I’ve recently dug out a copy of Secret Files: Tunguska from Steam, and by default it stretches across my 16:9 monitor. That looks terrible because the game was made with 4:3 monitors in mind, which means the default settings stretch out the game making everything look distorted. There’s no built-in option to disable this. While … Read more
I was looking for the Windows equivalent of the Linux command “y| rm -rf” and despite my best efforts couldn’t work it out. We need to use “del”, with a couple of switches to do this recursively and for directories, and also automatically confirm this for every entry. Here it is: This will delete everything … Read more
I’ve made myself a striped “kamikaze RAID” volume a couple of years ago for video editing. It’s worked great until recently, when performance degraded a bit and it was time to re-create it. Turns out I had forgotten how to set it up, and I had no clue how to delete it either. Just in … Read more
I had an interesting conundrum on Windows the other day, where I wanted to use a 4TB SSD that had previously been in use on another system. It had a full installation of Windows on it, but I couldn’t turn it into a cohesive 4TB volume. Instead, after ridding it of all previous Windows partitions, … Read more
I’ve been trying to eliminate frequent Unreal Engine crashes on one of my Windows systems, some of which can be caused by the GPU pushing itself too hard. It’s not common, but it was a possibility. Turns out we can ask the GPU via the NVIDIA Control Panel to never go over a maximum frame … Read more
I’ve experienced an annoying phenomenon on my Windows 11 PC: whenever I had my AirPods connected via Bluetooth and attached by Dualsense PS5 controller, moments later the AirPods would disconnect and not re-connect. Not great when you’re settling in for a quick gaming session at the end of a long day. I’ve tried everything from … Read more
Even when you turn things off, Microsoft has a habit of turning this back ON again for you. Case in point: that picture in my search bar that’s been disabled since May 2022 has just re-appeared. Back then I ran Windows 10, today I run Windows 11 and here’s how we remove it: Voila! Sanity … Read more
I have a lot of RAM in my system and wanted to see if there’s a performance improvement to be had by disabling the page file. By default this is enabled so that Windows apps never run out of memory, but if you’re sure you have plenty, there’s no need for Windows to write a … Read more
