Problem
Your ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 7 (or X1 Carbon Gen 10?)’s OLED display has a “vignette” effect whenever the charger is unplugged. The corners and edges of the display are dimmer/darker than the center.
Break It Better.
Your ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 7 (or X1 Carbon Gen 10?)’s OLED display has a “vignette” effect whenever the charger is unplugged. The corners and edges of the display are dimmer/darker than the center.
When trying to print with your Brother label printer, the Status Monitor warns “The media installed in the machine does not match the one selected in the application”, and the printer flashes a red light near the power button. The printer refuses to print.
For example, this happened on my QL-1110NWB.
While using your Bluetooth mouse with your Windows laptop, whenever the mouse has been idle for least a few seconds, moving it again causes the cursor to initially stutter.
The Bluetooth mouse has gone into a sleep mode, and there seems to be a delay in waking it from sleep.
I’ve had this problem on Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 6 (with Intel AX201 network card) and Dell XPS 13 9310 (with Killer AX1650, based on Intel AX200). I’m using a Logitech MX Master 3 mouse.
I was trying to install Windows 10 Education on my 2020 Spectre X360 14 (which is preloaded with Windows 10 Home), and I realized there’s a few things to watch out for to make your reinstallation successful — particularly a lack of AHCI mode preventing the installer from seeing the internal SSD. Here’s how you can do it.
These steps are based on the Spectre X360 14 but should also apply to similar HP laptops.
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When you enable Equalizer APO to process the audio input from your Motu M-Series audio interface, the audio crackles or glitches.
Equalizer APO is super useful for changing your microphone’s frequency response or applying VST effects to the audio input system-wide. This picture shows my setup for panning my single mic (left channel only) into dual mono, and then gating out background noise, and then volume equalization using a compressor.
Installing a clean copy of Windows on the 2020 Huawei MateBook X Pro is more complicated than on previous generations. Follow these steps set up a clean Windows installation of your preferred language and edition. English speakers who are getting your 2020 MateBook from China will need this.
If your CPU frequency is being reduced under load, even at low temperatures (below 90°C), then you probably have power limit throttling. Here’s how to disable those power limits.
Warning: disabling your power limits may cause your computer to run at levels of power beyond its design. Make sure you keep BD ProcHot on. If BD ProcHot kicks in, your VRM is not getting enough cooling and you need to decrease the power limit or improve the VRM cooling.
You try to open Precision X1, but it closes itself after the splash screen, and the main window won’t open at all.
Do you have multiple GPUs in your system? Graphics cards of different models? eGPU? Ever since version 0.3.1, Precision X1 breaks in face of GPU diversity.
Go into Device Manager and disable the other GPU you’re not currently using. In this case, it was my laptop’s own MX250.
If you’re connecting your laptop to a TV and the black in the image is gray instead, your laptop is not outputting the full 8-bit-per-channel color range. Instead of sending values between 0 and 255, it’s sending 15-255. You could compensate for this in some TVs’ settings, but you’d be losing color definition.
Intel defaults to 15-255. There is a setting for this in the Intel Graphics Control Panel (In Video > Color Enhancement), but it doesn’t seem to take any effect… unless you do the following:
You have to do this every time you restart the computer or reconnect the TV.
These are the tweaks I use every time I set up a Windows laptop, to make it faster, more power-efficient, and less annoying. Some of these are pretty standard and well known; others are more advanced and thorough.
Skip manufacturer bloatware altogether and start with a clean slate. YOU decide what OEM packages you want to install back.
Make Windows start up faster by disallowing unnecessary programs to automatically launch.
Does the brightness or color of your display change by itself from time to time? Intel's "image enhancement" is probably messing with you. All these "enhancements" do is make the image inconsistent and worse.