Windows 10: Some settings blocked 23H2 upgrade! Hosts file? Non-admin user? Isolation core?...

Hi everyone, it happened that my system was not eligible for the 23H2 upgrade. Windows Update said to do nothing and to wait for the update to be available, but the "More information" link took me to a web page which warned that some unspecified "blocks" were preventing the upgrade. However.Premise: my system was configured like this: my user profile used for the upgrade to 23H2 did NOT have administrator privileges; in fact there was a second Administrator profile with privileges that I had created only to prevent malicious files from being installed without permission when I'm on my user

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modifying hosts file for non admin users

I have edited the win8.1 hosts file successfully while logged in with admin rights

When I am logged in as admistrator, the entries to the host file work in the browser.

However, when I am logged in as a non admin user, the host entries do not work.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to provide the hosts file entries for non admin users?

Thanks in advance,

Beverly Howard

 

Core Isolation preventing a driver from loading

The driver "gdvr3.sys" was causing core isolation to turn off. After turning it back on and restarting, get the message that Core Isolation has blocked the driver from loading. However, it is not showing up under problems when I look under core isolation details. Not sure what next steps need to be.

 

Core isolation settings greyed out by admin

Hi. I need to be able to turn this on and off when i want, as i could before. By looking at msinfo32 i can see its on, but i still want to be able to change the setting in settings. I know i can disable it elsewhere but i don't want it greyed out in settings, help me fix it.