Recent content by imaref

I would be a basket case trying it. Glad it worked for you.

I wish Windows would ask during installation how big to make it because I would choose larger. I don't like fiddling around with 3rd party software to extend the partition so I was pleasantly surprised that at least it's now double what it used to be after clean install.

Did a clean install last Friday (WMC tool on USB). Finally got all software, drivers, settings set up. Ran disk management to make sure everything is healthy and got a pleasant surprise--the EFI partition, instead of being the miniscule 100MB (like always on a clean install) is now 200MB. I...

UPDATE: clean install went fine. Checked in security center and all security certificates are up to date.

Thanks. Yes I do have the updated certificates so I guess I'm good.

Planning to do a clean Windows 11 install on my laptop. If I use the Windows Media Creation Tool and create a flash drive, will I have any trouble because of the updated security certificates? I always delete all of the partitions and start fresh so kind of worried this might mess with those...

I did the optional Windows 11 update in the past week or so, then the regular update today (July 9th). In the notes it says that "compress to" is supposed to be added to the right click menu. I'm not finding this. Could it be because I have the program 7zip installed? I'd like to have the...

I am very familiar with Optane. My HP laptop has it (and it works very well). I hope I will save you some pain. 1. Optane requires a small empty space at the very end of your hard drive. IF you do a CLEAN install of Windows 10, you will not be able to get the optane working again UNTIL you use...