Recent content by Slavic

From my point, this is nothing else but well known network installation. This way, Microsoft could release a small separate network installer which can be started from any external media like a small USB flash drive, connect to server with main Windows components and perform such installation...

It will not support Win32 code. Yes, it will be more like an entertainment OS, but with limited support of modern video games. Microsoft too quickly forgot the fiasco with Windows RT.

That's right. You can install 24H2 on MBR partition, but then have a problem with upgrade it to 25H2. More likely, you will not see this upgrade in Windows Update because the compatibility check fails, and have to update it manually using dism. However, you may try to use MBR2GPT on 24H2, then...

Exactly! These two updates are not shown in Windows Update even as optional. WU works well, the last update received today was the Security Intelligence 1.453.373.0, that's all. Are these updates released only in Microsoft Update Catalog, where people, who know about their existence from third...

Should it be concluded that Point-in-time restore has some internal "AI" which checks the non-system updates or new apps installations as well as significant updates in user documents? In other words, it's an internal helper (or spy) which decides when it's a good time to create a new restore...

On my PC, for the past 3 days the Point-in-time restore automatically created 5 restore points, much more than expected from the default frequency settings (24 hours, it cannot be changed in UI). In practice, the time between the points is much less and different in each case, from 8 to 20...

Updated quite quickly with two restarts, no problems noticed yet. The most important addition is, of course, Point-in-time restore in the Settings > System > Recovery. When I opened this UI first time, the option was already turned on. However, the restore frequency and restore retention are...

Stopping the Capability Access Management Service is possible, it doesn't affect other services and will not break current OS functionality. It has a sense to stop this service before cleaning up the content of CapabilityAccessManager folder. However, disabling it may have severe consequences...

You could overwrite the ownership and add the user "Administrators" with full access for working with content in the future. I do this with folders which have unreasonably strict security (quite rarely, however).

It's nice when new HDD doesn't have any defects after manufacturing. Unfortunately, sometimes new devices may fail and need to be replaced by warranty.

This is what we were waiting for so long! MS finally improved the update logic and we no longer need to download all unnecessary components. The downloading and installation took about 20 min (slow download, about 10-15 Mb/s on 5G connection). System updated after two restarts, no errors found.

This is a symptom of controller malfunction. More exactly, it may be a problem with port on your PC (I highly recommend to use another PC for test), the problem with connecting cable (it can be easily replaced) and problem with controller on the device. The last is more severe. Sometimes it may...

Your device is grey in Device Manager, which means that driver presents but is not currently active. You can uninstall all such devices, most of them are USB as I see, because they all will be detected again upon connection. If you connect a device and nothing happens, it may be because this...

Unfortunately, this is a common solution of flickering problem. You can switch acceleration on when need by shortcut to chrome://settings/system, but it will not work automatically. Currently it is not possible to switch on/off hardware acceleration for specific websites. However, you can create...

In theory, instead of massive upgrade you can try to perform step-by-step upgrade, which doesn't break the activation at every single step. Configuration is counted as a sum of unique CPU, MB, RAM, HDD/SSD, network adapter. OEM should allow to replace only the MB (situations that it was broken...