Windows 10 Specific
As great as Windows 10 was compared to 8.1, there's still quite a few things I don't like about it. Here's a few changes I made I scoured off of the web
- Disable Auto Restart on W10 Home Edition
- Open regedit and go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
- Change NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers value to 1
- If not there, create new DWORD-32 for it
- W10 Insomnia Fix (Windows waking up by itself)
- Open Settings, type 'Security and Maintenance', and open first result
- Under Maintenance, click on 'Change Maintenance Settings'
- Uncheck the Allow to wake computer box
Device Specific
These are any device specific things I don't really have a place for
- Gigabyte Motherboards: Restoring main bios from backup bios (From this forum post)
- Method 1
- Shut your PC down (if you're reading this guide, than your PC isn't working anyways).
- Hold the power button until the PC starts and shuts down again.
- Press the power button again, your backup BIOS should kick in now and should re-flash the main BIOS if there's anything wrong with it.
- Method 2
- Shut your PC down (if you're reading this guide, than your PC isn't working anyways).
- Hold the power AND the reset button for about 10 sec, than release.
- Backup BIOS should kick in anytime soon now.
- Method 3
- Short out pins 1 and 6 on the main BIOS chip (pin #1 should be marked with a red dot or whatever).
- Press the power on button.
- Remove the ghetto-like jumper you're holding between pins 1 and 6 as soon as you hear a beep.
- Backup BIOS should kick in again and everything will (hopefully) be fine.
Miscellaneous
Random Stuff
- Virtualbox Shared Folder Fix For Linux Guest (fixes permission denied errors)
- Open terminal and type
sudo adduser your_user_name vboxsf
- Reboot
- Disable Windows Superfetch - Good usage for this is if you switch from Intel RST (Raid) to AHCI
- Press 'Windows Key' + 'R' to bring up run dialog box
- Type 'services.msc' and Run it
- Find the 'Superfetch' service, right click on it and select 'Properties'
- Under 'Startup', select 'Disabled'
- Reboot
- Microsoft Mathematics Addin for Microsoft Office 2013/2016 - Original Source
- If using Office 2003-2010: Download and install this file
- If using Office 2013: Download and install this file
- If using Office 2016, download the 2013 file, the follow below:
- Microsoft Pinball Debug Mode
- Open pinball
- Type in the words "hidden test" with the space to enable a secret debug mode.
- Now you can hold down the left mouse button and drag the ball anywhere you want :P
- This code also enables other hidden features:
- Pressing H allows you to edit the high scores.
- Pressing M displays your system memory available to windows.
- Pressing R increases your rank.
- Pressing Y displays the game FPS in the title bar.
- B, F11, and F12 are also hidden keys, but their functions are currently unknown.
- To get out of Debug mode, just press the space bar.