I have an old Dell Optiplex 760 SFF which qualified for the free upgrade to Windows 10. Everything has worked well except sleep mode — the PC just doesn’t want to go to sleep any more. The most likely candidate is apparently issues with the Intel Management Engine drivers, which are not supported by Intel and are not officially available for Windows 10. Here’s how to fix them
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Various HTPC related updates
There haven’t been any particuarly noteworthy developments in the HTPC world lately, and I’ve been very busy at work so ther haven’t been as many articles published. What follows is a brief round-up of updates that I haven’t yet had time to write about.
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“Hi James I realise it has been a long while, but I just checked this on windows 11 (build 23H2)…”