DeaconFrost

I've found that the Fedora Media Writer works great for any Linux .iso files. I believe it has a portable version, too. If not, just have a friend with a working computer make the USB drive for you.

If this is a business, you should already have a trusted reseller or vendor you deal with. A legitimate business server has absolutely nothing in common with a personal computer tower. Nothing. Experience with one means absolutely nothing with the other. If this is a business, make the right decision and go with one that has the warranty and support. I can't recommend Dell PowerEdges enough.

If you are like me and have the free version of the ESXI license, Veeam isn't going to be very useful. Veeam requires the paid version of ESXi. I believe there are other tools out there, but all come with various limitations if you don't have a paid license.

One of our development teams mandates MacBook Pros running Windows 10. Don't ask, but it makes absolutely no sense and is a complete waste of money, given they don't ever log in to OSX. That being said, it works perfectly fine.

So then go ask your local IT staff if they mind you putting Steam and some games on the laptop. Easiest, simple solution. A software developer should be able to handle that, and disable items from running at start up, without messing anything up.

We have one specific user who locks her account out several times a day. There's no rhyme or reason why. I've done remote sessions with her to assist in updating her password. I've cleared all cached credentials from Credential Manager. I've disabled every scheduled task that ran as her domain account. There's nothing showing in the event logs for any of her lockouts. We have Solarwinds monitoring in place that knows the lockout comes from her laptop (as opposed to her phone).I'm completely at a loss for this, and several of us have tried with no luck. There's no pattern to the time in which she locks out.Is there some kind of software I can load on her laptop that will give me some details, such as what applications or process is causing this to happen?

It's possible that the drive was corrupted somehow by ejecting from the Vista machine. There are partition repair tools, but I would probably start with something like Partition Wizard to see what the current state of the drive is.

Just use the Windows Media Creation tool to make the USB drive. It's as easy as can be. As for licensing, the Windows 7/8 free upgrade still works, so use an old unused license key to activate the new setup.

Right-click on the Windows icon, choose Computer Management. Then, under Event Viewer, find Windows Logs. I'd check the System first, and then maybe Application. You can filter by critical errors, if you want. Those will often give clues as to what's going on with a system. My comment regarding punctuation was meant to help us help you. You will get more responses and better quality responses if we are able to clearly read about your issue.

We've been giving you the explanations and help from the beginning. It's a security issue, but it was explained how to circumvent it. First response.

So use a password. I lock my work computer every time I step away from my desk. You get into a rhythm typing in your password. I'd be willing to guarantee I log in more frequently, and it's not an issue. That being said, if I hated typing in a password that much, I think I'd drop down on the overclock a little. Those were fun days when I cared about pushing numbers in benchmarks and games, but now I focus on actually using my computers. To each his own, but I couldn't justify an overclock if it meant I couldn't run the computer.

Punctuation makes a world of difference when asking others to help. It seems, I think, that you've done some troubleshooting yourself. However, don't just assume a PSU isn't the problem because it's rated high enough for your needs. It still could be bad. Can you play others games without crashing? You may want to consider a stress test, like a benchmark, to push the system and see if you can make it crash. If so, then I'd start to blame the PSU or overheating. Have you monitored your temps?

There's nothing to Google, to be honest. That's how it works. No computer should be set to autologon or use blank passwords anymore. I don't understand the avoidance of passwords. How often are you rebooting or logging in and out?

A clean install is always the safer method, so that could be considered "doing it right". However, the upgrade has worked well for every one that I've done. Much better than previous versions. Never hurts to have your data backed up first, though.

I wouldn't call it going overboard. I'd consider it common sense. I'm not sure if you are in to Retro gaming, but you can discuss emulation all you want, including links to the emulators. As soon as you start posting links to roms, the sites get shutdown. Both the forums and the unrelated sites hosting the roms.

I have 400 servers around the world. 3 are physical and the rest are virtual, either cloud-hosted in AWS or running on a vBlock. No idea why there's still so much misinformation about virtualization. It's 2019.

Boot to the Windows 10 installer. Hit Shift + F10 to get a command prompt. Run diskpart. Then, at the diskpart prompt, type list disk. Then select disk x where x is the correct drive. Make sure you pick the correct drive. Then, type clean and hit enter. Then type exit, then enter, then exit. Continue with your Windows 10 install.

As someone who's also learning, my best advice is to pick a common one, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, then install it and use it. I say to stick with a common one because you have much better results when Googling a "how to do x" type of thing. Linux runs very well in a VM, so you don't necessarily need to have it on a dedicated machine.

LogMeIn used to have a free license for 10 computers. I loved it because I didn't need a viewer application. I've been searching for something that would allow me to connect via a web-browser with similar functionality, but I haven't found anything that's a suitable replacement.

I think you are over thinking this process while sprinkling in some misinformation as well. Online sync apps work very well, provided you have a stable internet connection. There are plenty of quality ones out there. I use pCloud because it gives me more space than DropBox, but has native Windows and Linux clients. You can find a way to sync the two devices over a local network without an internet connection, but that's no different than setting up network shared folders. You can't do it without that or an internet connection. I don't think you're understanding the limitations here, and that's causing you to eliminate workable solutions. You also don't want to boot two different hardware systems from the same drive. That's a lot of corruption to be had with needing to have drivers installed each time you swapped back and forth. If it's that much of a hassle and you don't want to go out over an internet connection, then get a NAS.

It's very possible that current corrupt system fails could cause an update to fail. Try running sfc /SCANNOW from an elevated prompt.

Who said RAID5 isn't a good solution? If you only had one drive die and it was replaced, you should be fine. The array should rebuild. If not, you either swapped the wrong drive or you had a controller failure. RAID5 is perfectly fine for a home server, but RAID never was and never is a backup solution.

It's been my experience that desktop OSes don't run on legitimate server hardware as well as a Server OS. If you search some forums, you can get legitimate Windows Server 2016 licenses for pretty cheap. Or, go with a compatible Linux build. Check that you are using the latest BIOS as well.

Do you have any old, unused Windows 7 or 8 license keys? Those will work fine, too.

That's usually a sign of a bad or corrupt install media. As suggested, try a 2.0 port or try recreating the USB flash drive.