Playing with AHCI link power management - HIPM/DIPM may be worth a try.
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/72971-add-ahci-link-power-management-power-options-windows.html
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Wild and crazy shot - Have you tried changing the power cable too?
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And in less/fewer Windows problem - now you can download the ISO without having to go through the Media Creation Tool: Download Windows 11
Thanks. Checked and itās defaulted to HIPM only. Neither driveās dropped in the past couple days, so might be a while to change it to HIPM+DIPM and then longer to see if that has an effect.
Have thought about it, but not yet. Since a drive only drops every few days each step of testing take can take a week or more. While changing a lot of things and just getting a fixād be nice Iām also curious to pin down where the issue is.
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I got an interesting one.
Out of nowhere it seems that ALL tasks in the Task Scheduler that trigger on Idle simply NEVER trigger anymore. Yes I am aware that what Windows considers idle is a little strange. I also know that it will only trigger the idle state if CPU usage is below 10%.
This is also true with Windows based tasks as well it would seem not just tasks that I have made.
For example I have a task that is set to trigger after 5 minutes of inactivity to restart the windows audio service because iCue broke something, More on this here iCue Forum And it has been working flawlessly, Until for whatever reason on Idle just does not trigger anymore?
Anyone got any ideas? I am a little worried about the fact that even Windows tasks are not triggering such as;
Windows 11 has been like that since day 1 if memory serves me.
Never understood the media creation tool. I mean why create the media for my pc when Iām not always going to be installing it on my computer? Who says the .iso is not for a friend or fellow tech? /end rant!
Me neither, especially when you just got the .iso when accessing from linux (as I learned a few months ago lol).
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It was like that for non-windows browsers a while back.
I can think of the following reasons through the time Iāve used it:
- Limiting access to who can download the image, just like Apple does. You can only generate an image from a Windows machine. (I disagree with this being a good thing)
- Allows to customize the ISOs with the right serial key and edition for you to download through command flags. This was very handy for me as I no longer needed to care about the installation process, once it started and I selected the drive, I could forget about everything for as long as it took to install. However, this meant that the ISO would be generated just for you. Which would make understandable the fact that it should not be publicly available (downloads through this mode have a life of 24 hours).
- Auto-generating a USB with the right format/signature out of the box. I can imagine telling my mom to go and use Rufus, deactivate Secure Boot at the BIOS/UEFI and having her to install Windows. (I understand that Windows is the only OS that can be comfortably used with Secure Boot at an install stage, please do tell me if Iām wrong with this one) (ps: read comfortably as āa person that does not know what Secure Boot isā)
Minor update: neither drive dropped in two weeks with the IronWolf and, in not quite two weeks with an MX500, neither driveās dropped either. Looks like a single SATA drive issue, though since the 2X18ās used every day no data on whether itās Mach.2 specific or affects other drive types.
Kept getting microstutters while using my computer. This guide resolved my issue for now
Will need to check alter to see if this is fully resolved
Got bitten by that 23H2 media creator build that bricks updates, this is fine like a burning dumpster fire of recent updates breaking audio
Interesting on 24H2 on an old MST hub I nearly tossed vs another that had been perfect, it can finally handle 3x 1080p external monitors 23H1 refused it
Here is mineā¦
I cloned my windows10 to a new ssd and installed it on my new desktop.
Thought I had tested everything and upgraded to windows 11.
I found out shortly after in Outlook, my Calendar (only this computer) is wiped.
So I tried to log on to the old desktop and am getting a canāt log in to your account error. Everytime I log out and back in it throws the same error.
I tried editing the registry and deleting the temp account Iām in but it didnāt work.
Any thoughts?
What type of error youāre getting? Are you using a Microsoft account? (Can you take a photo of it - censor the personal details of course - and share it back?
On the Windows 11 image/instance, did you try signing out and signing back in to Outlook and Calendar?
I took charge of creating/maintaining Windows 11 install media in my company. Among other things, I added an autounattend.xml file to limit the number of manual steps necessary at install time. However, I found that the selection of keyboard layouts seems to be limited to whatever comes with Windows. Notably, it doesnāt include an equivalent to the US International AltGr nodeadkeys keymap available in Linux.
Such keymaps exist, of course (e.g. GitHub - thomasfaingnaert/win-us-intl-altgr: United States (International) keyboard layout for Windows with AltGr dead keys only), and can be installed after the fact. Is there a possibility to include this (or another equivalent) keymap in the installation media such that it can be used at installation time, with or without autounattend.xml file?
Need to test this one, as I typically donāt have these problems. What base language/region youāre trying to install?
The base would be English (Netherlands) with US keyboard. That is easy enough to specify in the answer file but I didnāt find a way yet to add the above mentioned custom keymap, and specify it in the answer file.
So, in Windows 10 clicking the taskbar clock pops up a clock that shows seconds as well as the hour and minute. Seems like 11 has gone scorched earth about this.
- You can display seconds in the taskbar clock. Which is off by default (fine by me because itās annoying and distracting) and a hassle to go into the settings and toggle on and off when you just want to get the seconds once.
- You can add additional clocks which are displayed when clicking the taskbark clock. But they canāt be configured to show seconds.
- The Windows clock app canāt be configured to show seconds. At least through its UX, maybe thereās a registry key but if so itās getting swamped by other search hits.
- There are apparently no clock widgets you can add to the widgets pane. So using Windows+W to see seconds instead of a click doesnāt appear to be an option.
Since I donāt need to check seconds often itās not a big deal to do Get-Date or [System.DateTime]::Now in PowerShell. But Iām kind of fascinated by Microsoftās dedication to removing existing functionality. Is there really no one click way to see seconds in 11?
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Yeah this requires adding the DLL to the WIM file rather than through autounattend.xml. Back at my desk and I will try this - keep you posted.
In the meanwhile, have you tried automating the installation with a Custom Script after Windows setup?
Something-something-power-saving-excuse. If Windows was still tracking the seconds internally whether you displayed them or not, that mustāve been a waste of resources under their āsaving refresh cyclesā excuse.
However, many people have noticed this problem as well: GitHub - alexchexes/Win11Seconds: Bring back seconds to your Windows 11 tray - on click.
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Installing it after setup defeats the purpose of having it available when the OOBE screen appears, where the second step is selecting the keymap.
EDIT: or rather having it pre-selected in order to automatically skip that step.