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[Colif]

What I always wanted... stupid helper

Now to work out how to stop it helping.

I found this which shows two services it can't run without... it seems to manage fine without one, and I need the other for other services

Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps for home: your data and privacy - Microsoft Support

Learn about how Copilot, which provides AI-powered assistance in your Microsoft 365 apps, uses your data.

support.microsoft.com

 

[Brian Boru]

What I always wanted... stupid helper

Hey that's cool that they found such a compatible match for you!

Windows 10 one year extended support for $30

W10 goes obsolete 2025-10-14. Consumers can buy an extra year of updates for $30, per MS blog—down at the very end.

"ESU program for consumers will be a one-year option available for $30. Program enrollment will be available closer to the end of support in 2025."

 

[Colif]

That has existed as a choice for over a year now.

AI meant to be in Outlook but I haven't seen it in there yet. I only really see it at all in Word. I don't really use any of the other programs, besides excel.

 

[Brian Boru]

That has existed as a choice for over a year now

True, but price was unknown until now.

Excel 365

If you have a category column and want to enter one for a row, r-click in the cell and press K on KB.
This provides a pop-up of all previous entries in that column for you to select—no need to create a drop-down list.

Doesn't work if something in clipboard—stupidly, 'K' does double duty as a shortcut then —in that case, select from r-click menu near bottom.

 

[Colif]

Copliot half works on my PC now, it shows the prompts to use it to help create a document but it doesn't go any further as it wants to re enable that service I closed

Seems it only works in 4 of the programs currently

• Powerpoint
• teams
• Excel
• Word

Since I am doing two courses that both say I can't use AI, I am not in a rush to enable it again.
I have also advised both course providers as more people will get this going forward. And I wanted to cover my back, as they could use programs that detect AI and I can't fully turn it off without breaking other things I do use.

 

[Brian Boru]

MUO warns re new Winos4.0 malware "disguised as game installation and optimization tools":

A New Sophisticated Malware Is Targeting Windows Gamers

Users are infected when they install certain performance-enhancing gaming applications.

www.makeuseof.com

 

[Colif]

common approach, pretend to be something everyone wants.
It detects other AV but if they see it first, it won't get a chance to run.

Really, I have too much protection... Malwarebytes and Bitdefender. Might slow me down a little but I can't tell.

 

[Colif]

Onedrive appears to have been neglecting an action... updating files that change. So its currently making 70k changes. I am sure I don't have that many files so it must be every little change I have made since last time it run the operation.

No idea when that was.

I think its uploading the changes as I should have the newest version on PC. It creates all my files in the one drive folder, and then copies it to Onedrive server but it clearly wasn't updating them. Just as well I haven't needed them.

took 2 hours for it to complete the operation as a few times it would find more changes. So by end it was easily over 100k changes. I wonder where they were were stored.

So even though my Onedrive folder location is E drive, there are still files associated with it in my user folder, and it appears it has all my music there as well. So I have two copies of all my MP3 files which I don't even use anymore.

If I was running out of space, I could get some space back there but I don't need to with over 6tb free still.

 

[Colif]

So the fan control software that is pushed around internet has two problems'
1. it has too much access, it has ring 0 access to the CPU, which I doubt it really needs. It could stop other programs running if it so chose.
2. It conflicts with HWINFO

I use the CPU CCD (TDIE) sensor on my board to set the fan speed for my AIO.
Fan Control sees its temp as 33c
HWINFO reports it as higher... often 10c higher.
they are never the same.
which is true?

Tonight I went looking for an answer.
Loaded the System Info Viewer for my Motherboard which along with showing info, can also run the fans

Now its temp for CPU matches the one HWINFO shows, so the sensor temp I have been believing on my fans has been wrong for how long? About 11 months lol.

I will probably remove the Fan Control software since this program can run the fans for me... though it does think my CPU fans are currently at 0rpm... but I can hear them change speed and see them moving. Once I install my new fans I might use its software instead. This is just backup.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

The Gigabyte software works OK for me too, I havent bothered with Fan Control for quite a while because A: It didnt work with Ryzen 5000 well when I first put in this motherboard and B: The Gigabyte software has done what I want it too just fine.

Looks like you have the older SIV running there, theres an updated version with a nicer looking UI out that I got recently. Not sure if theres much difference beyond that if youre only controlling fans. It has PBO and GPU overclocking included now, but I aint touching software OC and I dont need it anyway.

 

[Colif]

That is the latest version for my motherboard, as I got it off the App Centre last night. Its not offering me anything newer. I can't OC my CPU anyway as its only the latest x3d chips that allow it. Could be why its missing features?

I noticed I was looking at the wrong sensor on CPU.

CPU_OPT can see my fan speeds as well as, if I click icon next to the RPM, my AIO flow rate which isn't something I was expecting to see on this AIO.

It seems I don't have anything running off CPU_FAN which I found suprising as I thought PC wouldn't boot with it empty. It might all change tomorrow when I install the Lian Li fans - even with new software the current fans make noises I can live without.

The two system fans seems to be running off the System 1 sensor. Seems I missed the steps in SIV to set which sensor they use. That explained one mystery, where my sensors are:

I slowed the rear exhaust down as it makes more noise than top exhaust. Then I saw my nvme temps increase so I changed its speed back to what it was before.

 

[Colif]

I changed AIO fan curve so its always running the pump at 100%
40% fan speed = 100% pump speed on my AIO

now fans can run at 1900 max so 50% of that is 950.
cpu temp in box is just where you change points, the green marker is actual temp. it tracks the outside of the CPU, and I never seen it below 30c yet so I can't see that being a problem anytime soon.

I changed fan curve so that fans are at 100% by 80c as I ran Cinebench earlier and it hit 85c. Only as the fans weren't set to hit 100 until 90c. Max CPU can run at is 90c so need a little more wiggle room.

Had to use SIV to alter the chassis fans speeds, the rear one doesn't like running very fast so I have set it slow and the top one at 200 rpm faster to make up for it. PC is quieter now as well.

Added Lconnect, removed the RGB software for Motherboard from running. I only really used it for AIO fans anyway.

since I can't link the NVMe to a chassis fan now, I added the sensor they do run to my taskbar (its the red one), the green one next to it is my nvme which wasn't that cool for long

Pc so quiet now I can hear other noises. The chassis fans most likely.

 

[Colif]

A few weeks ago windows was acting odd so I installed malwarebytes to check it out. It didn't find anything and I eventually figured out the cause and stopped it... but left malwarebytes running.

There is a problem, both it and Bitdefender both want to do same jobs, and would fight... especially annoying when one does a scan and the other reacts.

Anyway, Malwarebytes did 3 scans today and I decided I didn't need both so removed it again. It is more likely one to be removed as its easier to install again. Its just my 2nd opinion scanner. its not often Bitdefender misses anything... but its not great at adware.

PC will be cooler too without all the activity

Why does every application think start up is the best time to run all its updates?