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I got it working by changing it again to AHCI in the BIOS, then forcing Windows to boot into Safemode, where it forced Windows to install the AMD SATA driver automatically. Rebooted back in to standard Windows, and AHCI is still enabled and working! And best of all, no more random freezing up and shutting down issues on this PC. It's running smooth again

I noticed one of my PCs is running in IDE mode rather than AHCI. So, I went into the registry to change the Start key value for storahci from 3 to 0, but noticed it was already set to 0. Isn't 0 still the value for using AHCI? Yet when I change IDE to AHCI in the BIOS and boot, Windows fails with a BSD error: Inaccessible Boot Device. It still boots fine in IDE mode, yet how is it running in IDE mode when the storahci start value is set to 0? Any suggestions to get AHCI working? W10 ASRock 970 Extreme4 970 Extreme P2.80 AMD FX 6300 6 Core

Someone opened a document on my wife's PC, so I was going to try to figure out when it was last accessed, but I noticed this behavior of setting the current time/date with Windows when I tested it on my PC. Fortunately, I haven't tried it directly on her file yet, so maybe there is still a chance. She doesn't have her PC set to logoff after inactivity so it's always available to anyone. So it makes it harder to pinpoint when it happened, especially if I can't even check the last accessed property of the file.

I noticed that if I right click on any file on my W10 PC and click Properties, the Accessed time/date changes to whatever the current date/time is. Why is this? What good is trying to check when a file was last accessed if every time you check it, it's just going to change to whatever the current date/time is? I'm going to check on another PC when I get a chance to see if it's maybe just something with my PC, unless someone can confirm this is how W10 is now, or maybe has always been.

Thanks for the suggestions!

I'm trying to create a USB bootable W10 v1703 using only the Recovery portion of the iso file. I don't need it to install Windows, only need it for troubleshooting Windows. I can't remember if the Recovery image is in the install.wim or boot.wim or maybe somewhere else. Anyhow, is this possible, and will it decrease the size of the iso? I know removing other OS versions from install.wim does not significantly decrease the size because they all share common files within the install.wim. But since I only need the Recovery image and not any of the other OSs, I'm hoping this will allow a much smaller iso.

That did it! Not sure how I missed that "obvious" option. I agree, it does seem pretty pointless. May just disable it for good this time.

Using Window 10 22H2, I just noticed when opening my start menu, it now has over 100 or so apps listed under Recently Added Apps. It appears to be showing everything installed as new or recently added for some reason. Removing them one by one will take forever! Is there a registry setting or something that will allow me to remove all of them or clear this list? Disabling the option Show Recently Added Apps under Settings > Personalization > Start, does not clear this list, it ONLY disables/hides it, so re-enabling it brings all of them back. I just want to clear this list quickly without manually right clicking on each app, selecting "Remove from this list". Also, curious how this happened in the first place as most of these apps have been installed for years.

Does anyone know how to disable the HP Cartridge Protection on a HP LaserJet 5200? I keep getting a message "Non-Genuine Cartridge Installed". I'm very aware it's not genuine, but I've read over the internet, even from HP reps, that state you can use non-genuine cartridges, but you must first disable the HP Cartridge Protection option to allow this. I've posted over at the HP forums about 2 weeks ago, and I haven't received one reply. I have searched through the menu many times over, and have not seen this HP Cartridge Protection option or anything similar. Is this HP Cartridge Protection only available on certain models, or newer printers only? I have both an HP LaserJet 5200 and 5200tn, and neither seem to have this option or I'm just looking in the wrong places for it. If this cartridge protection option is not available for this model, does anyone know of another way to get it to work? The label on the box says it's HT-Q7516A-N25, and is suitable for use with HP LaserJet 5200/5200n/5200tn/5200dtn. It was purchased from InkTonerStore.com. Thanks Mike

Perfect! I agree, though I had an extra 2.5 SAS drive with the right capacity to backup the entire system

I have a Dell PowerEdge T320 (7KNLW12) with a PERC H710 Adapter. It has 8 slots on the front for inserting HDDs. The first 3 are occupied for our RAID 5. I wanted to backup the entire system, so I inserted another drive into one of the free slots, but Windows would not recognize the drive, only the RAID adapter could see it. So, apparently you can't just simply insert a drive into one of the free slots on the front backplane and expect to use it in Windows as a regular drive, like for backups. So, with knowing this, can I create a separate RAID or VD for only this drive, so I can then use it to make a full, complete system backup of the current RAID? I started to try this, but then I got the message "It is recommended that all newly created logical drives be initialized...etc..." I couldn't find any place to initialize it, so I canceled to be safe.

I'm looking to extend my WIFI about 200ft from my cabin to my friend's cabin who is just across a small pond with a clear line of sight. My internet is not great as I could only get Hughesnet, which gives me only 25mb/3mb. We don't really care about streaming movies or TV, etc., but we do like the ability to use WIFI Calling since we have no phone service here. Any recommendations for an outdoor directional AP that would be a good and reasonable fit for such a setup? Considering the receiving devices from my friend's cabin such as his phone will have weak transmitting power to send back, would we need to mount two directional APs? (I assume this would be a point to point connection) I really don't want to put a lot of money into it since the speeds provided by Hughesnet are so slow, especially the upload. I wish StarLink was available here.

Running Windows Server 2012 R2, I would like to create a System backup, though exclude certain files/folders that are already backed up to other media. The server is running a RAID 5 with 3 disks, so I will be backing up a virtual disk if that makes any difference. I'm thinking the Windows Server Backup is not able to do this, so was looking for any suggestions/recommendations. I will be adding a 4th disk to the RAID 5 tomorrow, and so want to make sure I have a reliable backup of the System in case of failure. My database and other essential files (~280GBs) are backed up daily to a 300GB removable media drive, but I have no actual backup of the System drive. I only have one spare 300GB media drive, so backing up the entire system which includes the database would greatly exceed the capacity of this backup media. Fortunately, the database and its files are already backed up to the other 300GB media drive, so I just need to backup the remaining System drive, excluding the database.

I'm trying to learn more about subnetting and came across the following which confused me. So, a Class A which is 255.0.0.0 or /8 can have 16,777,214 hosts and 0 subnets, at least that's what a chart I have shows. Yet, I've always known that Class A can have 127 networks. Am I confusing the terms subnet and network, as I always thought they meant the same as in dividing up the IP addresses into different networks/subnets? If they are actually different, then I'm really confused.

Where does the command net users acquire its list of usernames? I'm curious now, because it is showing the username Drew that I can't find anywhere in Windows. 1. Not listed under the ProfileList in the registry 2. Not shown in the Windows Users Accounts 3. Not found in the Users directory of the drive I ran net user drew, and I now see where it came from due to this comment left by the software that created it. Comment "For EaseUS Todo Backup Central Management Console" I know I can easily remove this username using the net command, but I'm more curious how net users is finding this username when it's not even listed under the ProfileList in the registry. Update: After doing a search through the registry, I found the username was listed under Winlogon>SpecialAccounts. Though it was just the name, so still not sure how the net user command still showed the user's details when I typed net user drew. I deleted the entry and rebooted, and now the username is showing under the Windows User Account, though it is still not present under the ProfileList in the registry. I'm assuming this is b/c I have never logged into this account, and the key will not be created until I do.