As part of my little business buying and selling old graphics cards, I have been using a Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H motherboard as my testbed, on an open case, which has been very dependable. The Z77 chipset (LGA1155) is ideal for what I do as it was the last chipset to support… Continue reading
This post concerns enrolling in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for Windows 10 especially if you prefer to use a Local Account. Up until 10-Oct-2025 it was possible to use the script at https://github.com/abbodi1406/ConsumerESU to enrol without a Microsoft Account, but Microsoft closed the loophole that allowed it to… Continue reading
Earlier in the year my main PC failed. The board was dead and it wasn’t the PSU as I have a PSU tester and it tested out fine. The PC was long overdue an upgrade, so I went ahead with that. More on that in another post. The system was… Continue reading
I’ve had a weird issue recently when playing some games in Windowed fullscreen mode under Windows 10 Professional. Specifically the Epic Games Store version of The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition and also Robocop: Rogue City, although I’m sure it’s not limited to those. The issue is that after Alt-tabbing to… Continue reading
I have been regularly encountering an issue with a USB keyboard and mouse, where the mouse pointer freezes, and the keyboard experiences missed or delayed keystrokes. After approximately two seconds, it would unfreeze again, but the problem would reoccur almost immediately. Having now found a solution, I thought I would… Continue reading
In my previous post I presented a batch file that uses robocopy to make mirror backups of local files to a NAS. In this post, I will build upon that to add Volume Shadow Copy functionality in order to copy locked files.
I wanted to create a regular incremental backup of my local files on my Windows box, and copy them to a NAS. I ended up using robocopy, a batch file, and the Windows scheduler to achieve this. Read on to see how.