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I'm using a PC in UEFI mode with a drive formatted as GPT with fast boot turned off in the BIOS. The drive is a 1TB drive with 96.95GB unallocated at the end of the disk, after the three Windows 10 partitions (reserved, OS and EFI). Previously I've tried Ubuntu and it had an "install alongside" option in the installer and that worked fine. Is there a trick to installing POP!_OS 21.10 with manual partitioning since it has no install alongside option? I'm trying: (Note: p1, p2 and p3 are the Windows partitions). Should the POP-BOOT partition have a specific flag? The installer completes with and error and the log says errors related to being unable to write the bootloader.

Anyone have a fix for being unable to Safely Remove a USB drive in Windows 10? For me Windows Defender seems to be either indexing/scanning the drive and never stops to allow a safe removal.

I'm shocked that most modern PC games simply don't have an in-game button to click that detects and then applies recommended settings (based off detected hardware; GPU model, CPU model and SSD speed).

Anyone know of some software that is an alternative to Nvidia GeForce Experience for optimizing PC game settings? I've used Nvidia GeForce Experience for a near "one-click optimization" in supported games in the past. With its invasive, unnecessary telemetry I wish to avoid it. My goal is to avoid manually tinkering and wasting so much time. For me: - NVIDIA GTX 1060 (6GB) - 1080p only on one monitor - Prefers framerate of 60 FPS - Prefers high or ultra quality presets (older games)

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Is there a noticeable benefit of faster loading times or better game texture streaming in PC games if I make the jump from a SATA III SSD to a faster PCIE 2.0 NVME M.2 SSD? Types of games I'd play are mostly open-world like: Fallout 4, Batman Arkham Knight, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Horizon: Zero Dawn, World War Z Details: I have an older PC that I'm considering speeding up and expanding its boot SSD storage so that I can play games with larger install sizes. Currently it has a small 111GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD (about 50GB space for games): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CrystalDiskMark 7.0.0 x64 (C) 2007-2019 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World: https://crystalmark.info/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s] * KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes [Read] Sequential 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 537.147 MB/s [ 512.3 IOPS] < 15570.33 us> Sequential 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 501.026 MB/s [ 477.8 IOPS] < 2091.03 us> Random 4KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 370.046 MB/s [ 90343.3 IOPS] < 5651.67 us> Random 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 33.151 MB/s [ 8093.5 IOPS] < 123.18 us> [Write] Sequential 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 508.533 MB/s [ 485.0 IOPS] < 16425.13 us> Sequential 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 493.595 MB/s [ 470.7 IOPS] < 2121.99 us> Random 4KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 361.734 MB/s [ 88314.0 IOPS] < 5780.24 us> Random 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 86.132 MB/s [ 21028.3 IOPS] < 47.30 us> Profile: Default Test: 128 MiB (x3) [Interval: 5 sec] <DefaultAffinity=DISABLED> Date: 2020/08/18 9:55:54 OS: Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 19041] (x64) To me it seems capped at the SATA III's connector's speed limit. The motherboard: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z97-D3H-rev-10#ov The motherboard supports: - NVME - PCIE 2.0 (not 3.0 speeds) - 2242/2260/2280 M.2 SSD - up to 10 Gb/s data transfer speed I'm considering buying a Kingston A2000 SSD 1TB NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD and then running it at the PCIE 2.0 transfer rate.

Is there a free system image software (like Acronis True Image) for Windows 10 that supports all of the following? - Incremental Backups - Encryption with Password - System Archive Splitting/Spanning (e.g. every 500MB) - File/Folder Exclusion I've tried: - Macrium Reflect Free - ToDo Backup Free - Windows Backup & Restore (Legacy Software) Be all have missing features I'd love to get more serious about backing up files.

Should MSI Afterburner's OC Scanner (generates a curve), be scanned before or after increasing the memory clock? For my situation the memory clock max that works is: 700 MHz for Destiny 2, Fallout 4, and Tomb Raider 600 MHz for Dragon Age Inquisition (game crashes on launch if higher)

I'm trying to do it in a way that only backups the user files not the OS itself, for reasons of backup speed and less disk space being needed.

Hey, does anyone know of a command line tool to backup in use/locked folders and files? Using VSS/Shadows or similar? I've only found some that haven't been updated since 2014. I'm trying to create a PowerShell script to make backups of all the user files on a PC.

At the end the day I found that a Spanned Partitions need to be on a Dynamic Disk not a Simple Disk. Windows OSs cannot be on Dynamic Disk without a workaround (not advised).

My PC is very space limited with two pretty old SSDs. I'm considering spanning a volume onto a another disk using Disk Management in Windows 10 Pro, having never done it before. I'd be doing this so that I can install PC games that are larger than 100GB. Currently I can only install games of 65GB or less on C Drive. My Current Setup: I'll make sure to create a full system image of all volumes beforehand. Can I created a spanned volume by extending the C Drive partition to D Drive while keeping the OS intact? Any other tips for this? Thanks

Hi All, Does anyone know if it's best to actually bother updating NIC driver in Windows 10? Does installing new drivers improve performance and stability? In my situation my NIC has the default driver that Windows installed, from 2011. The driver update site for me seems like it's this website. Last Updated: 2019/11/25

I noticed about a month ago, but it could have been longer.

You can rest assured that I'm only shaking the mouse like that to increase the chance of it appearing as the corrupted orange thing.