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Haven't applied May update on Win 10. I use wait and see approach nowadays

Looks like I ran out of reaction quota for today. Even I'm dumbfounded. Usually at idle the uneven temps are absent with paste and on max load there were 5-6C core difference on some cores with paste and with carbon cloth uneven is almost NIL and at max with single thread the core difference was 1-2C. Anyway, here are the images if anyone is interested in the shape of the cloth I used and want to try it. My heatsink was lapped previously and some more lapping would cause improper fit due to low pressure BGA heatsink.

Just replaced thermal paste for carbonaut on 15R2 after replacement battery was dead again. Although temps didn't change much the uneven core temps are gone. On GPU carbonaut didn't make a difference due to large surface area

Don't add it as a startup service. I had black screen issues when undervolt was too low and newer microcode didn't accept. With TS it will auto revert but in linux you will be seeing only blackscreen and no info. You need to disable secure boot to undervolt otherwise kernel will deny any read/write requests to CPU/MMIO. Undervolt package can read from TS ini and could apply the undervolt when cmdline is used.

Actually you can use TS via cmdline undervolt on linux For GUI version there is AppImage (equivalent to portable app on Windows) https://appimage.github.io/linux-intel-undervolt-gui/ or debian package Github releases

Thanks Jaybee.

Haha nice to see you and join the party.

Ran into all the error code specifically 0xxx98f error multiple times on a PC which had Dism Component cleanup performed and I didn't use ResetBase. Anyway I had to use deskmodder v4 script and afterwards the update was successful. It seems DismComponent cleanup is buggy on 21H1/H2. I think I need to use Dism++.

@Aaron44126Dell's intention are bad with another proprietary garbage that'll be thrown in trash after few months just like their custom GPU upgrades for A51M. Non-standard parts aren't readily available and usually horribly priced. It will be another failure and hopefully their project aurora (aka Sustainable Laptop design) can be shelved as well.

The virtualisation should apply system wide and not only UWP apps. I still hate Nvidia DCH because it is same as standard ones with just name change. I tried nvidia latest driver i.e standard driver 472.12 and image quality on old games were garbage. Dishonored 1 looked like it was underwater and texture were a mess. Downgraded to MSFT one 419.72. Initially I thought it was their nvidia spatial up-sampler but it doesn't work on 980M.

Anyone familiar with StarLabs laptop/labTops? How good the aftersales service is or similar? I am interested in coreboot based minimal BIOS instead of Aptio 5.x? Also they have physical DIMM slots instead of soldered DIMMs.

So, Win 11 sandboxed app virtualisation and protection never protected or worked on Win 11 users? Chris Titus's Linux videos are good too.

Hey guys been a long time. Couple of days back, had a convo with unclewebb and came to know 12th gen BGA H series doesn't have undervolt and only HK has them. He said this move was disappointing. As always new isn't always better.

@Papusan and @Mr. Fox I believe W11 market survey is based on force upgraded to W11 just to get more OS usage. TPM, Secure Boot etc being serviced/update by windows. It seems due to many OEMs neglecting BIOS updates to EOL machine is causing an issue. I think OEMs should support atleast 4 years and make less devices. Now there is too many devices to service and good machine or well performant machines are just EOL'ed to make way for new machines.

Mine is unsupported reason being Ivybridge and skylake. On 2 of them, i enabled windows update to update intel uwp control panel but instead it started downloading esd file for Win 11 and i stopped mid-way and disabled windows update and download offline appx file from adguard.

This is very confusing for small players who wants Qualcomm based SOCs but no W11ARM license makes it hard to adopt and most of load ChromeOS w/ not many hefty minimum requirements to install/integrate.

I got W11 is ready to install when I enabled Windows updates on my unsupported machines. I have disabled windows update and also cleaned up downloaded win update cab files.

It seemed Win 10 was bad, now Win 11 is exact replica of iPadOS/Mac OS and they might remove hot-plugging USB HDD or thumb drives just because its old and non-compliant to W11 in future. I hope MSFT makes Win 12 redeemed version just like W7

I don't think many people will notice the info message and only care about W11 being installed.

I think they are copying Samsung OneUI ads until all userbase complains and receives a backlash. Since OS market is so low for Win 11 I don't understand why add ads since most newcomers will be put off instantly and think they are infected with malware.

I dunno what to say, I have a decade long laptop and it doesn't need drivers for Fn key for audio, mute except flight mode or airplane mode. On Linux all hotkeys with Fn works fine even on my AW BGA wherein I got rid off AWCC.

Just wanted to ask if W11 is actually beta i.e 21H2. I am seeing weird start menu bugs in VBox VM for Win 11 Pro. Start menu hides or disappears mysteriously then comes back. Even lot of the options/settings are missing and "Always show all icons in Tray" is missing fro Win11. Felt more like XP era where we installed 3rd party themes for added functionalities.

@Rofa1234Are you Rooter1234? If so I'll update OP with the credits.

@mujtabaYou can add this link to OP for those who want to sanitize their HDD/SSD/NVMe drives. Secure Erase SSD using Linux Very good guide about SSD and various terminologies. I'm amazed at the tech advancement and size/formats available. 64GB was enthusiast grade a decade ago and now 8TB multi-stack flash are becoming the norm and so does soldered NVMe BGA on PCs. On phones/tabs I understand soldered NVMe/RAM BGA is necessary but on PC it doesn't make sense unless the PC screen is <7"

I'm making an W11 ISO and trying in a VM before uploading to Mega since my PC doesn't support it officially, I noticed image editing especially adding updates/apps took 2-3x more time than W7/8.1/10.