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Category: Windows

Microsoft Windows Operating Systems

Windows Slow Down Causes

27/01/2025

Windows Protection

if your computer is experiencing slowdowns, it’s possible that Windows System Protection background tasks are contributing to the issue, as they can consume system resources like CPU and Disk access while creating restore points, potentially impacting your computer’s overall performance, especially if the system is set to create restore points too frequently.

Why System Protection might slow down your computer:

Frequent restore point creation:
If your system is set to create restore points too often,

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Can’t re-enable windows defender interface after uninstalling Norton

27/01/2025

To ensure that another “Policy” has not been set, you should check this key in the Registry

“As an Administrator”

Hkey_Local_Machine\Software\Policies\Microsoft\ and select Windows Defender.

Any key in this folder other than Default is a policy that will affect the function of WD.

Expect to find DisableAntiVirus or DisableAntiSpyware. You can disable either of

these by modifying there Dword from 1 to 0. Do that by right-clicking the key name,

and select “Modify”.

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Prevent Windows PC Overheating

11/11/2024

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

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Bypass Windows 11 Microsoft Account

24/08/2024

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.

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Increase Size of Recovery Partition

20/07/2024

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

4.

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Firefox Home Page Search Randomly Goes To Change Search Settings

17/06/2024

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

Ensure Thumbnails Are Enabled

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

Lenovo C50-30 AIO Windows 10 No Sleep Mode

26/09/2022

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

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.

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