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Hi,

after an Upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 on a customer PC sysprep is no longer working. Unfortunataly the error messages in C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\Panther\setuperr.log does not really help to find the root cause:

Error                        pGetUninstallInterfaceCommon: Failed loading the setupplatform, hr = 0x80070666
Error                 SYSPRP RemoveUninstall:Failed to instantiate uninstall interface; hr = 0x80070666
Error                 SYSPRP Sysprep_Clean_Opk:Failed to remove Uninstall; dwRet = 0x666
Error                 SYSPRP ActionPlatform::LaunchModule: Failure occurred while executing 'Sysprep_Clean_Opk' from C:\Windows\System32\spopk.dll; dwRet = 0x666
Error                 SYSPRP SysprepSession::ExecuteAction: Failed during sysprepModule operation; dwRet = 0x666
Error                 SYSPRP SysprepSession::ExecuteInternal: Error in executing action for Microsoft-Windows-Sysprep-SpOpk; dwRet = 0x666
Error                 SYSPRP SysprepSession::Execute: Error in executing actions from C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\ActionFiles\Cleanup.xml; dwRet = 0x666
Error                 SYSPRP RunPlatformActions:Failed while executing Sysprep session actions; dwRet = 0x666
Error      [0x0f0070] SYSPRP RunDlls:An error occurred while running registry sysprep DLLs, halting sysprep execution. dwRet = 0x666
Error      [0x0f00a8] SYSPRP WinMain:Hit failure while processing sysprep cleanup providers; hr = 0x80070666
Error      [0x0f0060] SYSPRP ParseCommands:Found unsupported command line option '/?'
Error      [0x0f00a4] SYSPRP WinMain: Unable to parse command-line arguments to sysprep; GLE = 0x0
Error      [0x0f0060] SYSPRP ParseCommands:Found unsupported command line option '/?'
Error      [0x0f00a4] SYSPRP WinMain: Unable to parse command-line arguments to sysprep; GLE = 0x0

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Powershell

Windows Powershell: CTRL-Space is no longer working

May 6, 2025 Michael Albert

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Hi,

the powershell has a “slimmed down intellisense” to complete commandlet names, functions, .NET types etc.
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Windows knowhow

Windows: Convert an ETL (Event tracing file) into a human readable format

April 22, 2025 Michael Albert

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Hi,

event tracing files, for example produced by wusa.exe log parameter, are binary files. The powershell command let Get-WinEvent couldn’t open it but Windows Eventviewer is able to read those files.
There is also an option to convert ETL files.
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Powershell

Powershell: Simple TCP Client and Server

April 13, 2025 Michael Albert

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these are TCP client and server which can simply used for testing if a specific TCP port is open

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Windows knowhow

Windows: List remaining “pending moves” from an update

January 19, 2025 Michael Albert

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Hi,

outstanding file movements can be shown with Sysinternals pendmoves.exe or via the registry key

PS D:\>  Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager" -Name PendingFileRenameOperations

Michael

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Tag Archives: windows

Windows: sysprep fails with “Failure occurred while executing ‘Sysprep_Clean_Opk’ “

Windows Powershell: CTRL-Space is no longer working

Windows: Convert an ETL (Event tracing file) into a human readable format

Powershell: Simple TCP Client and Server

Windows: List remaining “pending moves” from an update

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