So i noticed my PC was taking like 40 seconds to boot when it previously was taking way less. i thought it might be a BIOS problem but turns out it was Hyper-V, which is needed for Virtualization in windows.
Turn it off with add remove;
To turn off Hyper-V with powershell;
Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-Hypervisor
Open up Regedit and go to;
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome
if you see an item on the right side called;
“ExternalProtocolDialogShowAlwaysOpenCheckbox”
Delete this item and and restart chrome.
With the cost of electricity being able to change power profile quickly is very handy with PowerPlanSwitcher.
Download from Microsoft Store here;
https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/powerplanswitcher/9NBLGGH556L3?hl=en-us&gl=us
Credit:
PowerPlanSwitcher lets you quickly change Power Plans in Windows 11/10
Windows 10 Wont enter sleep mode with Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Joystick plugged in.
I ran into this problem a while back as no matter what i did my PC would enter sleep mode. i tried everything;
Turns out it was due to having the Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Joystick plugged in which i might add is a superb Joystick for Flight Simulator 2020.
Geforce Experience Bug:
Turned out, there is a bug in nVIDIA experience, down in the Windows driver level that would prevent the system from being idle, if you have a joystick plugged in (the article goes a bit deeper into details, it is very interesting if you are a software development related kind of person).
TL:DR , if you have nVIDIA GPU + nVIDIA GeForce Experience installed + have any kind of joystick plugged into the system , Windows won’t be able to sleep/turn screen off automatically until either:
You turn off nVIDIA GeForce Experience in-game overlay.
You unplug ALL joysticks off your system.
PSA: if GeForce Experience is enabled and joysticks are plugged in, Windows can’t automatically turn off screen / go to sleep. This is critical if you are using an OLED screen for your simpit.
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The send to menu is located below in windows explorer. Press Windows Key + R to get to the Run dialog Window and enter “shell:sendto”
You can add shortcuts to folders to this location by placing them inside this folder;
C:\Users\<your windows username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
Removing the list of Drives from the sendto menu requires a Registry tweak;
This is one of the most annoying things aboutr the sendto menu as it will list the drives on your system which most of the time isnt needed.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoDrivesInSendToMenu"=dword:00000001
Microsoft did it again, released another f***king update for Windows 10 that broke things. This is the second or third time this has happened now.
This time the problem is similar again to one i had just solved a while ago where my PC would just freeze randomly.
Again this problem was caused by updating Windows 10 to 1809 which i only did a few months ago due to all the issues that update had.
This fucking update is a disaster and i have not been able to roll back to 1809 yet and i still down know whats causing the problem. All the evidence points to the Windows 1903 update.
The problem:
Only seems to occur when the PC is either idle or watching youtube or netflix.
Windows 10 Reliability:
So far ive;
Did Not work:
The Fix in the BIOS:
Note:
This may be a BIOS or Motherboard compatability issue with Windows 10 1903. The motherboard in question here is an Asus m5a97 r2.0 with BIOS version 2501.
Windows 10 May 2019 Update Megathread
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Fixing DPC latency;
The below article which im still reading recommends a few things;
https://merabheja.com/high-dpc-latency-on-windows-10/
Problem *seems* to be a compatability problem between windows and a Bluetooth Dongle.
I had old Bluetooth dongle from Motorola “BCM92035DGROM” which worked fine but i did have problems with it and the 1809 update.
The cause is still unknown the PC froze again for no known reason. The below article has some tips to stop it happenening;
Laptop freezes randomly after Install Windows 10 May 2019 update
https://windows101tricks.com/windows-10-freezes-randomly/
Articles about this problem;
https://howtofixwindows.com/windows-10-laptop-freeze-and-crash-issues/
https://wintechlab.com/windows-10-freezes-applications-not-responding/
Finding the cause of freezes;
https://www.digitalmastersmag.com/magazine/tip-of-the-day-how-to-find-crash-logs-on-windows-10/
How to rollback on the update;
https://howtofixwindows.com/rollback-windows-10-update/
With the recent news that the latest Windows 10 update build (1809) deleted users downloads;
Microsoft:
We have paused the rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809) for all users as we investigate isolated reports of users missing some files after updating.
(via engadget.com)
i thought id post this story which ive been too lazy to post about for months. If anything it shows that Windows 10 is not all its cracked up to be.
Over the years ive installed every Microsoft Windows OS;
Windows 10 is the only one of those Operation Systems that wiped four hard drives without even a confirmation prompt to say you were “going to wipe out 5 hard drives”.
So what did you do?
It was almost new years eve and well my Windows 10 install was getting more broken after each update and the October 2017 update gave constant blue screens when using bluetooth headphones. So i thought dam im going to have to reinstall windows 10 and all the dam updates. At this point i really didnt want to do this with college work and programming source code scattered all over the shop.
F*ck it!
I had made a point of always backing up my PC since a horrable incindet back in 2003 where i lost the source code to two applications i was working on (fucking Maxtor Hard drives). So yes i had a back up which was on another physical drive other than the SSD drive that Win 10 was installed.
Fed up of blue screens and problems since the October 2017 update i decided i had to reinstall Windows 10. So i seen in Windows 10 there was a “Reset this PC” feature;
I was hoping this was one of “Ronseal” moments where it does “exactly what it says on the tin”, it didnt.
What could go wrong
I had a back up and was ready to go, so i pressed the “Get Started” button and thought great, it will all be fine. Now this is the part that is kinda fuzzy ill admit, i cant remember what it said but i was sure that “nothing” would go wrong when i presses the enter button to “reset this PC” that as i pressed it i walked out of the room to get a cuppa Tea.
The horror:
I was away from the PC for a while and thought to myself “sure might as well let it do its thing” and ill watch some TV.
I had expected than when i would return to the PC that Windows 10 would be installed and ready to go. An hour later i came back to the PC to see that it hadnt booted into any Windows 10/Any kinda interface, nothing. Black screen and a DOS prompt saying the dreaded message;
“No system drive found”
Windows had mangled or rahter me the menu which Windows used to find the system drive to boot from. After using the BIOS to boot of the correct drive Windows 10 booted.
Not only had the the main Windows drive been wiped but all other internal hard drives were wiped with exception to the External USB 3.0 drive.
External USB Drive to the rescue:
For some reason Windows 10 didnt wipe this drive if it had it would have been an utter fucking nightmare. I had my programming and college work from over the tears on this drive and somewhere in the “cloud” with Goggle Drive.
Theres hope:
I knew that when you delete a file its not really deleted rather the location where it was is marked as a place for new files to be written. So i had not make sure that i didnt save or write anything to all the hard drives in question.
Recovery Software:
I had used recovery software before and i knew that
So i needed to find the best recovery software available and hope that it would work.
Recommended software:
Figuring out which recovery software was the best was difficult but after a few days of trial and error i found that EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard was the best due to its simeple to use approach via a wizard which walks you through the steps of what drive to recover etc.
It was easy to use and recovery almost everything that was deleted. Some files cannot be recovered but it managed to recover ALL of my Music collection which was nothing short of a miracle.
Notes:
This is not a Paid advert but just a personal opinion from a Windows 10 nightmare.