The annoying KB4532693 patch and temporary profiles

In February 2020 the Windows 10 patch KB4532693 was deployed and caused on some PCs logins on temporary profiles instead of the normal one. Here's something from my experience!

These days I got a request and the client even thought that the computer reinstalled itself which obviously wasn't the case Therefore no data got lost in this case. I read about the patch problem before, so following making some research I tried suggested steps as well:

1) Starting in Safe Mode, reboot in Normal Mode

- Didn't help, same issue

2) Uninstalling KB4532693
- Despite being listed in downloaded updates, it didn't appear in the list "Installed Updates". So to be sure I deleted the update via cmd command:

wusa /uninstall /kb:4532693 /quiet

Following a restart the situation didn't change. The list of temporary profiles gets piled up even more.

As several restarts didn't work either,  I ended up helping myself by creating a new user as admin, logged off and logged in with the new user, copied all the data, configured the profile and restarted a few times to be sure. Additionally I changed some settings in the registry to ensure the new profile logs in automatically.

It was a private laptop anyway with no connection to a domain whatsoever. 

Not the most ideal solution, but seemingly there's yet no official solution for the patch out yet - only the suggestions I mentioned above. Sometimes they help, in my case they didn't, so luckily I could find a workaround by just creating a new user.

MATSHITA BD-RE UJ-225S ATA DEVICE and Windows 10 - a bad combination!

You upgraded to Windows 10 and your DVD/Bluray drive is gone? It can become difficult or even impossible...

In my case it's about the Matshita Bluray drive called 'UJ 225S' in a Medion Akoya P8610. Initially sold with Windows Vista was the system later upgraded to Windows 7. So it's already a few years old. 

Last year there was the possibility to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. The owner of that laptop did it, but he later noticed that his Bluray drive wasn't available anymore. Interestingly in the BIOS it's still there and you can even boot from it. Using a current live Linux distribution to boot you can still see in the device overview.

So what can you do from here? 
A helpful solution which I've seen quite often and it apparently solved the issue in many cases is the following:
1) Go to regedit and select the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/atapi /

2) Create a new key named 'Controller0'

3) Create a new DWORD in Controller0 called EnumDevice1

4) Change the value of EnumDevice1 to 1

5) Restart your computer and your DVD/Bluray device should be back... 

BUT IT DIDN'T WORKED!

I found other suggestions to update the BIOS to version M1.04, but the BIOS was already running with the version M1.08. So that wouldn't make real sense...

ANOTHER IDEA: CHIPSET DRIVER

Maybe it's an idea to update the chipset driver? But there are no official Windows 10 chipset drivers available. You 'just' find the ones for Windows 7. And if you try them with your Windows 10 Medion Akoya laptop... you'll end up having a bluescreen.

Better use system recovery and go back to a date before you tried that. 

CONCLUSION

Basically it's something you end up nowhere. Either go back to Windows 7, use a Linux, use an external drive or maybe even change your optical drive completely. Too bad it's too old and not working with Windows 10, physically it's still very good.

How to handle PDF Creator updates with terminal services

The current PDF Creator version (1.7.1) is already a good solution for being used under terminal services like Windows or Citrix. 

There's only one disturbing thing:The standard setting for an update check appears weekly for every user (!!!). 

Setting under  'Options'

But here you can only change this setting for the current user. That's not ideal for a terminal server.

So how can I change this for every user at this server?

In the registry HKCU/Software/PDFCreator/Program you have the following entry:

The value '2' means 'weekly'. If you change it to '0', it will be changed to 'never'.

If you want this for every user you simply have to set this entry in 

HKUsers/DEFAULT /Software/PDFCreator/Program 

at every terminal server PDF Creator is used.


Problem solved.