Windows 10: Windows 10 Professional 1909 Update

Our company , Duke Energy, is in the process of updating all of our corporate computers, running Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise, to build update 1909 version: 18363.1139.


One unanticipated problem that we are now experiencing is with an application called Sentinel, produced by PTI Systems. It is a radiation dose monitoring software that we use exclusively for our employees who enter radiation areas on our plant sites. One module in the Sentinel software allows an administrator to register a user with a personal TLD radiation dosimetry monitoring device and print a label with bar scan to affix to the TLD for identifying the user whenever that user goes into a radiation area. The label is printed on a USB-connected Datamax-O'Neill 4212 Mark II label printer. On Windows 10 Professional 1709, this worked like a champ...!


The problem: Ever since we pushed the 1909 update to our computers, we can no longer print these TLD labels to the USB-connected Datamax printer. If I open the printer queue, I can see the output file flash in the queue they're very small so it shouldn't take long at all, then disappear, but no label prints out. I've searched for this problem extensively over the Internet and it appears that this issue is not uncommon. However, I have not found a solution yet.


I have found patches to apply to 1809, 1903 and 1909 that are supposed to take care of this, but it appears that these patches are to rectify an issue stemming from the June 2020 patches v.18363.709? something like that, I no longer have that version in front of me and we are past that version here at Duke. We're at 1909 18363.1139. I've approached our IT analyst for Sentinel; he's supposed to be testing. I've approached developer staffers at PTI Systems; they say they will begin working on testing for this, but they don't have any compatible label printers available... ?


Our workaround currently is to go into Settings and roll back to the previous version of Windows 10 1709 is what this computer was using. We also have a second computer experiencing this issue, but I can't get that one to roll back. In any event, we'd really like for this to work properly on our current build version, 1909, and not have to keep rolling back to 1709...


Does anybody know: Is there any kind of a patch that I can apply that will rectify this problem with USB printing on a Windows 10 Enterprise 1909 v.18363.1139 computer?

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Windows 10 1909 Causes Secondary Hard Drive to not be Recognized

Installing the Windows 10 1909 Update causes my secondary hard drive to not be recognized.

Steps to confirm issue:

• Secondary drive not visible in Windows Explorer
• Secondary drive not visible in device manager
• Secondary drive not visible in disk manager

Steps to replicate issue:

• Installing 1909 update

Steps to resolve issue:

• Uninstall 1909 update

Since updates can only be delayed for so long, an actual fix would be appreciated.

 

User.000 issue after updating to 1909

I'm one of the many people suffering from issues with user profiles after applying Update 1909 to Windows 10. I've read all the threads I can find on the topic here and have followed the suggestions, all to no avail. Any other thoughts are appreciated.

After applying Update 1909, the ProfileImagePath was changed to c:\users\User.000
One file that was always in use and couldn't be removed was left in c:\users\User (can't recall or find the exact file now), so I could never rename or remove the c:\user\User directory.

I followed the multiple suggestions from Brink and others:

• Rebooted at least 6 times
• Enabled hidden Administrator
• Booted into Safe Mode
• Changed ProfileImagePath
• Tried to rename c:\users\User but couldn't because a file was still in use
• Copied all data from c:\users\User.000 into c:\users\User
• Rebooted and had temporary profile
• Followed steps in Brink tutorial to change ImageProfilePath; rebooted with no change
• Restored using Restore Point from before Update 1909 - returned to single profile state (User.000)
• Removed each update that was installed individually and rebooted after each update removal - profile state never changed
• After all updates were removed, repeated the steps above with hidden Administrator, changing profile, etc. - same issue with file in use in c:\users\User
• Followed all steps above with hidden Administrator but without copying files from User.000 to User - same results

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.