compressed, the files can not be compressed further, due to way archive programs work it increased the final zipped file!

So instead of making the folder bigger (compressed), thereby making the project download larger, i have left it as it was.

Windows 8.x/10 uses the renamed bmp to png and not cause any problems - if m$ changes this in the future i have adapted the project to compensate to use USER810.png if it is available or use the bmp version.

Also fixed the odd spelling mistakes that crept in, Editon is now Edition.

This will all be added for the next project update when the time comes to make a new version.

For now while it is all working as it should, (fingers crossed), the current downloadable project is unchanged.

 

No worries woarke, i was just wondering, as long as everything looks and works ok.

On windows 10 the failed pics *should* not cause any problems for the main user as they will just be using the default ones within Windows.

 

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