In early Windows versions, if your hard drive partition was marked dirty due to an improper shutdown, or due to corruption or bad sectors, Chkdsk ran while Windows was booting to fix any drive errors. You had a choice to cancel the disk check and continue to boot Windows, before it started scanning and fixing errors. In Windows 10, the Chkdsk timeout is set to 0 by default so it no longer allows you to cancel the disk check. Also, the automatic repair mechanism kicks in by default which we showed can be disabled. In this article, we will look at how to set the timeout before Chkdsk starts so you get time to cancel the disk check.
Author: Sergey Tkachenko
How to disable automatic repair at Windows 10 boot
During its startup, Windows 10 executes the automatic repair feature which tries to fix booting related issues automatically. If your PC crashes twice consecutively or fails to boot, it will launch the automatic repair procedure and will try to fix the issue which caused the crash. It runs chkdsk and also runs System File Checker (sfc.exe) to restore any corrupt files.
While this feature can be useful for the average user, in some situations, this automatic repair can annoy you very much. Sometimes, it has also been known to get stuck in a repair loop. So it's better in such case to not let Windows do any automatic repairs.
Let's see how we can disable automatic repair in Windows 10
How to disable Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10
When you are not using your PC, Windows 10 performs automatic maintenance. It is a daily scheduled task that runs out-of-the-box. When enabled, it performs various tasks like app updates, Windows updates, security scans and many other things. Here is how to disable Automatic Maintenance in Windows 10 and why you might want get rid of this feature.
Download Disable Automatic Maintenance registry tweak for Windows 10
Disable Automatic Maintenance registry tweak for Windows 10.
Using this tweak, you will be able to disable the Automatic Maintenance feature in Windows 10
Get classic Microsoft Plus! themes for Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7
If you have been using Windows since Windows 95 or Windows 98, you might remember Microsoft Plus! and the wonderful extra themes which were available as part of the Plus! pack. Today, you can get those themes in modern Windows versions like Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7. You can get genuine wallpapers, cursors, sounds, icons - everything except screensavers from those themes.
How to see if TRIM is enabled for SSD in Windows 10
TRIM is a special ATA command which was developed to keep the performance of your SSD drives at peak performance for the duration of your SSD's life. TRIM tells the SSD controller to erase invalid and not used data blocks from the storage in advance, so when a write operation happens, it finishes faster because no time is spent in erase operations. Without TRIM automatically working at the system level, your SSD performance will degrade over time unless you manually use a tool which can send the TRIM command to it. So it's always a good idea to check if TRIM is correctly enabled for your SSD in Windows 10 and enable it, if it is disabled.
Windows 10 got a new Release Preview ring for Windows Insiders
Yesterday, Microsoft introduced a new "ring" for participants of the Windows Insiders program. It is named the Release Preview Ring and is different from the Fast and Slow rings previously available for Insiders. Here is what you can expect if you switch to this ring.
Official Microsoft stats: 16% users on Windows 10 in Nov 2015 amongst those who opt in to Telemetry
According to Microsoft, users are moving to Windows 10 very quickly. Since they are using all possible ways to coax the average user to switch from previous Windows releases to the latest version, it might be working. Microsoft has shared some of their official stats which show that 16% of users were already on Windows 10 in November 2015. This comes with a very important footnote though which mentions that this usage data is obtained from customers who have opted to send Microsoft telemetry data.
Get official information about Windows 10 updates and releases
Microsoft has rolled out a new website where you can learn what is included in the released updates and version upgrades for Windows 10. It was about time to be honest since users like transparency about what an update does, especially business users. Almost all software today provides very detailed change logs.
Microsoft has rolled out Windows 10 build 10586.104
A new cumulative update for Windows 10 version 1511, also known as November Update or Threshold 2, was released by Microsoft. This time we have a change log and know exactly what happens by installing this update. Let's explore this update.
