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AskWoody MVPWavy,
Rick has posted some good info!
My only addition would be for the common WINDOWS user just keep using Powershell_ISE.exe to get the Integrated Environment. You can also use PowerShell.exe which will just give your the command environment, useful when running already developed and debugged scripts. This is a WINDOWS ONLY version
Stay away from Power Shell Core 6+ unless you need the specific features it provides.
Mostly this is for professionals (Network Admins) and those using PowerShell on platforms other than Windows.Just my 2 ¢.
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AskWoody MVPMarch 20, 2023 at 10:44 am in reply to: TPM 2.0, required by Windows 11, is hackable. Upgrade now? #2545130John,
According to the list linked in the referenced post Intel platforms are NOT affected. HTH
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RetiredGeek
AskWoody MVPMarch 20, 2023 at 8:48 am in reply to: TPM 2.0, required by Windows 11, is hackable. Upgrade now? #2545087Here’s a little PowerShell script to check your TPM. Run As Administrator!
$GCIArgs = @{NameSpace = "root\cimv2\security\microsofttpm" Class = "Win32_tpm" } Get-CIMInstance @GCIArgs | Select SpecVersion, IsEnabled_InitialValue, IsActivated_InitialValue, ManufacturerVersionInfo | FL
Output:
SpecVersion : 2.0, 0, 1.16 IsEnabled_InitialValue : True IsActivated_InitialValue : True ManufacturerVersionInfo : Intel
HTH
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AskWoody MVPThanks Sue!
One thing I found interesting is they didn’t have any Samsung SSDs.
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AskWoody MVPJust updated my Tiny11B2 laptop installation, easy peasy!
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RetiredGeek
AskWoody MVPSamsung smartphones powered by Exynos chips, such as the European model of the Galaxy S22.
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AskWoody MVPMarch 16, 2023 at 11:49 am in reply to: Introducing tiny11 a lightweight and debloated Windows 11 for less powerful PCs #2544031Being an OLD guy I can’t remember if it was required, but since the whole Idea is to have a small footprint OS I thought it best to start out fresh and deleted all existing partitions from the drive before booting from the install media.
That said, Formatting a drive will NOT change it from MBR to GPT. You need to use a tool like DiskPart, MBR2GPT.exe or a third party Partition Manager. Of course when selecting the partition to install windows to you use the buttons to delete all the existing partitions that should accomplish the task also. In any case you better have backups!
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AskWoody MVPMarch 16, 2023 at 9:03 am in reply to: Introducing tiny11 a lightweight and debloated Windows 11 for less powerful PCs #2544000Alex,
You need to convert the OS drive to GPT:
Support UEFI and Secure Boot Modes in BIOS: As stated earlier, Microsoft has required UEFI support and secure boot modes in BIOS for Windows 11 installation. Therefore, make sure you meet this requirement before proceeding with the installation.
GPT Disk Type for OS Drive: Your OS drive should be the GPT type to install Windows 11. But, nothing to worry about here because this article is all about installing Windows 11 on the MBR partition.Most third party Patition Management software supports this feature, although some only in the upgraded paid versions.
Update: Nuibi Partition Editor does this in the free version. Note: The current Portable edition does not work, you’ll have to use the installed version or at least try it as I use the portable version.
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AskWoody MVPMarch 15, 2023 at 2:50 pm in reply to: Tested: Default Windows VBS Setting Slows Games Up to 10%, Even on RTX 4090 #2543815From the link provided in Windows Security when I tried to turn it on.
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AskWoody MVPCheck out Tiny11B2. All the Win 11 good stuff w/o all the trash! No MS Account needed.
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AskWoody MVPMarch 15, 2023 at 8:53 am in reply to: Tested: Default Windows VBS Setting Slows Games Up to 10%, Even on RTX 4090 #2543706Yeah, well it’s not enabled on my machine and it doesn’t look like it will be!
Windows 10 Pro Main driver circa 2017Learn how to resolve problems with incc drivers BrUsbSib.sys Brother LGBusEnum.sys Logitech LGJoyXlCore.sys Logitech LGJoyHidFilter.sys Logitech LGVirHid.sys Logitech lv302a64.sys Logitech Ivrs64.sys Logitech Ivrs64.sys Logitech LVUSBS64.sys Logitech LV302V64.SYS Logitech wdcsam64_prewin8.sys Western Digital Technologies LGBusEnum.sys Logitech Inc. LGJoyXlCore.sys Logitech Inc. LGVirHid.sys Logitech Inc. lv302a64.sys Logitech Inc. Ivrs64.sys Logitech Inc. LVUSBS64.sys Logitech Inc. LV302V64.SYS Logitech Inc.
That’s one long list of drivers that I’m not going to play with since the machine is running just fine.
FYI: I used the PowerToys Text extractor to grab that list and then just edited it. Sure saves a lot of time and typing errors!
Windows Tiny11B2 Pro Dell Laptop circa 2015.
igdkmd64.sys Intel Corporation igdkmd64.sys Intel Corporation
Don’t know why it shows up twice but it does. I may try to fix this one
I’m going to assume my Test Dell Win 10 Pro circa 2013 has just as many problems as my daily driver!
Per MS:
Turning on the Memory integrity setting would block these incompatible drivers from loading. Because blocking these drivers might cause unwanted or unexpected behaviors, the Memory integrity setting is turned off to allow these drivers to load.
If you want to restore the Memory integrity setting, you can try to resolve a driver incompatibility by seeing if an updated and compatible driver is available through Windows Update or from the driver manufacturer. Microsoft does not recommend that you delete drivers to attempt to restore this setting.
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AskWoody MVPMarch 14, 2023 at 9:22 pm in reply to: Introducing tiny11 a lightweight and debloated Windows 11 for less powerful PCs #2543617Hey Y’all,
Just successfully installed the March cumulative update in Tiny11B2!
I’m lovin’ this on my 8 year old laptop. Currently in the process of setting it up to mimic my daily Win10-Pro driver. So far so good!
Just upgraded my 2 StartIsBack licenses to StartAllBack (3.99! what a deal). I really love this program on W11 looks great and feels like what I’m used to including giving me back my custom toolbars on the taskbar, I was really missing this!
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RetiredGeek
AskWoody MVPWell, this gets interestinger and interestinger!
I just did an clean install of SysInternals and I got Funny Resulds:
Search for AutoLogon.exe (known quanity)
Open the Folder containing the files:
Open the Secondary Directory with a funny name:
Rick, you’ll notice that they were not in the directory you suspected but rather in:
C:\Users\Bruce\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps
and
C:\Users\Bruce\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Sysinternals_823kyb3d8bb23
Of course they are all zero length files not very useful.
Note: the ones in NonInstPrograms\Sysinternals are ones I copied from another machine.
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AskWoody MVPSysInternals is the one I’m having problems with.
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