Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Windows 8.1 - How to Enable AHCI After Windows Installed



If for example you've upgraded your SATA HDD to a SSD and you notice poor performance that may happening because your BIOS it's configured to use IDE controller instead of AHCI.

It's not possible to just go to your BIOS and change to AHCI because that will result on a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) when Windows startup.

So, follow this steps to do it properly:

  1. Open a command-prompt as Administrator

  2. Run the following command:
    bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimal

  3. Reboot the machine, enter the BIOS and change the controller to AHCI

  4. Now Windows will startup in safe mode

  5. Again, open a command-prompt as Administrator

  6. Run the following command:
    bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot

  7. Reboot again

  8. You're Done!

Hope this help you get the most of your SSD!


Friday, March 13, 2015

Windows Phone: Windows 10 Preview Will Have a Rollback Tool



Windows 10 for Phone preview release may be available soon for some users through Microsoft Windows Insider program.

If in a computer, testing preview software it's an easy going thing, doing it on your personal smartphone it's a different approach.

Thinking on this, Microsoft will have a rollback tool, so users can get back to their Windows Phone 8.

This confirmation was revealed to the world with a tweet from one the Microsoft's General Manager, Grabriel Aul.