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
Found this superb tutorial on how get windows server install in virtual and connect up small local network
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.
The BIOS update a scary update that might mess up your PC if it goes wrong.
So recently i wanted to play a Blu Ray disk i bought on Amazon and i remembered (probaly wrongly) that the BIOS of my motherboard the MSI 450 a Pro Max had problems with the Blu ray drive i have the Pioneer BD-202.
So i had the bright idea of rolling back the BIOS to see if that would fix it. I had done so 3 times previosly and there was no problems that was until an ipdate that made my CPU work the motherboard.
AMI BIOS 7B86vMC
Description:
Basially this update made the motherboard work with AMD Ryzen 5600 CPU’s and rolling it back past this update would “probably” break the compatability.
Now i knew this was kinda stupid but i wanted to see if a previous BIOS update would make the Blu-Ray drive work properly.
Disaster:
BIOS updated but when the PC went to reboot there was nothing put the white motherboard light on and nothing on the screen. it was at that moment i knew i had fucked up!
USB M Flash:
I knew there was a way to recovery if i could rollback the update but how. id never used this feature before on any motherboard and since nothing came up when the PC came on how would i even enable this recovery mode which is called “M-Flash”.
Mikes Unboxing Video:
so i googled this motherboard and the bios and was searching for some way to fix the mess i had made and i found this video and i cannot thank this guy enough for making a video like this.
What i needed:
Problem:
I only had my phone and had no access to a laptop or other PC. i had to copy the BIOS file to the root folder of the USB drive and rename it to “MSI.ROM”.
Without a PC this would normally be impossable but i remembered that i had saved the BIOS working previous update on the flash drive i was using and only needed a way to rename and move the file. How to do this with no PC?
The flash drive i had both a USB A and USB micro connector and my phone was now USB C. It was a Sandisk 16Gb drive.
How to connect a USB C Slot to the Flash drive. A few months ago i ordfered a Pen mouse from Amazon;
I remember at the time if had some weird adapters for it. I thought to myself i will never need them but i kept the box for some reason and when i opened it to see what adapters were inside it;
When i connected the Flash drive and adapter see below;
My phone was able to detect it as a Flash drive and now all i had to move the file to root dir of the flash drive.
This is where the youtuber Mikes Unboxing Video’s saved the day. He went through the process of how to get the motherboard to “re-flash” or “flashback” to different BIOS version.
After putting the BIOS that was working fine in the root folder of the flash drive and renaming it as per intructions.
This process was nerve wracking it took 5 agonising mintutes of waiting to see if i would have to my PC back and luckily it came back to life.
Huge thanks to Mikes Unboxing, give him a sub on youtube at;
https://www.youtube.com/@mikesunboxing
If your getting this running a Visual Basic.net application then your missing the Microsoft office Data Connectivity Components;
Download from here;
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=13255
Playing Blu-Ray discs in windows 10 is a bit og a pain. In order to get it to work you have to go through a few hoops with VLC.
https://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/
Part A: Keys database
Create the folder “C:\ProgramData\aacs\”
Download keys.cfg from the link and place in the folder you created “C:\ProgramData\aacs\”
Note:
finding keysdb.cfg file isnt available at that site for some reason anymore.
Part B: AACS dynamic library
Depending on the version of VLC you have you just need to copy this dll file into the same directory.
VLC 32 bit on Windows: put that file in your VLC directory
VLC 64 bit on Windows: put that file in your VLC directory
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
Was working my way through the exercises on hackthebox.com and every FFUF scan was saying the file size as 0.
Turns out it was Bitdefender’ “Online Threat Protection” ->”Network threat protection”.
This blocks the filesize of FFUF results so the will come out as 0 if you are connected using VirtualBox.
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.
byu/AMRAAM_Missiles inflightsim
The pain of running docker as a non-root user is hard to describe but there is a solution. The solution is create the docker group and add your user:
sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER