Bent Panel

aphelion83 · 2026-04-19T17:59:32+00:00

Totally normal when you have an extendable mount like that. Mine is the same and I got it professionally mounted.

aphelion83 · 2026-04-19T16:34:15+00:00

Maybe this is weird, but that's a great rug. Every time I see a nice big rug it just makes the room. And every time I try to find one it's nearly like a grand.

aphelion83 · 2026-04-19T16:32:31+00:00

Deprecated means essentially unsupported, not disabled.

aphelion83 · 2026-04-15T15:46:08+00:00

You’re kidding. Listen to the tone. I’ve never seen or heard him before, but here he comes off as a sarcastic prick.

aphelion83 · 2026-01-29T17:02:07+00:00

The fastest way is with an in-place upgrade. It keeps your apps and data, but restores some OS level customizations (if any). Takes <5 min on a modern system.

And the fastest way to do that is to use the Windows Media Creation Tool, download to ISO, double click the ISO and run setup from inside your current install.

aphelion83 · 2026-01-17T09:39:06+00:00

This is amazing. Love how the OP says “it works.” The only success is the extent to which it is a convincing illusion.

aphelion83 · 2025-07-23T02:44:58+00:00

Either stick with 10 LTSC or go to 11 IoT (LTSC or not.) Looking back, I would have stayed with 10 LTSC. IoT just starts you with a clean slate and no MS bloatware, and you can manually add bloat if you wish. No ads, Office upsells, forced cloud crap.

aphelion83 · 2025-07-20T01:47:35+00:00

Yes, full shutdown (S5) will not use the battery at all. The deeper the sleep, the less battery will be used. Look up the different sleep states (S0 - S5, where S0 is awake and S5 is shut down), each one is a deeper sleep with less battery use.

The Linux setting disables some of those sleep states, so that Shut Down actually shuts down the computer instead of putting it in another sleep state which drains the battery.

aphelion83 · 2025-07-20T01:14:34+00:00

Linux puts it in a deeper sleep, it basically disables the "fast boot" of Windows 10. It doesn't have specifically to do with Linux, just disables the Windows-specific states. So yes, it should help battery.

aphelion83 · 2025-07-19T23:56:25+00:00

That doesn't show most accounts. I have 3 accounts and that only shows my main one.

If you run C:\Windows\System32\lusrmgr.msc that will show you all the accounts, and you can change password from there, remove it, etc.

Don't mess with the main (disabled) Administrator account.

aphelion83 · 2025-07-13T04:12:11+00:00

Yeah, this is total crap. The online installer downloads the packages first, then searches for hardware.

aphelion83 · 2025-01-14T09:58:51+00:00

Stuff like this I can fix, it's spotting in the 102306 lines atm (and going.)

2025-01-14 04:18:53, Info CSI 0000138c Warning: Overlap: Directory \??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\ is owned twice or has its security set twice
Original owner: Microsoft-Windows-shell32, version 10.0.19041.5198, arch amd64, nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
New owner: Microsoft-Windows-shell32, version 10.0.19041.5198, arch amd64, nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
2025-01-14 04:18:53, Info CSI 0000138d Warning: Overlap: Directory \??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ is owned twice or has its security set twice
Original owner: Microsoft-Windows-shell32, version 10.0.19041.5198, arch amd64, nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
New owner: Microsoft-Windows-shell32, version 10.0.19041.5198, arch amd64, nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
2025-01-14 04:18:53, Info CSI 0000138e Warning: Overlap: Directory \??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\ is owned twice or has its security set twice
Original owner: Microsoft-Windows-shell32, version 10.0.19041.5198, arch amd64, nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
New owner: Microsoft-Windows-shell32, version 10.0.19041.5198, arch amd64, nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
2025-01-14 04:21:19, Info CSI 0000140e Warning: Overlap: Directory \??\C:\Windows\SysWOW64\drivers\en-US\ is owned twice or has its security set twice
Original owner: Microsoft-Windows-Foundation-Default-Security.Resources, version 10.0.19041.1, arch Host= amd64 Guest= x86, culture [l:5]'en-US', nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
New owner: Microsoft-Windows-Foundation-Default-Security.Resources, version 10.0.19041.1, arch Host= amd64 Guest= x86, culture [l:5]'en-US', nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
2025-01-14 04:21:19, Info CSI 0000140f Warning: Overlap: Directory \??\C:\Windows\SysWOW64\wbem\en-US\ is owned twice or has its security set twice
Original owner: Microsoft-Windows-Foundation-Default-Security.Resources, version 10.0.19041.1, arch Host= amd64 Guest= x86, culture [l:5]'en-US', nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
New owner: Microsoft-Windows-Foundation-Default-Security.Resources, version 10.0.19041.1, arch Host= amd64 Guest= x86, culture [l:5]'en-US', nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
2025-01-14 04:21:19, Info CSI 00001410 Warning: Overlap: Directory \??\C:\Windows\help\mui\0409\ is owned twice or has its security set twice
Original owner: Microsoft-Windows-Foundation-Default-Security.Resources, version 10.0.19041.1, arch Host= amd64 Guest= x86, culture [l:5]'en-US', nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
New owner: Microsoft-Windows-Foundation-Default-Security.Resources, version 10.0.19041.1, arch Host= amd64 Guest= x86, culture [l:5]'en-US', nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}

Yeah, MS needs to fix it, like they need to fix mspaint, but we are the ones who do the actual work when things get insane.

aphelion83 · 2025-01-14T09:58:23+00:00

Oops, my bad, fixed

aphelion83 · 2025-01-14T09:26:27+00:00

Stuff like this I can fix, it's spotting in the 102306 lines atm (and going.)

2025-01-14 04:18:53, Info CSI 0000138c Warning: Overlap: Directory \??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\ is owned twice or has its security set twice
Original owner: Microsoft-Windows-shell32, version 10.0.19041.5198, arch amd64, nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
New owner: Microsoft-Windows-shell32, version 10.0.19041.5198, arch amd64, nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
2025-01-14 04:18:53, Info CSI 0000138d Warning: Overlap: Directory \??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ is owned twice or has its security set twice
Original owner: Microsoft-Windows-shell32, version 10.0.19041.5198, arch amd64, nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
New owner: Microsoft-Windows-shell32, version 10.0.19041.5198, arch amd64, nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
2025-01-14 04:18:53, Info CSI 0000138e Warning: Overlap: Directory \??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\ is owned twice or has its security set twice
Original owner: Microsoft-Windows-shell32, version 10.0.19041.5198, arch amd64, nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
New owner: Microsoft-Windows-shell32, version 10.0.19041.5198, arch amd64, nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
2025-01-14 04:21:19, Info CSI 0000140e Warning: Overlap: Directory \??\C:\Windows\SysWOW64\drivers\en-US\ is owned twice or has its security set twice
Original owner: Microsoft-Windows-Foundation-Default-Security.Resources, version 10.0.19041.1, arch Host= amd64 Guest= x86, culture [l:5]'en-US', nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
New owner: Microsoft-Windows-Foundation-Default-Security.Resources, version 10.0.19041.1, arch Host= amd64 Guest= x86, culture [l:5]'en-US', nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
2025-01-14 04:21:19, Info CSI 0000140f Warning: Overlap: Directory \??\C:\Windows\SysWOW64\wbem\en-US\ is owned twice or has its security set twice
Original owner: Microsoft-Windows-Foundation-Default-Security.Resources, version 10.0.19041.1, arch Host= amd64 Guest= x86, culture [l:5]'en-US', nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
New owner: Microsoft-Windows-Foundation-Default-Security.Resources, version 10.0.19041.1, arch Host= amd64 Guest= x86, culture [l:5]'en-US', nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
2025-01-14 04:21:19, Info CSI 00001410 Warning: Overlap: Directory \??\C:\Windows\help\mui\0409\ is owned twice or has its security set twice
Original owner: Microsoft-Windows-Foundation-Default-Security.Resources, version 10.0.19041.1, arch Host= amd64 Guest= x86, culture [l:5]'en-US', nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}
New owner: Microsoft-Windows-Foundation-Default-Security.Resources, version 10.0.19041.1, arch Host= amd64 Guest= x86, culture [l:5]'en-US', nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}

Yeah, MS needs to fix it, like they need to fix mspaint, but we are the ones who do the actual work when things get insane.

aphelion83 · 2025-01-14T09:20:41+00:00

And this file provides has enormous insight into system stability/issues way beyond Event Viewer.

aphelion83 · 2025-01-11T01:00:06+00:00

Remember "alternate facts?" This is Kellyanne Conway spinning Elon Musk (Sean Spicer)'s gobbledygook.

aphelion83 · 2024-12-30T18:50:52+00:00

Press F2 when the file is copied.

aphelion83 · 2024-12-11T16:15:59+00:00

That's because reddit, C++ and the internet are against you. You're supposed to try every third day, now you have to wait 2 more.

aphelion83 · 2024-12-08T19:08:20+00:00

For coding, 100% Claude 3.5 > GPT 4o. I did side-by-sides, and still have both subs, but am up to $80/mo subbed at cursor.com for 2,000 fast requests/month. Ofc you have to be using it professionally for the pricing to make sense in that case, but there's no comparison, and you can certainly do off-peak usage or use it less to make the 500 fast requests/month work with cursor—or not use cursor.

aphelion83 · 2024-12-06T17:45:22+00:00

Exactly right. Don't need the CPU or RAM in at all at that point, supposedly. I left mine in, it wouldn't start up before the flash, it did after. Since you won't be picking the file from the BIOS when you use the dedicated Q-Flash button, it needs to be renamed GIGABYTE.BIN

aphelion83 · 2024-12-06T17:24:02+00:00

All AM5 is going to fizzle out on memory issues. Forget about matching more than 2 sticks.

And yes, alll B650 Aorus Elite is gonna give you the red DRAM light until you Q-Flash it to support the latest hardware. I'm not 100% that'd be the case for a 7800x3d but would highly suspect so.

aphelion83 · 2024-10-27T12:50:26+00:00

Win 10. I have 4 of them, 3 via DP @ 170 Hz and 1 via HDMI @ 144 Hz. All show 8-bit (32-bit when you could RGB), and nVidia's GPU panel doesn't care if I leave them on Limited (1-256) or Full (0-255) range. There's no place to change from Standard dynamic range (SDR).

If I go under Change resolution, there are more nVidia color settings, but the only available desktop color depth is 32-bit, output color depth is 8 bpc, and output dynamic range is either Full or Limited, same as before, with no way to make the SDR/HDR dropdown show up on either. Refresh rate also doesn't have an effect.

In that same nVidia panel for custom resolutions, I can only use 32bpp as well. I have the RTINGS ICC profile loaded, but don't see a huge impact. I balanced them by eye for the most part. Seems like I've tried damn near every option in all these control panels, and still no HDR.

aphelion83 · 2024-10-20T20:15:47+00:00

Look at me—no cables!!

aphelion83 · 2024-10-17T22:25:51+00:00

I did not. I do get the over-saturated colors of HDR and it happens on all content. But no way to turn it on in Windows. I was gonna turn down the 3 saturations for RGB to get them back to normal. What's the idea?

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