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Win10 – Get Auto-Login Back

November 13, 2020, 08:19(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound) 3 Comments

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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Tagged With: How-To's, This Site, Windows 10

Win10 – Get The Old System Properties Shortcut Back

November 12, 2020, 12:06(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound) 4 Comments

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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Site Dimension Changes

November 11, 2020, 09:00(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound) 4 Comments

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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.

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Site Update

October 28, 2020, 11:04(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound) 7 Comments

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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:

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My O&O ShutUp10 Settings – 12JUNE2020

June 12, 2020, 08:42(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound) 3 Comments

Download O&O ShutUp10
This is meant to be a starting point. You must use your head.
I don’t use the Microsoft Store and I only use the basic default apps like camera, calculator, video, etc.
This program can break things if you don’t pay attention.
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My O&O ShutUp10 Settings – 02JUNE2020

June 2, 2020, 14:57(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound) 5 Comments

New settings: https://www.tweakhound.com/2020/06/12/my-oo-shutup10-settings-12june2020/

Tagged With: How-To's, This Site, Windows 10

Recording an online video as a sound file

April 26, 2020, 14:16(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound) 12 Comments

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Recording an online video as a sound file (Recording video as mp3)
I’m gonna first start off by saying this:
In general I do not believe in stealing other peoples work. I’m the guy that still buys CD’s and rips them. Yeah I know, “Ok Boomer“. I’ll take that even thought I’m not technically a “boomer”.
A couple of days ago I posted a video by The Offspring that is a cover of a band called the Clinton Johnson band (I looked high and low and I can’t find the original outside of the Tiger King Youtube version). Anyway, I’m pretty sure The Offspring don’t have publishing rights to it and if they do they haven’t released a single. I wanna listen to it on my phone so I’m gonna convert it. If they release a quality mp3 I will buy it (flac would be better). Yes, I know there are apps that will do this. I don’t trust them and I want control over the process.
So all that out of the way here is, IMHO, the best way to record online video as a sound file. As usual I’m gonna do this short and sweet…

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Old Photos – How I Digitized Them

October 23, 2019, 12:10(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

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I’ve finally begun to scan my old photos. I’ll show you the hardware and software I decided on. I wanted something fast and easy.
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Tagged With: Backup, Computer Hardware, How-To's, Software, This Site

Cat6 vs Cat8 cable

September 2, 2019, 14:33(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

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I decided to see if replacing Cat6 ethernet able with Cat8 makes any difference. I had my suspicions, I mean it shouldn’t but anecdotal evidence said “maybe”.
So I ran some quick iPerf tests.
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My New Network

August 22, 2019, 10:49(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

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I’ve completely redone my network.
I had problems with my old router. I considered replacing the firmware with DD-WRT but I decided against that. After reanalyzing things I decided the old router just couldn’t handle the number of devices and traffic on my network (despite its specs). It simply didn’t have the horsepower. I’ve replaced it with the one below.
[Read more…] about My New Network

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