Recent content by Alan Smithee


  1. 'Fix problems using Windows Update' Question

    I did "Fix problems using Windows Update" last month because WU was giving me an installation error with the December cumulative update. It updated the drivers to the latest version and fixed a lot of issues, sometimes ones I didn't even know I had (for example in the Realtek and Intel SST audio...
  2. Cannot Disable Windows Hypervisor - Stuck on "A Hypervisor has been detected"

    The "Secure Mitigation Parser Tool" maybe can be useful to have information on hypervisors enabled in pc. See "Using SkTool to check the Hypervisor and VBS state" in Memory integrity enablement I think you can extract this little standalone tool (SKtool.exe) with UniversalExtractor without...
  3. Need to resize System Reserved partition

    Also Aomei Partition assistant can easily resize the first fat32 partition
  4. Strange modifications in the EFI folder

    SecureBootRecovery.efi saved me. I had installed the new Microsoft 2023 certificates with Mokichu's scripts, then (I don't even know why), I cleared all the uefi database keys from the bios and could no longer enable secure boot (the button was grayed out). If I loaded the default keys, secure...
  5. Solved Event Log Error TPM-WMI Event ID: 1796

    Yes, exactly. Idid that some minutes ago after stumbled on this thread
  6. Solved Event Log Error TPM-WMI Event ID: 1796

    Consider to do what is suggested in this thread Did you manually update your Secure Boot Keys ? running the two PS commands. This worked for me even if boot keys was already updated on my laptop
  7. Solved Event Log Error TPM-WMI Event ID: 1796

    I have this error in event viewer on my HP Omen 17'' notebook (bought three years ago) since 24h2 update UPDATE I read carefully this thread and the suggestion in post n. 2 by FerchogtX fixed the error for me also (I applied the solution by suatcini54 in this thread Did you manually update your...
  8. Solved Sendto function broken in Windows 11 24H2

    You have the desktop app or the windows store app? I think this may be the problem. In that case, try to use the full installer from www.thunderbird.net.
  9. Solved Please, help me increase the size of my EFI partition

    The HP BIOS menu and the HP uefi hardware diagnostic both missing the commands to launch a bios update from an USB drive. This operation can be performed or from OS via the BIOS update .exe file or forcing the update from a recovery USB drive following the steps i mentioned in my post
  10. Solved Please, help me increase the size of my EFI partition

    I had the same issue, resolved this way: -Download latest bios update -Disconnet all connected peripherals from your pc and insert an USB drive in one of your usb port -Run the bios file and choose option two: "create recovery usb flash drive" -At the operation completed, turn off your computer...
  11. Solved Edge gets "Couldn't download - No permissions" on every download

    The issue Is fixed after you changed these settings?
  12. Solved Edge gets "Couldn't download - No permissions" on every download

    If you want disable UAC controls completely you must also: 1) Change to 0 the registry value of "EnableLUA" in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System; 2) Open Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc), expand Computer Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings ->...
  13. Solved Edge gets "Couldn't download - No permissions" on every download

    I think you must check your UAC settings.
  14. "Correct" / best practices way to transfer files from one computer to another, via an external hard drive

    With utilities like Teracopy TeraCopy for Windows - Code Sector or FastCopy FastCopy you can copy or move with files also acl or metadata, choosing which specified metadata (date, hour, attributes etc.) you want to preserve. You can also automatically verify at the end the accuracy of the process.
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