Windows 10 1709 - Get rid of People on the taskbar

With Microsoft's latest GA version of Windows, there has been added new apps to the native OS. One of them called "People" which will show on the taskbar next to the clock.

Normally, if we like to get rid of these appx packages, we remove those using a powershell script, but this one cannot be removed as it is deeply integrated into the system.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/814e2233-b1d9-49be-84cb-485febe08be9/1709-removing-people-appxpackage?forum=win10itprosetup

What we can do instead is to download the latest ADMX files
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=56121

Add the ADMX to the domain controller.

Open the Group Policy Management console

GPUPDATE your client and you are all good.

Support NVME disk on Windows 7

Intel has decided to remove support for the Enhanced Host Controller Interface host controller (USB2.0 specification) and keep only the Extensible Host Controller Interface host controller specification (USB3.0 specification) in their Sky-lake Chipset.  Even though the USB3 host controller is backward compatible with USB2 host controllers, Microsoft Windows 7 installation is not without adding in the appropriate drivers.

If you have NVME disk you should inject a hotfix from Microsoft. Here is a guide on how to make this work.

1. Download hotfix from MS
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hotfix/kbhotfix?kbnum=2990941&kbln=en-us

2. Download USB3 driver from Intel
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/21129/USB-3-0-Driver-Intel-USB-3-0-eXtensible-Host-Controller-Driver-for-Intel-7-Series-C216-Chipset-Family

3. Create folders on the host that has ADK installed.
C:\temp\Source
C:\temp\Mount
C:\temp\Hotfix
C:\temp\Drivers

4. Copy your Windows 7 WIM image to the Source folder.

5. Copy MS hotfix to the Hotfix folder

6. Unpack the intel driver and copy only the USB3 drivers to Drivers folder.


7. download this script
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Add-hotfix-offline-to-a-e772fe5d

copy the script to the host with ADK and run it with administrative privilege.
wait for the task to complete.

Your Windows 7 image will now be able to be deployed to NVME disks.

Lenovo Hotkey Features Integration

To support lenovo laptop's with FN keys on screen display we need for Hotkey features.

Newest version 9.0.0.6 released 10.10.2017 can be downloaded from here:

https://support.lenovo.com/jp/en/downloads/DS031814

Lenovo documentation to do it unattended:

https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles/n1wvu26e.txt

Unattended Install

  This is for system administrators' use only.

  1. Refer to the Manual Install section, and download and extract the file.
  2. In the step 11 of the Installing files section, uncheck the checkbox next
     to "Install ..... now", and then click Finish to cancel installation.
  3. At the command line, execute setup.exe with the following option;
  /SP- /VERYSILENT /NORESTART /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES
     Example:
     [Files extracted path]\setup /SP- /VERYSILENT /NORESTART /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES

However this is not working. It prompts with an OK button when finishing.

Instead you should use:

setup.exe /S