Category Archives: Windows 10

Windows 10

Installing Drivers That Aren’t Digitally Signed in Window 10

Sometimes you may want to use an older piece of equipment, like a scanner, on your PC.  When you try to install the driver you get an error that the drivers are not digitally signed.  At this point the install stops, and you aren’t able to use your equipment.  Don’t worry there is way around this issue.

Steps to Follow to install drivers that are not digitally signed:

  1. Click the Start menu and select Setting.
  2. Click on Update and Security.
  3. Click on Recovery.
  4. Click on Restart now under the Advanced Startup section.
  5. Click on Troubleshoot.
  6. Click Advanced options.
  7. Click Startup Settings.
  8. Click on Restart.
  9. On the Startup Settings screen press 7 to disable the driver signature enforcement.

You will now be able to install your device driver without any issues.  Reboot your PC to re-enable driver signature enforcement.

Windows 10, Windows Server

Computers Not Reporting To WSUS

I had an issue where I had several computer that were downloading and updating from the WSUS server, but they were not reporting.  I could see the in WSUS the computers checking in, but the last report date was not changing.  To resolve the issue I performed the following steps on the PC

  1.  Open a command prompt as administrator.
  2. net stop wuauserv
  3. Open regedit as administrator
  4. Delete the following keys
    1. HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate \SusClientId
    2. HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate \SusClientIdValidation
  5. Back in the command prompt – netstart wuauserv
  6. wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow
  7. Go into update settings and check for updates
  8. Back in the command prompt – wuauclt /reportnow (This step is not necessary, but it should force the PC to report now instead of waiting 20 minutes)

After performing the above steps I check WSUS to make sure the PC is reporting.

Windows 10

Install .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows 10

I have found that after performing a clean install of Windows 10 that sometimes .NET Framework 3.5 is not installed.  I have run into scenarios where even though I had 4..6 installed I still needed 3.5.

If you have a non domain computer the quickest way to install 3.5 is to open Programs and Features and click on Turn Windows features on or off.  This will open another where you can turn on .NET Framework 3.5.

If you are on a domain computer, specifically a domain that is using WSUS, then the above procedure will probably not work.  This is due to the fact that the above procedure uses Windows Update to install the program.  Since WSUS redirects the PC to a different server the install package is not available.  To install .NET Framework in this scenario you will need a windows 10 install disc.  Insert the disc into you drive and open a Command Prompt as an admin.  In the Command Prompt window type the following command and press Enter:

dism /online /add-package /packagepath:E:\sources\sxs\microsoft-windows-netfx3-ondemand-package.cab

Make sure to replace E with the drive letter of you device.

Windows 10

Windows 10 – 1607 WSUS Problems

Did you upgrade your Windows 10 PC to 1607 also known as the anniversary update, only to find that it won’t install updates from your WSUS server?  If so join the club.  After some research, it appears that Microsoft figured out the issue and put in in their September cumulative update KB3189866.

To get this update to my network computers I had 2 options.  Since I couldn’t  get the affected PC’s to retrieve updates from my WSUS server, I either had to install the update manually or have each PC download the patch from Microsoft’s update servers.   I chose to manually install the patch since I could not afford the bandwidth required to have each machine downloading updates from the internet at once.

Once I manually installed the KB3189866 update, each computer was able to contact my WSUS server, download the remaining updates and install them.