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For an SSD, Disable Hibernation in Windows: Windows creates a file and writes entire OS memory to it every time you hibernate. An SSD writing to this file, can overburden the SSD and degrade its life. Turn Off Indexing: SSD drives are very fast and it does not need any indexing to find files like conventional HDD. Start => Defragment and Optimize Drives: E, F, and I were being defragged/optimized every week. Turned defrag off after SSD was installed.

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Samsung 860QVO reviews: AnandTech | PcWorld | SSD_Review | Tom's Hardware The 860 QVO works with Samsung's latest Magician SSD toolbox. Magician allows you to update the firmware, enable encryption options, monitor the health of your Samsung SSD, and more. Samsung also provides its Data Migration software, which allows you to clone over your data from an existing drive to your new SSD. You can download both from Samsung’s website.

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HTG Oct 2018 update | Devl halted on snipping tool, snip & sketch instead | Chrome 70 Will Let Users Opt Out of the New Auto-Sign In Feature |

On e6430, I wanted to separately use 2 profiles – with one on local c: drive and one on a different drive. Here's how: (1) on C: modify the Chrome desktop shortcut target to append: --user-data-dir=%localappdata%\Google\Chrome\cUserData (note that I had to rename existing 'User Data' and also that ccleaner will not clean this folder, you'll have to manually clear history etc) (2) on alternate Z: In %localappdata%\Google\Chrome folder: mklink /D "User Data" "Z:\Chrome\UserData" (this is cleared by ccleaner)

Uninstall Flash Player: https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html

Amazon Video BSOD crashes: I think this fixed this problem: Under Core Isolation, turned off “Memory Integrity”, then reboot. Now Amazon Video works in Chrome without crashing. WinKey => Device Security => Core Isolation => Memory integrity Amazon Video does not work in Edge browser, I get this error message: Your web browser is missing a digital rights component. For further assistance, please contact Amazon Customer Service at https://www.amazon.com/videohelp and refer to error 7235. “Windows Defender System Guard: Making a leap forward in platform security with memory integrity” article

Credential Guard/Device Guard in Windows 10 prevents VMware player from running. How to fix. https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/8004c3bd-7d57-40ce-93de-0b1a6babd64c/how-i-can-disable-credential-guard?forum=win10itprovirt | https://communities.vmware.com/thread/592148 This registry hack should fix it by temporarily setting Enabled to 0, reg setting can be reset again after running wmplayer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50374506/vmware-workstation-cannot-run-on-windows-10-after-recent-update-to-windows-10

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceGuard\Scenarios\HypervisorEnforcedCodeIntegrity]
"WasEnabledBy"=dword:00000002
"Enabled"=dword:00000001

However, the above did not work! I did not try a reboot, perhaps that would work?
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Find why Windows crashed using Reliability History https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/why-did-my-pc-crash-windows-10-tools MS Driver Verifier and instructions: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-update/driver-verifier-tracking-down-a-mis-behaving/f5cb4faf-556b-4b6d-95b3-c48669e4c983 “Kind of a strange workaround, but by starting in safe mode with a wired Internet connection, I was able to stream both Netflix and Amazon video. Then in normal mode they worked, first wired then wirelessly. This was with NO software or driver changes” (but this is a very old comment) https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/what-would-prevent-protected-video-netflix-amazon-prime-video-from-streaming-on-windows-10.2548259/

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/315263/how-to-read-the-small-memory-dump-file-that-is-created-by-windows-if-a#method1 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-update/bsod-finding-and-fixing-them/1939df35-283f-4830-a4dd-e95ee5d8669d ___

Windows Defender secret crapware PUP blocker: https://www.howtogeek.com/360648/how-to-enable-windows-defender%E2%80%99s-secret-crapware-blocker/

MS page that lists all the hosts that Windows 10 connects to; explains what Windows 10 endpoints are used for, how to turn off traffic to them, and the impact https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/manage-windows-endpoints | cited by this tweet

new Windows 10 preview 5/9/2018 https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/09/microsoft-releases-new-windows-10-preview-with-sets-clipboard-dark-theme-notepad-and-search-improvements/ In this build, Notepad now supports Unix/Linux line endings (LF) and Macintosh line endings (CR). Saying this is long overdue would be a massive understatement. You can now highlight any words or phrase in the app and search for it with Bing. The feature is accessible in three ways: via the right-click (context) menu, the Edit menu, and by hitting CTRL + B. With Sets, a new tab will open that will include the Bing search results page

https://www.freeformatter.com Great line-up of useful utils

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