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Prevent Windows PC Overheating

11/11/2024 by James

Work-around to stop Windows PC Overheating

In Windows Run box (Windows Key + R) enter following command to lower the Control Panel ‘Maximum processor state’.

control powercfg.cpl,,1

Scroll down to ‘Processor power management’. Next, click to expand ‘Maximum processor state’, then set the ‘On battery’ and/or ‘Plugged in’ percentages to less than 100%, e.g. 80%.

This should prevent the CPU overheating, i.e. reaching the maximum die (Tjunction) temperature and shutting down the PC.

ref: Computer Active 696/p64

Bypass Windows 11 Microsoft Account

24/08/2024 by James

To bypass the Microsoft Account requirement, proceed with the first few steps of the installation process normally until you reach the Sign in screen.

Then press Shift + F10 to open up a Command Prompt Window and enter the following command:

oobe\bypassnro

The system will restart and begin the installation steps all over. At this point disconnect your PC from the Internet. Eventually you’ll see an “I Don’t Have Internet” option, or you’ll be prompted to create a local account immediately.

Increase Size of Recovery Partition

20/07/2024 by James

The procedure below assumes a standard Windows 10 | 11 installation where the Recovery Partition immediately follows the Windows OS partition

1. Run Command Prompt as administrator

2. Check the Recovery partition is enabled

reagentc /info

If the Recovery partition is enabled disable it

reagentc /disable

3. Shrink the Windows OS partition by 250MB so as to increase the Recovery partition by the same amount

diskpart
list disk
sel disk [OS disk index]
list part
sel part [OS partition]
shrink desired=250 minimum=250
sel part [Recovery partition]
delete partition override

Firefox Home Page Search Randomly Goes To Change Search Settings

17/06/2024 by James

Inadvertently hitting Up-Arrow just before striking the Enter key causes the search to select last drop down menu search option, i.e. “Change Search Settings” instead of searching the web. This could be intentional but more often than not it’s an annoyance. It also wipes the original search query forcing it to be retyped. In addition the “Change Search Settings” option doesn’t get highlighted to give you a clue that it is going to Change Search Settings.

Pictures not showing in Windows 10 | 11File Explorer

25/03/2024 by James

Ensure Thumbnails Are Enabled

Open File Explorer.
Click on three horizontal dots at the right end of the ribbon tabs and then choose Options from the menu.
In the Folder Options window, uncheck the box beside Always show icons, never thumbnails (if it’s checked).
Click Apply and hit OK

Remove Bing and Chat Icons from Windows 11 Start Menu Search Results

25/05/2023 by James

Using Regedit navigate to

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\

Click on Windows and add new key called Explorer

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer

Click on Explorer and add 32-bit DWORD DisableSearchBoxSuggestions = 1

Restart

Lenovo C50-30 AIO Windows 10 No Sleep Mode

26/09/2022 by James

If not installed already install the Intel HD Graphics 5500 drivers either through Settings > Update & Security > Optional Updates > Drivers or download directly from Intel Support Download web page.

Malware and Adult content Blocking DNS Servers

11/05/2022 by James

Router centralised malware and adult content blocking

Choose Cloudflare 1.1.1.2/1.0.0.2 and 1.1.1.3/1.0.0.3 DNS servers to entrust them to block malware and adult content sites.

Choose Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 primary and secondary DNS servers for Open unrestricted access.

Alternative public Open DNS servers:

Google: 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4
OpenDNS: 208.67.222.222/208.67.220.220
Quad9: 9.9.9.9/149.112.112.112
Comodo: 8.26.56.26/8.20.247.20

For public DNS Servers by country see https://public-dns.info/

Notes:
Cloudflare promises that it won’t use your browsing data to serve ads and commits to never writing the your querying IP address to disk.

Can’t run Virtualbox VM

05/05/2022 by James

Windows 10

Virtualbox v6.1

When trying to run newly created VM the following Virtualbox error is generated:

WHvCapabilityCodeHypervisorPresent is FALSE! Make sure you have enabled the 'Windows Hypervisor Platform' feature. (VERR_NEM_NOT_AVAILABLE).
VT-x is not available (VERR_VMX_NO_VMX).
Result Code:
E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component:
ConsoleWrap
Interface:
IConsole {872da645-4a9b-1727-bee2-5585105b9eed}

To fix ensure the following Window Features are disabled and VT-x is enabled in the BIOS:

Hyper-V
Virtual Machine Platform
Windows Hypervisor platform
Containers

Finally run the following Command Prompt command:

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

Restart the computer

Note: When VT-x is first enabled the PC should be powered off and on again

Install Windows 11 without Internet

17/04/2022 by James

When you reach the “Let’s Connect You To A Network” page, press Shift+F10 to bring up the Command window and enter following command:

taskkill /F /IM oobenetworkconnectionflow.exe

Return to the Windows 11 setup and enter local account information

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