Windows 10 is pretty amazing. It is certainly way superior than Windows 8 or 8.1 and definitely has an edge over Windows 7. It does has a few shortcomings though. One of my pet peeves with Windows 10 is that it is quite cumbersome to find a system setting. Some of them have been hidden […]
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Installing Windows 8.1 from USB – UEFI and GPT Issues
My primary laptop is a Samsung Chronos Series 7 machine that came with Windows 8 pre-loaded. Although there was nothing wrong with it the machine did have a considerable amount of usual vendor bloat-ware that is installed on mostly every machine these days. On the recent release of Windows 8.1 I decided to do a […]
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Mmmmm geeky chocolate! I have to say I was VERY sceptical of this concept called Chocolatey first. It just didn’t resonate with me. I mean come on we are talking about firing a command shell to install software from the internet without having an opportunity to modify the install behaviour? Naaaaah! Even so I simply […]
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It was an interesting discussion I was having with a few teams off late around profiling their applications, troubleshooting some resource consumption issues and the general nature of how Windows internal works when someone made a very interesting comment about “Virtual Memory”. While the comment itself wasn’t very important the apparent misconceptions that are prevalent […]
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