Recent content by mubs

Yikes! Tons of real world experience speaking! Thanks Merc.

Doesn't the scale go up in steps of 25 starting at 100? How are you setting it at 130? Unless it works differently on laptops. BTW, Can't remember: who was Hawkeye in SF? The guy who used to scale it down and use tiny fonts on his screen?

As usual, you da man, Merc! Thanks a mil! I'm trying Small icons and 100% scaling. Will probably get used to this. You know, I've searched on Google massively the last few days for various issues. It's amazing how much ignorance and crap there is out there. For the icon size issue, the only...

What's with the blimp-sized desktop icons in W11? Any way to use "Small Icons" like W10? Sheesh. I've set display to 100% instead of the default/recommended 125%, but still don't like how everything looks. Desktop icons are too squished, and app windows are tiny.

My bad. The ISO is 24H2. Was a typo. It's from April. Thanks Merc.

A couple of days ago I downloaded the W11 22H2 iso, Rufussed it with some options to a USB stick. Did an in-place upgrade on my desktop. Went ok. Installed some updates, including the latest .Net and experience pack or whatever. After rebooting it said there were problems and uninstalled both...

I used Windows Update on the laptop to upgrade from factory W10 to W11, so the update definitely came from legit sources. As I found out, this was stupid; I should have downloaded the latest ISO and upgraded from that. I did subsequently download the ISO from the official link and got 24H2. Used...

Thanks Merc. Why do big companies do stupid things like this, DD? According to Wikipedia, MS installed a version of W11 on my laptop for which support ended on 8 Oct 2024. Awesome, no? :mad:

The beast has been slayed. In the VM, the "Install VMWare Tools" was grayed out, so I assumed it was already installed. In fact during the conversion of the live system to a VM, this is a question that is asked and I specifically said Yes. Also my physical DVD drive is connected to a power...

Thanks Merc, will look into these.

I created a VM Win7 Technet key --> 10. Worked Fine. Did an in-place upgrade to W11; didn't activate. That VM showed a lock icon on it. I used your Massgrave script to fix it. Anyway, will try inplace upgrade, and if it doesn't activate, will use the script. But would like to get the VM of my...

My VMs created from scratch work well. All VMs are on an NVME SSD. I was probably an early adopter of Workstation (2001), but have been using Player for many years. Don't know where dynamic RAM allocation is. Can't find anything relevant under Edit VM setting \ Memory. For Disk, Max Size 320...

I used VMWare Converter to make a VM of my live system. I gave the VM 6 cores out of my 12-core Ryzen 9 5900x; gave it 32 GB. It's unusable. There is so much mouse lag I couldn't even close a window or do anything. Task manager shows less than 3GB RAM consumed, but CPU maxxed out. Does...

Is there a latest / greatest guide to de-crapifying W11 after it's installed? I plan on an in-place upgrade.

Thanks Merc. I suspect it won't activate because my install is a Technet W7 upgraded to W10. When I tried this in a VM, W11 did not activate. But Massgrave fixed that. So I suspect I'll have to go thru the same for my live install. I plan to use VMWare Converter to make a VM of my live install...