Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Enable natural scrolling in Windows

1) Identify the mouse/touchpad information via Device Manager


2) regedit

3) Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\HID

tip: On Windows 10, you can now copy and paste the path in the Registry's address bar to quickly jump to the key destination.

4) Expand the key (folder) that matches the VID ID of your mouse:

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\HID\VID_248A&PID_8368&MI_00&Col01\8&1f989acc&0&0000\Device Parameters

5) Double-click the FlipFlopWheel DWORD and set the value from 0 to 1

6) Reboot your PC

Saturday, September 7, 2019

Moving Windows 10 EFI partition to another GPT disk

If your EFI partition is resided on a different physical disk than your Windows is, but you need the EFI partition on your Windows disk (e.g. for encrypting your Windows partition):
  • Resize the Windows partition in order to free about 200 MB of space for the future EFI partition. Certain position doesn't matter, it could be even at the end of the physical disk.
  • Create a new partition of EFI type (code ef00 in gdisk)
  • Click here to download Windows Media Creation Tool
  • Prepare a USB drive of at least 8GB disk space and create a Windows repairing USB stick
  • Reboot the PC from the USB stick and do the following:
    • Select Repair Your Computer
    • Select Troubleshoot
    • Select Advanced Options
    • Choose Command Prompt from the menu:
      • diskpart
      • list disk
      • sel disk 0
      • list vol
      • sel vol <number of future EFI volume>
      • assign letter=Y: (Y is a letter that isn't in use yet)
      • exit
      • type Y: 
      • type format Y: /FS:FAT32
      • type bcdboot C:\windows /s Y: /f UEFI
Ok, now you have a new FAT32 formatted EFI partition with a proper bootloader installed.