An individual has even tried Windows 10 and Windows 11 in a dual-boot setup and has observed that the battery timing with Windows 11 is almost 2 hours, whereas, with Windows 10, it was nearly 4 hours on the same laptop! Note that this is not an issue with Windows 11, but rather your settings and preferences along with the applications and tasks running in the background causing Windows 11 to drain your battery relevantly faster....
You can also use the headphone jacks on your computer to play audio from another device, listen to it from the built-in speakers, and also connect external speakers and listen through it. Many users aren’t aware of this feature. This feature is available in Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. How to hear yourself on mic in Windows 10 Listening to oneself through a speaker can help you with a speech, and how you may sound like to others....
We tend to download the drivers from the vendor once, and then keep them safe to install again and again. If you have upgraded Windows 8.1, Windows 10 or Windows 11 from Windows 7, it will not let you install drivers used in Windows 7 or prior Operating Systems. Since Windows 11 is new, there are not many companies that have provided drivers with their components and devices for Windows 11, but you can use most of the Windows 10 drivers in Windows 11 without any issues....
Why are these features not included in Windows 10 N Edition? This is because of European laws. N stands for No Media. European competition authorities forbid companies to package media products inside of Windows to make sure other media companies can compete with Microsoft on the Windows platform. The story is similar in the case of Windows 10 KN Edition. Microsoft abides by the Korean laws and does not add the multimedia functionality by default in Windows....
However, occasionally, these hidden and protected files and folders need to be accessed to make informed changes, like the pagefile.sys. Therefore, one needs to be able to view and access them. In this post, we are going to show you multiple ways to view and access the hidden and protected system files in both Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems. Before we dig into the methods to view these hidden files and folders, there is some insight we would like to share with our readers....
Windows 7 had a startup option: “Boot with last known good configuration” which was highly useful if the computer could not boot to the login screen. Windows 10 is missing this feature. If you have not enabled the System Restore feature in Windows 10, then it becomes more complex to recover the unbootable system. If the system is unable to boot after the last Windows update, you can uninstall the update even without logging into Windows....
Hydra 1.2 To Feature AMD Zen 4 Tuning & Overclocking Capabilities Along With RX-Tuner Radeon GPU Tuning Support Announced back in July 2021, the Hydra Tuning utility for AMD Ryzen CPUs was designed as a successor to the CTR (Clock Tuner For Ryzen), offering a new interface and a simpler way to tune and optimize Ryzen CPUs. Since its release, the utility has received several updates and currently offers: Automatically find Curve Optimizer (CO) values Combine PBO + CO and manual OC Modify or create your own Voltage/Frequency curve Change CO in real-time and observe which cores are the bottleneck Create your own “boost”, which consists of dynamic profiles Evaluate the quality of the sample and find the ideal voltages Perform undervolting...
I’ll admit, I might be too old for this too-cool-for-school aesthetic, but Hyenas’ gameplay does look intriguing. In a welcome bit of news, Creative Assembly also confirms the game won’t have any “pay-to-win” mechanics, although I’m guessing cosmetics are still in the mix. Need to know more? Here are the game’s key features. Are you liking the concept? You can be one of the first play Hyenas by signing up for the game’s alpha, right here....
ICY DOCK Shows Off Its Next-Gen PCIe Gen5 M.2 & E1.S SSD Adapter Cards With Active-Cooling Tech Both adapter cards that ICY DOCK has showcased are currently a concept only. The docks include the CP125 and the CP073. Starting off with the CP125, we have a standard FHFL expansion card & make use of a single-slot design. The card features a PCIe5 x8 interface and can support up to two E1....
Intel To Go Insane With 13th Gen Raptor Lake Clock Speeds, Flagship Core i9-13900K Expected To Rock Up To 5.8 GHz Clocks Intel’s 13th Gen Raptor Lake Desktop CPUs are expected to be an evolution of the 12th Gen Alder Lake family. Both are based on a hybrid core architecture with the former utilizing the x86 Golden Cove and the latter utilizing the Raptor Cove cores. Both Alder Lake & Raptor Lake feature Intel’s Gracemont Atom cores known as E-Cores though Raptor Lake will increase the overall quantity of such cores to 16 from the existing 8....
Intel Confirms Components Price Hike Including CPUs, Taking Effect From Q4 2022 During its Q2 2022 earnings call, Intel reported that it has missed both Revenue and EPS targets by double-digit percent. Both, Intel’s Client Computing and Datacenter segments saw a huge downfall in terms of revenue and while the company reiterates that they are trying to do better and have a very good set of products coming out in the second half of 2022, Chipzilla will issue a price hike on the majority of those components including CPUs....
The company celebrates the legacy of inventions by renaming the Ronler Acres campus to recognize Intel co-founder Gordon Moore. — Ann Kelleher, executive vice president and general manager of Technology Development, Intel RibbonFET, which is the first new transistor architecture in over ten years. PowerVia, a new backside power delivery method, is a first for the industry. The utilization of High NA EUV next-gen lithography. With “Mod3” – a more than $3 billion investment to expand D1X – Intel engineers now have an extra 270,000 square feet of space to design next-gen silicon process technologies....
Intel’s Arc Alchemist ‘Xe-HPG’ Integrated GPUs on Next-Gen Meteor Lake CPUs Get Preliminary Support The latest commit for Intel’s Meteor Lake CPUs was added by Pete Chou for the IGC (Intel Graphics Compiler). The main focus of this new commit is to enable support for the 14th Gen Meteor Lake CPUs and the integrated GPUs featured within it. The Intel Meteor lake CPUs will be the first to get the same graphics architecture that’s featured on the desktop and mobile lineup....
Intel W790 Chipset Confirmed: Fishhawk Falls Platform For Intel Sapphire Rapids W-3400 “Workstation” CPU Lineup The Intel W790 chipset was leaked last year in a desktop CPU roadmap which gave us the first indication of the existence of the said chipset. Now, Intel themselves have confirmed the W790 chipset within their own official documentation for the 600-series chipset family. Surprisingly, it looks like the W790 chipset is part of the existing 600-series PCH family while using a 700-series naming scheme....
Intel HEDT Sapphire Rapids Xeon W-3400 & W-2400 CPUs In Q4 2022, 13th Gen Raptor Lake-S Desktop CPUs in October 2022 We have known for some time now that Intel is working on its brand new desktop CPU lineup for 2022 which includes both HEDT & mainstream parts. The Intel HEDT family will comprise of brand new Sapphire Rapids chips which will be branded as the Xeon W-3400 & Xeon W-2400 series SKUs while the mainstream family will comprise of 13th Gen Raptor Lake-S CPUs....
iOS 15 Jailbreak to Release Soon With Support for iOS 15.0 to iOS 15.1.1 Coming First If you have an iPhone X or older model that runs a version of iOS 15, you have the option to jailbreak your device right now. This is due to the fact that the iPhone X and older models feature a hardware exploit that can not be patched via a software update. What this means is that the exploit rests at the bootrom level....
iOS 16.1 Beta Has Been Released to Developers - Check Out The List of Major Features Apple has released iOS 16.1 beta 1 to developers and public beta testers that you can install on your compatible iPhone models right now from the Apple Developer Center. If you are unfamiliar with what is new in the latest build, we have compiled a list of features that you can expect to be made available next month....
iOS 16 to Feature Support for Always-On Mode For iPhone 14 Pro Models, “Social Network-Like Functionality” in Messages In his latest Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman suggests some of the changes that he expects to come with iOS 16 at the WWDC 2022. According to the report, the upcoming build will feature an enhanced Lock Screen with “wallpapers that have widgets-like capabilities.” The new Lock Screen features in iOS 16 will potentially pave way for Always-On functionality coming with iPhone 14 Pro models later this year....
The Pill-Shaped Cutout on iPhone 14 Pro Might Not Look Bad After All According to information coming from MacRumors, the pill and hole cutouts are not virtually separated when the display is powered on instead, they appear as a single, longer pill shape. Rather than going with an uneven look, Apple has decided to turn off the Pixels in the empty space between the cutouts, giving a more unified appearance which will be a lot less distracting when watching something or simply viewing content....
Despite a Smaller Capacity, the iPhone 14 Pro Max Beats Last Year’s Flagship in Battery Test The new battery test conducted by Tom’s Guide is designed to mimic real-world usage. In the battery test, the iPhone 14 Pro Max lasted an average of 14 hours and 42 minutes on a single charge. In contrast, last year’s iPhone 13 Pro Max lasted for 12 hours and 16 minutes. This is an almost 2 and a half hour jump in battery life....
