Microsoft Windows

Windows 10 and 11 throttles and slows down EXTREMELY after playing a heavy game for a while.

I found a fix and wanted to share the solution.

Here is what to do:
Use throttlestop and disable BD PROCHOT
For me, windows doesnt know how to throttle my cpu properly and instead makes it go SUPER slow to the point that the windows itself starts lagging.

Then UPDATE YOUR GPU DRIVERS!!1
For some reason though, my nvidia gpu could only get the newest update using the lenovo vantage app since my laptop is a lenovo. SO perhaps try your manufactures app.

Now do a reboot and hopefully things should be well.

By the way, this issue only happens for me in windows, linux works fine!

Hope this helps someone, not sure if piefed could be crawled by search engines or not.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31889457

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

Could Windows and installed apps upload all my personal files?

Dear all

I have deleted Onedrive and disabled File system access in Privacy.

1. I would like to know, which other ways that my personal files could be uploaded in a non-malicious non-hacker way?
2. Just by using Windows, Microsoft could upload all my personal files to themselves if they would?
3. Does every installed App / software have full access to my whole drive? How can I found out, how much access it has?

Thank you for your interest and reply

Best regards

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31889457

Please see the cross-post as it is updated.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29924695

If compatibility, performance, and long-term security are important to you, Windows 10 Enterprise + ESU is the more future-proof route to go - all without sacrificing the "clean" LTSC experience.

Hey all!

I'm a long time Linux user, and I've been avoiding it for the good part of the last ~15 years. Most of my Windows experience is from the XP times.

I've changed careers from agriculturing to ICT a few years ago (almost done with school), and while I can say I know my way around Linux pretty well, Windows is an alien landscape to me.

I got a job a few years ago as sysadmin (not so much, but still) / IT-support (more), and I find myself struggling to help customers with Windows / handle Windows servers. I would like to change that.

I have no intention on moving my personal computing to Windows due to privacy concerns, which is a bit contradictory to my goals, because AFAIK learning things this way is the "best" approach. It was the case with Linux for me, at least.

While i do learn Windows at my job, I'd like to compliment it with another approach, too.

Do you guys have any suggestions how I could learn Windows (the whole ecosystem, not just end-users computers)? I'd like it to be fun, as I get bored easily (breaking my Linux time and time again was really fun learning method) Maybe fire up some VMs and go from there, somehow? What do you think are the most essential skills for a Windows sysadmin? Active Directory, sure, but what else?

That is, a Windows must be booted and run completely from an external drive, be able** to save settings** and data, and all other stuff -- perform all the things that a Windows installed normally, on an internal drive, does.

As far as I know, WinToGo doesn't work anymore. And I even have never used it anyway.

What works nowadays? Will Rufus be able to do this?

I did find a table somewhere that said Logon Type 6 is related to proxies, but every other piece of documentation skips type 1. Why? Is it defunct? Too common to report?

shooting for 4 taskbars

I was wondering if it's possible to change Windows 10/11s Power Mode via the command line instead of the UI. See attached screenshot. Windows 10 had a nice slider when you click the battery icon, but that's missing from 11 and you have to click a few more buttons to change it.

When I look up how to change the power mode everything is talking about using the legacy power plans found in control panel, but the power mode doesn't stick with the power plan, and I'm looking to automate changing that via a script.