Windows on Keldo.uk

Windows does not like HDDs

Sat, 03 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

So my plan when I started this was to move my linux mint install to my nvme ssd. The first thing I tried was shrinking my secondary windows partition but windows only let me do around 200gb when i needed at least 270gb I then moved to shrinking my linux mint install. However I quickly found out that you can’t do this while booted into linux mint. Luckily I still had my linux mint install usb so I booted from that and began a shrink. This took far longer than expected like 4-5 hours.

Dual boot

Thu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

After microsoft announced their new recall feature I felt this was the last straw. While I know my pc can’t run recall and some of the over new ai features. I just disslike the direction microsoft is heading in.

I had pleanty of room on my hard drive so I just made a bootable linux mint usb and installed to a 1tb partition on my 2tb hdd. I installed most software with the only thing I couldn’t do being due to financial constraintes. This involves me having gamepass rather than buying the games on steam as well as not having minecraft on google play.

Wake On LAN

Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I already had a go at a wol system before but it never worked properly. So I had ended up just setting it to turn on at a set time of day when ever I was away but that had a load of issues. However with some luck I found a video with more information on server protocals with windows 11(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pZu35hTipo).

I managed to set up gpt wol on a docker container and add my device. However the big help I got from this video was realising i needed to edit the group policys which can’t normally be done with windows home edition. So i downloaded a third party editor policy plus and it turned out this was the reason wake on lan had never worked.

Removing Razer

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

It began with me getting mad with razer more specifically razer synapse. Every few days either my lights or custom lock button would stop working but it wasn’t just changing profile like it had before it was kepping the profile but removing everything in it.

The first function I replaced was the lighting control I downloaded OpenRGB and made a Profile I was happy with. It doesn’t have as many options as Razer but it has all the ones I was using before. However it wasn’t perfect everytime I locked my pc the rgb returned to its onboard profile of cycling rgb. I managed to fix it by creating a task in task schedular. It runs openrgb with the –profile argumnet.

Windows 11

Sat, 03 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

With the announcement of when Windows 10 would come to the end of its support and the rumours of Windows 12 I finally decided to Upgrade to Windows 11. I started by trying to make a full backup of the PC however that was to big even for my NAS so I just decided to risk it and install Windows 11.

The install was very easy all I did was download the upgrade application from microsoft and everything worked fine. I spent around 30 minuets on the background stuff then manually rebooted so I didn’t have to wait another half an hour. After probably around 45 minutes the PC stopped rebooting before giving me a heart attack by not accepting my password before flashing to black and finally working.