Slowly working on updating the Win10 tweak guide. No ETA.
In the meantime, here are my current O&O ShutUp10 settings:
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Powercfg.exe And Windows 10
I’m going to show you how to use the powercfg command to find out info on your power plan.
I did this pretty quick. Let me know if I missed something.
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Windows 10 Game Mode And Ultimate Performance Power Plan
In prep for the upcoming revision of the Win10 Tweak Guide I have some thoughts about Game Mode and the Ultimate Performance Power Plan.
Lemme give you my conclusion right out of the box. IMHO, for performance Game Mode and the Ultimate Performance Power Plan are pure snake oil.
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TweakHound.com Is 16 Years Old
Yep, I started this site 16 years ago. Whois says Creation Date: 2002-05-13T18:12:23Z but I think “May 2002” is close enough.
The average life span of a website is 2.7 years so this site is ancient by internet standards.
The purpose of this site was and is to inform and help in matters computer related. You know, “computer stuff…”
I hope I can still be doing this in another 16 years. I don’t know though. Will we still be using PC’s then?
There was a time when this site sometimes saw +35k unique hits a day. Today it is a fraction of that. I’ve have heard from every one of the world regions except maybe the 2 poles. You’ve no idea how humbling and special that is to me.
To the millions who have stopped by through the years, Thank You!
I hope I was able to help you in some small way.
About TweakHound.com | About Me
(original logo)
You can browse through this sites past at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/tweakhound.com
https://web.archive.org/web/20021127182517/http://www.tweakhound.com:80/
Years ago sites used “affiliates” to pass on their news. The use of affiliates was twofold: 1 to bring visitors directly to your site, and 2 to increase your Google page rank. AFAIK Google stopped using such things and sadly few website operators are friendly anymore.
At any rate, here is a list of affiliates from TweakHound.com’s past. Most of them are no longer around or have been bought out and changed:
3dXtreme
BlargOC
BlynkNet
DarksidePC
Dark][Tweaker
Flickerdown
Furioustech
HardCoreMods
[H]ardOCP
HardwareGeeks
OCIA
OverclockerCafe
PCeXtremist
PChardware UK
PCReviewSpot
PcTechTalk
SubZeroTech
TechSeekers
XtReMoDs
Warp2Search
Fix Windows 10 Network Browsing
Saw 2 posts published today:
Network Computers are Not Visible in Windows 10 Version 1803
Fix PCs no longer recognized in network after Windows 10 version 1803 upgrade
*cough*…ahem: December 30, 2017
Fix Windows 10 Network Browsing
Meltdown & Spectre Updates Benchmarked
My system benchmarked after KB4056892 and CPU Microcode update (BIOS).
Full system specs here: My New PC – 2017
CPU: Intel i7-8700k
Mobo: Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 7
GPU: Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 AMP! Edition (Nvidia)
Ram: 32GB
Drives: x2 Samsung 960 EVO NVMe M.2
OS: Win10 Pro
***UPDATED 23JAN2018
My motherboard manufacturer released another BIOS update for this issue.
New scores on PCMark10.
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PowerShell – Check For Meltdown and Spectre
IMHO this is a Geek tool for fun. Got Intel? You’re vulnerable.
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Win10 KB4056892 Benchmarked
KB4056892 is Microsoft’s first attempt at mitigating the Intel CPU fiasco.
Updated: see the end of this post.
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My Home Server – Windows 7
Here is my current setup. I will be attempting to switch over to a Linux server setup in the near future (just because).
This machine was my secondary workstation and has been repurposed for my home server.
This is a quickie article. No hand holding. If you do not know your way around Windows this article is not for you.
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Fix Windows 10 Network Browsing
After my latest computer build, parts swapping in/out old computers, and making a new/old home server I noticed network browsing was FUBAR. I double-checked everything I could think of. Everything worked last time I checked. I did some Googling and finally came up with the answer.
Fall Creators Update broke network browsing. Surprise, surprise:
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