New album AC/DC – Power Up is out. I had preordered it and arrived earlier this week but I just got a chance to listen to it all the way through.
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Win10 – Get Auto-Login Back
Win10 20H2 removed yet another setting. I guess this is Microsoft’s attempt of protecting users from themselves. Yes, auto-login is a security risk. But that’s our business, not Microsoft’s.
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Win10 – Get The Old System Properties Shortcut Back
Win10 20H2 has removed the standard System Properties from Windows shortcuts. For instance, pressing the Windows + Pause Break keys now bring up the new System Properties window.
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Veterans Day 2020
Happy Veterans Day brothers and sisters. Had I the ability, I would buy you all a beer today.
Excellent article by a fellow Virginian (yeah, I choked up when I read it):
What Does It mean to be a Veteran – David Reavis
“Being a veteran is being part of a brother/sister hood, it is something that you carry with you for the rest of your life. The experience’s that you live through which you are very thankful that you did are life-altering events and can change a person within a split second.
Being a veteran means learning that the measure of a person is WHO they are not WHAT they are. Learning that the person who is a little different from you, is really just like you. They love, they fear, they care, they laugh and they cry…”
According to the Census Bureau there are 17,418,351 veterans that make up 6.9% of the adults in this country.
Period of Service
Gulf War (9/2001 or later) – 3,772,708 21.7%
Gulf War (8/1990 to 8/2001)- 3,834,993 22.0%
Vietnam era veterans – 6,192,877 35.6%
Korean War veterans – 1,156,096 6.6%
World War II veterans – 380,327 2.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau – Veterans Day 2020: Nov. 11 and the spreadsheet below I made was from https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=veterans&t=Veterans&tid=ACSST1Y2019.S2101&hidePreview=true
My spreadsheet: https://www.tweakhound.com//files/usvetstats2019.xlsx
Site Dimension Changes
I’ve changed the dimensions of the site to a larger size. I’ve also removed the sidebar of the Win10 Tweak Guide.
This site and my guides are screen shot heavy and I want to be able to provide larger images for clarity.
Please let me know if you have issues.
Patch Tuesday
Windows Update
You should be on 20H2, 2004, or 1909. I now have 5 PC’s running Win10 20H2, one running Windows 7 (no network), and 1 running TrueNAS.
Win10 1909 – November 10, 2020—KB4586786 (OS Builds 18362.1198 and 18363.1198)
Win10 2004 & 20H2 – November 10, 2020—KB4586781 (OS Builds 19041.630 and 19042.630)
New Graphics Drivers
AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.11.1 Optional (11/6/2020)
Nvidia Geforce Game Ready Drivers 457.30 WHQL (11/9/2020)
Intel Graphics Windows 10 DCH Drivers (Version: 27.20.100.8935 Date: 11/6/2020)
Browser Updates
Google Chrome 86.0.4240.193 (1 security fix)
Firefox 82.0.3 (1 security fix)
Other Software
Cleanmgr+ 1.36.1141
EMDB 3.70
Off Topic
Veteran’s Day Deals For Vets
A ton of restaurants are offering something. Many national retailers are giving 10% off.
Military.com – 2020 Veterans Day Retail Deals and Discounts
Noteworthy:
Food Lion 10% off “active military, veterans and their families should present their MVP card, along with military identification”
Office Depot and OfficeMax 25% off “Valid in Office Depot and OfficeMax stores only for all Veterans, Active Duty Military Personnel, Retirees, Reservists, and their dependents. Must present a valid Military ID, Military Dependent ID, or form of Veteran ID at the time of purchase.
Publix “Veterans, active military personnel, and their families are invited to save 10% on groceries on Wednesday, November 11, 2020.”
Staples 25% off
Hot deals today! Up to 30% off on Data Storage from Seagate, Western Digital and more
Samsung (MZ-V7S1T0B/AM) 970 EVO Plus SSD 1TB – M.2 NVMe
List Price $249.99
With Deal: $149.99 & FREE Shipping
You Save: $100.00 (40%)
Site Update
Thanks for the folks who inquired about me. All is well it’s just that life has been very busy. It’s starting to calm down a bit now.
In my spare time I’ve upgraded one system and added another.
I bought a Gigabyte Aorus Z390 Elite motherboard and I7-9700KF CPU off of Craigslist for a sweet deal. A side benefit to this was the original owner had activated Win10 on this board. So, when I installed Win10 it activated automatically.
I disassembled my ASRock Z77 Extreme4 secondary computer. If it doesn’t sell at a good price I may turn it into a NAS. Really all I need is is 3 drives and I’m set.
I put the I7-9700KF in my old computer running a Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 motherboard. (Not sure what to do with the I7-8700K that came off it.)
I put together the new mobo with:
I9-9900KF
Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) 3200MHz C16 DDR4 DRAM Memory Kit
Samsung 980 Pro SSD.
the XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS Black Edition I already had
(Would love to upgrade to something like the XFX RX 5700 Xt Thicc III Ultra 8GB but I’m not paying that kind of $ for a video card. Maybe we’ll see what Black Friday brings).
There is no super overclocking. I’ve bumped both up to 5GHz on all cores locked. The RAM has been set to spec speed and timings. Both rigs water-cooled.
As always, these rigs are built to be all-purpose workhorses, not “gaming rigs”. The old rig will be doing a lot of ripping and video stuff.
I now have 3 rigs on Win10 20H2. They are running like a Swiss watch. That means a new tweak guide should be available by years end (hopefully sooner).
Newest rig:
Old rig updated:
RIP Eddie Van Halen
Eddie Van Halen, Hall of Fame Guitarist Who Revolutionized Instrument, Dead at 65
Eddie was absolutely the most popular guitarist of my generation, frequently winning “greatest guitarist” honors.
I guess I saw Van Halen play maybe 4 or 5 times. I went through a few months of personally boycotting Van Halen after Eddie married Valerie Bertinelli. I had a massive crush on her!
Thursday Random Stuff…
AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.9.1 Optional Drivers
A dozen fixes.
Download | Release Notes
Nvidia Geforce Game Ready 456.38 WHQL Driver
“Game Ready for Fortnite RTX…In addition, this release also provides optimal day-1 support for Halo 3: ODST and Mafia: The Definitive Edition.”
Download | Release Notes
Off Topic
Republic of Doyle
“Jake Doyle and his father Malachy run a private investigations agency in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Their cases involve them in all sorts of dealings – not all of them on the right side of the law.”
Been streaming this. Original air date was 2010-2014. It’s on Netflix and Amazon Prime and I’m enjoying it. Lots of guest appearances from stars in shows like Gladiator, Battlestar Galactica, The Orville, Alias, and even a Playmate appear.
U.S. Adult Obesity Rate Tops 42 Percent; Highest Ever Recorded
“The U.S. adult obesity rate passed the 40 percent mark for the first time, standing at 42.4 percent, according to State of Obesity: Better Policies for a Healthier America released today by Trust for America’s Health (TFAH). The national adult obesity rate has increased by 26 percent since 2008.”
I don’t listen to Country radio anymore. That genre left me behind long ago. But, this appeared on the internet today…
The Academy of Country Music Awards were last night (awards shows are at the top of my DGAF list) and Eric Church gave one of his gritty, rockin’ country songs a twist. He started it off with Johnny Cash’s Ragged Old Flag. Goosebumps y’all…
(apologies for the Facebook video. If someone see a full quality video posted somewhere else please let me know.)
Eric Church – Stick That In Your Country Song
Wednesday Random Stuff…
Samsung SSD Magician 6.2
New features include:
Full Scan in Diagnostic Scan –pause and resume added.
SMART Self-test in Diagnostic Scan –more precise feature for device diagnostic.
Help contents and GUI –reformed for more convenience.
Settings -easier to use with fine-tuning
Download | Install Guide
VMware Player 16
Download | Release Notes
EMDB 3.67
2 releases in 2 weeks. Lots of new stuff.
Download | Release Info
Intel Graphics Windows 10 DCH Drivers
Download | Release Notes
Intel Wifi Drivers
Windows 10 only
Download | Release Notes
CCleaner got updated. Done recommending that. Too many decent alternatives.
Off Topic
Survey finds ‘shocking’ lack of Holocaust knowledge among millennials and Gen Z
Sixty-three percent of those surveyed did not know 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. Over half of those thought the toll was under 2 million.
I’ve been to the Dachau camp. The visit was, and is, haunting.