Recent content by Mercutio

There's a registry/GPO you can set to trigger the update but you can also just download a newer ISO and kick off the upgrade from that.

I generally work from home, but summer is vacation season for everyone and a combination of grandma responsibilities and a fresh case of covid left me the only person able to open my office building today. Neither of the building HVAC systems are working and it's not just a tripped breaker...

For purposes of comparison, if I take six cores from my 3960X (Windows Server 2022) and the Arc A770 in it on to a Windows 11 VM, I can play Doom 2016 in WQHD at around 60fps. I'm not sure if the version of VMware you're using handles GPU pass-through but that's what I'd expect from any...

If you want something that just works my first thought is to just convert your vmdk file to a vhdx and use Hyper-V. Beyond that, MAYBE you forgot to enable some hardware virtualization settings in firmware or need to update VMware tools but nothing with 6 cores of Zen3 should be that bad full...

I PROMISE you can use a Win7 Technet key --> 10 --> 11 progression. I used that exact progression probably 40 - 50 times. After a certain point, I even found out that my key activations reset and I could use them again a bunch more times. My personal Technet keys got used for A LOT of virtual...

https://christitus.com/windows-tool/ I vastly prefer to work from my personal autounattend.xml (I've posted it in the Toolbox section) but this is a powershell one liner that puts a GUI full of tweaks on your screen. My guess is that you have a sparse-allocated VMDK and/or dynamic RAM...

The biggest issue I can see with the WTR Pro is heat. It probably needs another fan somewhere and I'm not sure where I'd put it. I actually love the form factor of this box, but it gets surprisingly warm for an N150. I think I'm going to have to mod another fan on this thing, if only because I...

I've observed that the Private DNS function can get wonky sometimes, especially when there's a switchover between Wifi and Cell networks. It'll tell you it can't contact the DNS server and then stop resolving names until you turn Private DNS off and back on. It's been years since I last tried...

I haven't see any issues from in-place upgrades of Windows 10 to 11. I did see them from 7 to 8 or 10, usually because the PC was already having problems with Windows Update. I do still see problems with PCs where people turned updates off entirely or have dutifully skipped updates for multiple...

I assure you that it does. There is a mention in the toolbox to Flyby 11, which patches a Windows 11 install ISO to drop the hardware check by using files from a Windows Server installer. It makes Defender freak out as a hack tool because it modifies signed Microsoft files but it works...

The option is called Private DNS on a Samsung device. I promise DNS66 works fine.

Flyby11 handles patching of Windows 11 installation media to bypass the hardware requirements. It uses files from Windows Server media rather than Windows 10. This might be relevant to some interests right about now.

Looks like there are reports from reddit that N100/N150-based systems given one or two 10GbE interfaces can in fact keep up with them for routing and filtering; they're roughly on par with an i3-8300 in overall performance. N1x0s only have a total of 9 PCIe lanes, but some of them DO have...

The advice I'm currently giving customers is that they should be making good-faith efforts to remove Windows 10 from active service, including the ones they use at home. A lot of people have perfectly good systems that are thrust into unsupported territory and that sucks. Not everyone wants to...

I think it would depend on the NIC's chipset, but the only option to get 10Gb would be from an m.2 slot regardless. Everything important in my place is 40Gb anyway. ;) There's no perfect prebuilt box or even perfect ITX rig. I'd rather have something with more than 4 cores and a faster option...