Recent content by billyjk

Thanks for your perspective!

Thanks Steve... I've got a picture as my desktop. Interesting thought though! Thanks again. This initially was just a curiosity, and I think I've used up enough of the good ideas here. I am just moving on!

@mck Thanks for that insight. Your process does display the desktop with icons quickly after entering the PIN. Thanks for that. The bigger issue is the 20-25 seconds of black screen prior to the Win11 splash screen. I can get that splash to display right away with Fast Startup enabled, but...

@mck - thanks for the offer to help. Shutting down: - Close all open apps. - Chose Shut Down from the icon on the Start Menu - Let it shut down completely. - Wait a minute or two. Power on boot - Press power button on side of Spectre laptop - After 3 seconds, the HP logo displays, and remains...

So sorry - I meant "Fast StartUp". It works with speeding things up, but half the time it will not load my keyboard drivers during boot.

Thanks - I've gone over these items already. Interestingly, FastBoot *does* work, but it won't load my keyboard drivers reliably. I am just going to pass on this. Maybe I just have a slow-ass machine. Hey, it's almost 8 years old now - to be expected!

Just checked wifi - no dice. But, thanks for that creative idea!

Thanks Steve. Just tried, and it didn't make a difference in boot time. Thanks again for the idea!

Thanks for the kind offer. Not sure when I'll have the time to do so, but again, I appreciate the offer.

Thanks! I saw your response to other posts similar to my own, and I had given Proc Mgr a try. Not much there, just a few Epson processes and a VPN process. Once taken out of the boot process, it did not improve anything. Still, I appreciate the shout out.

I've got an HP Spectre x360 from 2017 that is healthy in all other respects. I upgraded "manually" to Win11 years back and just recently upgraded to 24H2. The laptop has TPM 2.0, but has a proc that is just outside of MS specs. Still, Win11 runs reliably and rather snappy. The problem is...

The .ico is perfect. Thanks again!

@James Damn! Fixed! I am familiar with this process, but I thought Foobar needed some resources embedded in the app, or maybe some registry voodoo, not an simple external .ico associated with the app. But it worked! Thanks for the .ico. I really appreciate it!

Hi, I've got a well-running Win11 desktop machine. I needed to update my Foobar2000 app to the newest version, and when done, the Foobar app icon in the taskbar displays a default "document" icon when I start up the app. If I pin it, and then unpin it, the Foobar icon appears in the taskbar...