Hi everyone, In this post, we will be telling you how to use the Apple USB SuperDrive Optical Unit on Windows 11. If you connect this unit to your Windows 11 PC, laptop or tablet, you will be surprised that it doesn’t work. This is because Apple has made this drive react to certain MacBook models. Windows does recognize this device, and will show as Apple SuperDrive USB Device, but that’s about it. It will not do anything: The good…
Hi everyone, Today, we will be benchmarking the Samsung 870 EVO SSD on Windows in the HP 2000-2c20NR laptop. This laptop uses an Ivy Bridge Intel Pentium 2020M clocked at 2.40Ghz. We will be using CrystalDiskMark to perform the benchmark. If you need to download and install this tool, click here for the download and install instructions. Benchmarking the drive We will open CrystalDiskMark, where you should see the following software interface: Because our SSD is the drive C:, we…
Hi everyone, Recently, I came into this issue where my Lenovo Y720 laptop, with an Intel Core i7-7700HQ CPU seems to be stuck at running at 0.78Ghz even when the power options are set to High Performance. This issue would persist even when the machine is shut down and powered on again, for some reason. The task manager looks like this in this case: Laptops, especially those with dedicated graphics, would throttle down the CPU sometimes if the temperature gets…
Hi everyone, In this post, we’ll learn how easy it is to burn a Windows 10 ISO image that we’ve created to a DVD disc using ImgBurn. This is the best tool available to burn ISO images and it’s the most recommended software to use. It is also free and it can verify a disc after it is burned to make sure that the disc burned successfully. The best way to go straight to ImgBurn and burn the image is…
Hi everyone, Yesterday, we got another update of Windows 10 released to the Release Preview channel. This update has a Knowledge Base number of KB5010415 and brings Windows to the following versions: Windows 10 20H2 19042.1561 Windows 10 21H1 19043.1561 Windows 10 21H2 19044.1561 I usually downloaded Windows updates from uup.rg-adguard.net but I am giving uupdump.net a try. The process is very straightforward and follows almost the same steps we did to download Windows 11 UUP files. There are 2…
Hi everyone, Today, I will show you how to download Windows 11 UUP files from uupdump.net. This seems to be the most reliable way to get the Windows 11 UUP files that are needed to build an ISO, as previously, I’ve had issues with some downloads from uup.rg-adguard.net. The issue I’ve been having is with the “Upgrade to Windows 11” version that’s shown under the “Windows (Insider version)” category. That option always seem to download very small files, and uup-converter-wimlib…
Hi everyone, Yesterday, Windows 11 Cumulative Update KB5008215 was released. As usual, I attempt to download the UUP files to create and archive the Windows 11 update. One thing of this update is that it was not released under the Cumulative Update section but as an “Upgrade to Windows 11 (22000.376)” UUP. For some reason, when attempting to create the Windows ISO image using this “Upgrade to Windows 11”, it seems to download invalid files, and the whole process fails….
Hi everyone, On the past few days, I struggled on making a Windows 11 ISO for the version 22000.318. For some reason, uup-converter-wimlib failed to create it and it seems it may have to do with some weird downloads. Yesterday, we got the version 22000.346 and I also downloaded the UUP files for it. uup-converter-wimlib was able to create an ISO for this version, so clearly something is wrong with the 22000.318 files. In fact, looking at the UUP file…
Hi everyone, In these days, I have attempted to upgrade 2 non-TPM machines from the Windows 11 build 22000.194 straight to the build 22468. The machines I was trying to update have the following CPUs: Intel i7-3610QM Intel i7-4700MQ I’ve been patching the Windows ISOs with the Win 11 Boot and Upgrade Kit. However, Unfortunately, every time I ran the Windows setup and proceeded to the installation step, I ran into the following message at 0%: I did a bit…
Hi everyone, Today, I have released CMIX GUI v1.9: This new version adds the cmix v19 compressor version released last month. cmix v19 brings the following improvement: For a benchmark and compression results on this new cmix version, check the cmix forum post at the encode.su forum here. You can download this new version on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 9