Recent content by Galane

The way it's disabling the keyboard is quite like how it did a lot of people with the initial release of the 25H2 update that trashed many installs of Windows. Tell the user to hit Enter to continue to attempt recovery, right after shutting down all PS/2 and HID input, and after the user had...

fTPM with the CPU can impact performance a bit

I had to reset the BIOS to be able to update it. Shouldn't need to reset it again.

On an Asrock B450 Pro4 I had to reset the BIOS to defaults to get Instant Flash to work so it would update from 10.43 Beta to 10.60 I also installed a LPC TPM 2.0 module. I got everything configured how I wanted, but upon booting to Windows, my PS/2 keyboard doesn't work. I went back to BIOS...

Apps like CCleaner, AOMEI, Easeus, MiniTool Partition Wizard, all the ones for working with creating or changing partitions, all the apps from drive manufacturers, backup - they all want to sneakily add themselves as a background process every time they're run or updated. I'd love to have an...

I turned on Secure Boot in the laptop's BIOS setup and got it to install a 2023 key. So it shouldn't be popping up with any surprises later this year. (Get-UEFISecureBootCerts db).signature shows two 2011 keys and the Windows UEFI CA 2023 key on the laptop, but variable currently undefined on...

Today I enabled secure boot on my desktop and did the thing to update the keys. It's a normal fully supported system, no bypasses to install. My laptop is a Dell Latitude E6530. No TPM 2.0 firmware update from Dell (despite some other models of similar age got it) and the CPU is an older i7*...