Can't get out of Audit Mode Windows 7 Home Premium.

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Hello,

I have a laptop from Dell Inspirion 5748 that came preinstalled with Windows 7 Home Premium. I've been using it and have an Administrator account set up. Now, I'm trying to do the windows 10 upgrade and keep getting an error that Windows can't install in Audit mode. I never put the PC in Audit mode so not sure how to get out of it. Of course Dell customer service is not helpful. I tried the registry key fix changing the ImageState to blank and restarting and I'm still in Audit Mode. I've even tried to command line oobe and set up a new user, its still in audit mode. Nothing is popping up at the start screen as some people report sysprep.exe. Is there another way to get out of it?

Fixes I've attempted so far:

1 Editing registry key at ImageState in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\State Select Modify.Delete the value and Click OK. - Doesn't work
2. Computer Management\System Tools\Local Users and Groups\Groups - Doesn't work as the Local user options are not available in Windows 7 Home Premium.
3. sysprep/oobe - Created a new user and used it. Still in audit mode.
 
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Ok this is what worked and I didn't have to do a clean install:



This is what Finally helped me:

1. Go Windows+R or regedit.exe on start menu

2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\Status\Auditboot and make sure its set to zero.

3. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\Status\SysprepStatus\Cleanupstate and change value to 7 as well as GeneralizationState to 7
4. Reboot.

Make sure you backup your registry key because I haven't seen this solution thus messing around with those entries thus far anywhere and kind of just stumbled across it clicking on things today. It worked and I was finally able to upgrade to Windows 10 without doing a clean install. And everything seems to be working fine.

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try this

go to --> HKLM\SYSTEM\Setup
modify the CmdLine string by deleting any values present.

set the following DWORD values to 0
OOBEInProgress
RestartSetup
SetupPhase
SetupType
 
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Tried this too. Not sure if it needs to be set to hexadecimal or decimal though. Currently all Dword values are set to 0 with hexadecimal selected,
 
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doesn't matter, 0 is 0
at this point clean install of windows 10 seems to be the best option, do you have another computer that you can use to create windows 10 instillation media? if not you can do a fresh install of windows 7 and then do the upgrade to 10.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
 
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nb1204

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Ok this is what worked and I didn't have to do a clean install:



This is what Finally helped me:

1. Go Windows+R or regedit.exe on start menu

2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\Status\Auditboot and make sure its set to zero.

3. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\Status\SysprepStatus\Cleanupstate and change value to 7 as well as GeneralizationState to 7
4. Reboot.

Make sure you backup your registry key because I haven't seen this solution thus messing around with those entries thus far anywhere and kind of just stumbled across it clicking on things today. It worked and I was finally able to upgrade to Windows 10 without doing a clean install. And everything seems to be working fine.

 
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