u/Entire_Formal_265

Hello everyone

what is windows autounattended?

Its essentially a script that runs at the beginning of the installation thats mostly used by enteprises to copy and paste repetitive settings across different installations. What people don't know is that it also includes options to essentially customize windows how you want and of course as you guessed this includes removing all of the microslop crap.

Requirements

Only requirement is that it has to be a fresh installation. If you have windows already installed then this won't work as the script can only run at the beginning of the installation.

How do I do it?

Here are the steps that I did to make a windows iso installation that might as well be the cleanest installation thats ever lived.

1. Open this website on ur laptop, pc, phone whatever as long as it clicks then we good.
2. There are a lot of config options so I suggest you go through each one of them to understand what they do and if you need them. If you are going to get someone else's autounattended.xml file then thoroughly inspect the file to make sure there isn't any malware or bad stuff embedded in it. Here is mine. On the top left side press on browse, select the file and press on import to see all the options. Again as I said go through the whole thing to see what options I choose since there might be stuff that you need or not need.
3. Once you have made your choices, scroll down and press on "download .xml file"
4. Install Anyburn. We will need this to add the .xml file to the windows iso installation.
5. Open Anyburn -> right column towards the middle press on "edit image file" and select the location of the windows iso that you have
6. towards top row of the anyburn window press on "Add" -> on right of "Look in" press on the white box to select the drive/folder. Since you just downloaded it and i'm assuming that you haven't moved the .xml from the download folder, press on the "Downloads" and then select the autounattended.xml. If you have moved the .xml file then navigate to the folder and select it.
7. Press add and then towards the bottom press on next -> create now and then when it asks you that it will overwrite it press yes. It will start writing the iso with the new file. Just wait till it finishes
8. Move the iso file to the usb drive that you are using to install windows in

From here its just like installing windows. A bunch of powershell windows will open when installign windows, do not close them as its part of the script.

What now?

As this is a complete fresh install, all the drivers are missing so on that usb stick download the wifi/ethernet driver so you can connect to the internet and install the rest of the drivers. Well besides that, congrats u got ur self a clean windows installation without having to install some dodgy script off github.

If I do get something wrong then tell me. I will update the post to correct the mistake.

Hello everyone

TLDR: When the stock paste dries out, don't get normal paste. Instead get phase change material like PTM7950, Thermal Grizzly PTM and Thermalright Heilos V2. Pump out is very minimal and it lasts much longer than normal paste. Performance is pretty good and comparable to liquid metal.

After the stock paste dried out, I was looking for options to repaste my HP Victus 16 with. After 5 minutes of research and a friend's suggestion, I came to the conclusion that MX-4 was the paste that I was looking for (fuck no it wasn't but back then I didn't). Bought it from a local store and repasted my laptop with it.

Ran a stress test on the spot and the temps were pretty cool with CPU: 75°C and GPU: 73°C. However after a few days the performance degraded pretty badly with the CPU hitting 87-90°C and GPU hitting 80°C. I thought "well I probably repasted it wrong, let me repaste it again after watching more youtube videos" and I did repaste it, 4 times...

Unfortunatly every time the same story happened. Temps were good initially and then degraded over the span of the next few days. 4th attempt was where I decided to look for alternatives and found the beatiful world of phase change material (PCM).

Went online and found that the best option was Honeywell PTM7950. I found some sources but I was not sure that they were legit since it was on ebay and amazon was looking even worse. After some more research I settled for the Thermalwright heilos V2 which I could find on amazon for a decent price of £8.

The application of PCM is a bit trickier than standard paste since the pad is insanely delicate and rips really easily. I found it easier to handle and remove the little peel at the top and bottom by putting it in the freezer before I started the dissassembly and taking it out when I needed to make the sizes.

Holy crap i'm happy to say that it works way better than standard paste. Its been 5 days right now and the CPU sits around 70°C and the GPU around 67°C under a stress test.

I will report back on this post a few months about the longevity and how its doing.

Bye people