Hi

If I run Sysprep from Audit mode with Generalization ticked and choosing to re-enter Audit mode after the process has ran then when it loads back into Windows the Start Menu is broken and will no longer load.

I have not seen the Start Menu work in Audit mode on either Preview or RTM builds. Fortunately the context menu on the Start Button does work.

Of course, I thought it had worked before but I cannot place it. It is possible it worked after a DVD install, but not after making an image that boots to Audit Mode.

Well Jason,

I am afraid I am a little confused about how the processes that you have experienced.

But Start Menu works at my side, in audit mode:

Regards

I can confirm that issue.

After running Sysprep to "Enter System Audit Mode" with Generalize, causes system to boot with Start menu not working, Search icon not working, with Action center icon (near clock) not working, also with no Egde icon on ne taskbar.

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Well Jason,

I am afraid I am a little confused about how the processes that you have experienced.

But Start Menu works at my side, in audit mode:

R

Jason,

I replied this issue in your another thread:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/5845f992-153b-4fbe-918a-7a3801b628ea/audit-mode-shutdown?forum=win10itprosetup

Regards

Only way I know how to get around that is to select OOBE rather than audit.  Does require Ctrl-Shift-f3 got back in audit mode after using the image.

Sure am glad they tested all this before releasing it ;-)

Only way I know how to get around that is to select OOBE rather than audit.  Does require Ctrl-Shift-f3 got back in audit mode after using the image.

Sure am glad they tested all this before releasing it ;-)

Yeah i've tried this too. Sadly pressing Ctrl + Shift + F3 manually on each image is quite inefficient for us. Doing nearly 100 systems a day this way even if it just takes seconds per system it adds up and Windows 10 deployments already take twice as long as our Windows 7/8.1 images do.

I also tried Generalising to OOBE and putting load to Audit Mode in the Unattend file for the actual deployment - which worked but the start menu was still broken that way :(

Just FYI, the broken start menu is temporary.  Once machine has been resealed and OOBE has been run through, start menu will work again.  Not sure it will help in your situation, but worth mentioning anyway.

That's interesting. So far I've had zero use for the Start Menu while in Audit Mode. What are the things that you need to use in there?

I mostly use the Start Menu context-menu or run (Win+r) while in Audit Mode.

One of our checks is to make sure the software the customer has requested is installed. Simplest way is to check start menu. Secondly - the restart button is there :D - that's pretty key.

I'll try creating the images again and see if the issue is fixed by updates but I don't hold out much hope.