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    Hyper-V

    Hyper-V VM on physical disk instead of VHD file

    December 8, 2020, Comments Off

    Storing a Hyper-V virtual machine directly on physical disk, instead of a VHD file, is a practical method to speed up the VM. In addition, it makes it easy to switch from VM to real, physical dual boot, when required. Confusing? Let me explain.

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    Kari's Blog

    Win10.guru – back in business

    December 1, 2020, 3 Comments

    Greetings dear subscribers and visitors. It has been quite quiet here on WIn10.guru past few weeks, due various reasons. Starting today, December 1st, 2020, the things are back to normal. From now on, we will publish new content on every weekday.

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    Kari's Blog

    Windows Questions – SevenForums, EightForums & TenForums got a new sister

    November 12, 2020, Comments Off

    I have been a proud and satisfied member of Windows forums owned and maintained by Designer Media Ltd from Manchester, UK. The company’s Windows forums, (Vista Forums, Seven Forums, Eight Forums, Ten Forums) have been my virtual home since June, 2009. I have enjoyed my time on these forums, participating on them has been my…

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    Thunderbolt NVMe SSD BSOD

    20H1

    Certain Thunderbolt NVMe SSDs Provoke 2004 or 20H2 BSOD

    November 6, 2020, Comments Off

    Following upgrades to Windows 10 2004 or 20H2 on PCs with Thunderbolt-attached NVMe drives, users may experience a Driver_Verifier_DMA_Violation BSOD. Probably best to avoid such hardware (or roll back Windows) until they get it fixed.

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    Front view of 7080 (Dell publicity photo)

    Desktop tools

    Dell Optiplex 7080 Micro Is a Pint-sized Powerhouse

    November 5, 2020, Comments Off

    Interestingly enough, at around the same time I bought a Dell Optiplex 7080 Micro to replace a 9-year-old mini-ITX PC here at my home, the Dell Technologies business review team sent me a review unit of the same make and model. It’s more tricked out than I was willing to buy (I’ll provide the specs…

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    Broken glass (Adrien Olichon/Pexels)

    Editorial

    Rumors About 21H1 Suggest Enablement Package Not Feature Upgrade

    November 4, 2020, 2 Comments

    Rumors are swirling that MS is about to pivot to focus on Windows 10X, with Windows 10 21H1 very likely to take the form of an enablement package like the recently-released 20H2. As with most MS rumors, the company is mum, so we’ll have to wait and see if this pans out.

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    Deployment

    Create a custom Windows ISO image

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    I wrote last week about adding / enabling or removing / disabling Windows optional features on USB-based install media. You can read that story here: PS Scripting – USB install media: Add or Remove Windows Features But, what to do when you wish to do the same using an ISO image? No problem: simply mount…

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    Dell Precision 5550 Mobile Workstation sideview

    20H2

    First Look: Dell Precision Workstation P-5550

    November 2, 2020, 1 Comment

    Last Friday, FedEx dropped off a Dell Precision 5500 Mobile workstation with 8-core i7, Quadro T2000 graphics, 32 GB RAM and a 1 TB NVMe SSD. I’m still setting it up and getting to know this machine, but what I’ve seen so far, I like. Check it out!

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