4738

hmm… MS seems to have hidden that pretty deep in its scheduler. Will try and make sense of all the services listed there!

Thanks!

4739

I also turned off Storage Sense which seems to have cut down on some of the disk activity on my computer. I’m still not exactly sure how turning it off might impact other performance issues/optimizations, however.

4740

Hmmm. Since I installed the latest Windows cumulative update almost all the app icons in the start menu search have turned generic, whether third party or built-in. I’ve only found a handful that are normal, like Calculator and Alarms & Clock. They show up fine in the Start menu itself.

Generic icon

4741

That’s a strange one. I’ve not heard of it happening before. Maybe a corrupt icon cache. You can use the following script to clear the icon cache and then it’ll rebuild all the icons automatically. Might be worth a try.

Save the script as a .bat file (e.g. icon.bat) and run it as administrator.

@echo off
taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
timeout /t 3
cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
attrib IconCache.db -r -a -s -h
del IconCache.db /F
cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
del iconcache* /F
pause
start explorer.exe
4742

Seems to have fixed itself in the last half hour. Thanks, though.

4743

No worries - problems that fix themselves are the best kind :)

4744

I was just playing Ghost Recon Wildlands and got a Blue Screen! Been years since the last time I saw one of those… Error code: “whea uncorrectable error”

Rebooted and carried on playing, but now I was hoping to figure out what happened and if I have a real problem or if it was just a glitch.

Unfortunately I’m not THAT versed in tech jargon to decipher the event log properly. Here the bugcheck has a keyword of 0x8, which according to this site is a “A Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) generic error occurred” - Does that mean I have a RAM problem?

123
123935×711 74.8 KB

Anyone have any tips? Or do I just ignore it and only start worrying once the error occurs more frequently?

(Win10 Pro, i5-7600k, Corsair 32GB Ram, Asus Z270H, RTX 2700S)

4745

Some light reading on the subject suggests that SCI is more about multiprocessor communication (every PC essentially is these days, due to multi-core processors being the norm). So rather than RAM I’d peg it as a possible CPU issue; I’d keep an eye on your CPU temps, maybe clear out any dust on the heatsinks. If you’re running an overclock, maybe consider dropping it a little.

4746

A voltage dip or spike may have done something weird, as well. I’d agree with fox; if you have an overclock, it’s likely the source of the problem.

4747

Thanks, will check the bios. Not manually overclocking, but it might be set on an “asus optimized” mode or something… Been a while since I’ve been there!

4748

Some games have problems or higher sensitivity with RAM clock speeds being set higher than spec.

4749

FYI just had a blue screen after update to 21H1, so people may want to hold off upgrading.

Update: sorry false alarm, most likely a flaky BIOS update causing flakes (WTF LENOVO!). 21H1 is fine.

4750

I just clicked Update… I hope I won’t be hunting you down :)

4751

So you don’t hunt Satya Nadella or Bill Gates down and you pick me??? 🤨🤣

4752

My PC seems to be working fine after the update…so yay!

Bill Gates has his own set of problems currently.

4753

21H1 adds upselling of GamePass:

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4754

Sucks that they promote GP and Edge in the OS like this. They should be stopped from doing it at the OS level. Should only be permitted if you open the Xbox or Edge programs.

4755

OTOH, I agree. Except I kinda think Edge is my favorite browser for the moment, and for some reason I bought a ton of those annoying weekly GP Ultimate codes to extend a GP subscription I rarely use.

4756
4757

First I ever heard of this, I turned it on as of today!