Windows 10 Pro using your bandwidth

Windows 10 by default prioritizes it's self for your band width, if you have a gaming PC or a laptop you probably do not want Windows 10 deciding when to us your bandwidth, specially if you are on a limited band width connection (Not everyone has high speed) and of course Windows will start using bandwidth when you need it most, like in a zoom call or downloading something for work.

Lets fix that

This is for Windows 10 Pro so we can use gpedit.msc to change it.

1. click start and gpedit.msc
2. click Administrative Templates
3. click Network
4. double click QoS Packet Scheduler
5. double click Limit reservable bandwidth
6. click Enabled
7. Set band width limit to 0
8. click ok and reboot

For Windows 10 Home version, you will have to edit the registry (if you are not comfortable editing your registry do not apply this fix)

1. click start and regedit.msc
2. double click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
3. double click SOFTWARE
4. double click Polices
5. double click Microsoft
6. right click on Microsoft and select New Key and call it Psched
7. right click and select new DWORD
8. name it NonBestEffortLimit and leave the default of zero
9. close out of regedit and reboot

You may or may not see any improvement but you know that Microsoft isn't using your bandwidth when you don't want them too.

enjoy

Install Subl for Kali

I am doing this so I don't forget....

Follow the steps below until they no longer work....

wget -qO - https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add - 

echo "deb https://download.sublimetext.com/ apt/stable/" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.list 

sudo apt update && sudo apt install sublime-text

BashTOP for Kali Linux

This is a very cool and easy to load system monitoring shell, highly recommend and makes your friends think you are an uber hacker...

Lets get started, I am installing this on Kali Linux 2.0 but will work on Ubuntu as well

get to a terminal and lets get typing

• git clone https://github.com/aristocratos/bashtop.git
• cd bashtop 
• sudo make install
• cd\
• bashtop

enjoy

Big Sur beta 2 install from USB HP 800 G1 Elitedesk Haswell

Steps I used to create a Big Sur USB installer


Gathering items

16 GB USB drive
240 GB SSD (Big Sur is too slow on a spinner)
HP 800 G1 EliteDesk or Haswell based computer
My EFI.zip file to boot Big Sur
Clover Configurator <- used to mount partitions
Time and patience

I have a HP 800 G1 running Catalina/Big Sur, this is what I used to create the USB boot disk with Big Sur beta 2.

Step 1: download Big Sur by pasting the below link in terminal, select the Big Sur Beta 2 download.

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/munki/macadmin-scripts/main/installinstallmacos.py && sudo /usr/bin/python installinstallmacos.py --raw --seedprogram DeveloperSeed

Step 2: Format your USB drive with Disk Utility with GUID Partition and call it Untitled

past the below command in terminal to create your USB installer

sudo /Applications/Install macOS Beta.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/Untitled

Once that is complete, use Clover Configuraor to mount the EFI partition on the USB installer, copy the EFI folder from my zip file to the USB UFI partition.

if all went well, you should have a bootable USB installer.

Step 3 coming.. getting tired...

Big Sur - Opencore 0.6.0 - HP G1 800 Haswell

below is how I got Big Sur to work on the HP 800 G1, this will probably work for most Haswell systems but HP's have limited BIOS settings so we have to do most of the work in config.plist

You will need to find Opencore .0.6.0, its not publicly released yet so you may need to compile it. you should also familiarize yourself with dortania's opencore and read the how too's.

I used my Mac mini to install Big Sur onto a SSD with a USB adapter, there is a VM method as well but you will. have to find that out. With my Mac mini enrolled in Apples developer program I was able to download Big Sur and run the installer. It's important to note that you must format the SSD to be used for Big Sur with APFS or the installer will not work.

Mount the EFI folder and place Opencore's EFI folder into it, I used the same kexts that I had in my Catalina EFI folder but made sure they where the latest versions, I also used my SSDT-EC.aml from Catalina. Only OpenRuntime.efi and HfsPlus.efi are needed in Drivers.

In Opencore the most important file is the config.plist, below is the settings I used. if I don't mention a setting leave it as default. I am assuming you know how it edit the config.plist, if you don't then look it up on YouTube, lots of video's on how to do it.

Booter - Quirks

DeviceProperies - You will need to add this if you want iGPU to work, leave it blank if you have dGPU

PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)
AAPL,ig-platform-id   0300220D
device-id                      12040000

Kernel

Misc

NVRAM

Platforminfo

UEFI

Hackintosh reset BIOS on restart

Started experiencing this after up[date on my ASUS Z390 Prime-P systems.

Key fixes until integrated into OpenCore boot loader

in config.plist enable  RTC checksum update on power off

put this terminal

Hackintosh upgrade

For those of you fallowing along, my main system started having issues and had become unstable. Crashing and rebooting, after many hours of diagnostic work I determined it was the mother board, the PCI slot for the video card is cause the issues. I use this system for work and research so I needed to get back online. I bought new hardware. here is what I upgraded too

ASUS Prime Z390-p motherboard
Intel I9 9900k
32 GB of 3000Mhz Ram
AMD RX 5700 XT

Windows 10 run awesome as expected but OS X 10.15.2 was a little work, turns out that the Z390 does not have native NVRAM so I had to add EmuVariableUefi.efi to get to the desktop.

Once that was done I am back up and running, faster and stable.