Tech Tips
In this blog I give you tips tricks and lessons that I've gathered in various techs.
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Saturday, June 8, 2024
Moto G power 2021 cast to TV
settings > Connected Devices > Connection Preferences > Cast
tv should show up on the list. make sure tv is connect to same Wifi network as phone. tv only needs to be turned on.
Monday, April 10, 2023
Project64 lags on fullscreen
- download latest dev build from official site (not public stable, but dev)
- use Jacob's D3D gfx plugin
Monday, January 23, 2023
Windows Aero Peek Preview taskbar setting grayed out fix
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/47266-turn-off-peek-desktop-windows-10-a.html#option4
Use any of the above options...bat file is easiest
Sunday, January 22, 2023
OBS running on Laptop? Black screen when capturing?
https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/laptop-black-screen-when-capturing-read-here-first.5965/
For Windows 10 1909 or newer:
Open Settings and search for "Graphics Settings". Select "Classic App" and browse to C:\Program Files\obs-studio\bin\64bit\obs64.exe (or wherever you have installed OBS). Click "Options"Saturday, January 21, 2023
Clone HDD to nvme SSD
1. use free 30 day trial of Macrium (https://pureinfotech.com/clone-windows-10-hard-drive-ssd-macrium-reflect/). select all necessary partitions you want to clone from the source drive.
2. After cloning is complete, use Easy BCD to add the clone drive as default boot drive. You can remove the old drive as a boot option in easybcd as well, otherwise windows gives you a option to select which drive to boot from every time you restart.
Thursday, January 12, 2023
laptop (Inspiron 17 7773 with the 8th gen Core processor support PCIe NVME
https://www.dell.com/community/Laptops-General-Read-Only/Inspiron-17-7773-2in1-Hard-Drive-SSD-M2-question/td-p/5186371/page/2
I can confirm that this laptop does support PCIe NVME drives on the M.2 slot (so the Canadian site is correct). I just got this same laptop (Inspiron 17 7773 with the 8th gen Core processor), except that mine came with a 1TB hard drive.