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What is a CAB file and why should you care?

A .CAB file (cabinet) is a compressed archive that contains software installation files. This file type is commonly used by Microsoft Windows as it supports a number of compression algorithms, including ZIP, Quantum, and LZX.

Windows’s updates come in form of .CAB files through Windows Automatic updates and are installed automatically. If you wish you can manually get updated files from various websites as Microsoft releases them; once you have that let’s see how to install that file on your computer to dump the build number.i.e. If you download KB4577063 your Windows 10 will be updated to 19041.541

Gather CAB/MSU file

The first thing you need is is a cab file, it can be a cumulative update package from Microsoft catalog.

Also, advanced users who don’t usually wait for the public rollout of Windows 10 build updates can get MSU or .CAB files from various websites that generally post about this.

Installing Cumulative updates using Command Prompt

Download the .cab file, you may want to rename it to something simple e.g kbxxxxxx.cab to 1234.cab.

Tip: For easier workflow move the file to root c:/ directory.

Tip: For easier workflow move the file to root c:/ directory.

1. Open a command prompt windows as Admin.
2. Type cd /
3. Type
   DISM.exe /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath:c:\kb1234.cab
4. Give it a few minutes to complete the process; then restart your system.
5. Go to Settings > System > About to check the updated build number.

Use a CAB Installer tool; easier method

Rather a simple application that can dramatically sped-up CAB file installation with a GUI. That being said, this program makes it really.

1. Get the latest version of Cab Update Installer from rg-Adguard. CTRL + L

One of the major benefits this will provide is that the system administrator can install care files without getting into DSM commands in Command Prompt.

For this tool to work you need MICROSOFT.NET FRAMEWORK 4.6.1 and when you run this select run anyway to execute the program in the case of WINDOWS PROTECTED YOUR PC WARNING APPEARS.

2. Open the cab update installer program after you download it, make sure to open it as admin; right-click on it and select “run as admin…” the interface is a mere simple way to install Cab files on a computer.
3. Browse the Cab file (cumulative update) which you want to install and select one from DISM or PackageManager. After that hit the “Install Update” button to run the update process, it might take around 5-20 minutes depending on the update and your system.

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It’s much safer to rely on Windows Automatic updates to receive cumulative updates, particularly when you are using an older machine. There is nothing to worry about for those of you with high-performance processors and SSDs, and you can simply install any pre-mature cumulative update.

This article will help you install Windows 12/11 on a USB drive so that you can load/run (and keep running) Windows from it.

There is a time when you have to install Windows on your computer. If you did it earlier, you are already familiar with the process. First of all, the very basic step is to create a bootable media that can be either USB or DVD. But the DVD days are almost faded, you see laptops without DVD writers everywhere.

In fact, you don’t need specifically LiveDVD to install Windows because installing windows from USB is very simple and easy. A lot of people started doing this. Microsoft releases feature updates twice a year, brace yourself for every six months if you want to stay up-to-date. There are people who have problems updating Windows, their computer breaks or takes forever to upgrade. That’s why doing a fresh installation is the best choice.

But do you think it’s easier to install Windows 12/11 on a USB and keep running?

And right after that, you can run Windows 10 from the USB. This comes in handy when you switch devices, for example, Home and Office computer.

Random vibe: Do you know that you can install Windows on a USB flash drive and run it straight away? You will have to use approximately 16 GB of pen drive and because Windows will be installed on your pen drive. You can run Windows on any computer, you’ll only require plugging the USB into a computer and boot from it. Windows will install drivers accordingly to the available hardware.

What is required and what you will get.

• Windows 12/11 ISO image file.
• USB 3.2 (USB 2.0+ will work).
• WinToUsb tool / Rufus

You’ll be able to run Windows directly from the USB, and there is no installation required. The first time you boot from the USB you will have to go through the typical setup of the Windows setting region, create a user account, and rest. After that, you can keep running Windows 10 from the USB. This also works when you don’t have a hard disc on your computer.

If you use the Windows insider preview you can use this approach to test the latest windows insider preview version. Unlike using them on Virtual Machine software you will be able to test them natively. This is useful when you decide to install Windows insider on your primary computer.

When using a USB 3.0 it’ll reduce the reboot time and that’ll be near as if windows is installed and booted from the hard disk.

Our testing on the Intel I7 laptop took nearly 18 seconds and another 20 seconds to open the desktop.

To install Windows on a USB and Run from it, proceed as follows.

1. Download Windows 12/11 ISO image.
2. Download Win to USB tool.
3. Install it.
4. Open Windows to USB tool.
5. Click the browse button and select the Windows 10 ISO image file.
6. Select your USB drive from the drop-down menu.
7. Choose GPT or UEFI Firmware or MBR for Legacy BIOS support.
8. Click on the start button.
9. Then finish turn off your computer and boot from the USB flash drive.

Note: When you first boot from the USB you will have to go through the typical Windows setup, your computer will be restarted when the setup is finished and your computer will automatically boot the operating system which is currently installed on your hard disc so you need to select to boot from USB when your computer starts.

Step by step instructions with images.

Step 1. Grab the windows Image file and the required tool.

You can easily get Windows ISO files from the Microsoft website. Also if-if you are interested to use insider preview you can do that from here. Watch out the news section for the latest windows insider build and how to get them.

Step 2. A tool is all you need.

For this purpose, we are using Windows to USB tool. This tiny tool creates a VHD partition where it will install Windows file. Please note that this method will only work on Windows 8 and Windows 10 because both of them support portable installation also known as Windows To Go.

You can also use Rufus and select windows to go option for the same outcome.

Step 3. Open the tool click on the browse button select the ISO file.

Select the edition.

Click next and select the USB drive, click next and select how much space to assign to the partition.

This tool creates two partitions, the Large partition will have a single compressed file which contains all of the windows data. Now click the start button and wait for a couple of minutes until the process is finished.

When you are done turn off the computer, press the power button on your computer, and press ESC/Del/F2,8,9,10,11,12 to access your BIOS setting. After that, you have to make sure these options and settings are as follows.

USB boot: Enabled
Secure boot: Disabled

Boot from USB first: Enabled (When you decide to keep running Windows from USB).
Legacy Support: toggle if you’re unable to boot.

Known issues.

Unable to boot: ensure USB boot and boot from USB device first is enabled in the Bios settings. Some computers allow choosing the boot device.

Bootloop.

Stuck at the windows logo.

Once you do the typical Windows setup. You’ll be able to run Windows from the USB flash drive. Use USB 3.0 Flash drive for a leg-free Windows experience. Well, USB 2.0 will also work but the performance will be not that great.

If your computer is activated with a digital license key, you won’t be prompted to activate Windows. But will it ask to activate Windows when booted on another computer, is still unclear to me.

When you boot, you’ll see two partitions (both are on a USB flash drive) and they are the same. If you have a hard drive on your computer, it might not mount (it didn’t mount my Samsung SDD, 256GB) As it’s a Windows-to-go instance.

That’s all. Windows update will automatically install the drivers according to your hardware. The only difficult task is booting from the USB and making changes to your computer BIOS. I tested this on HP envy 13-AD128TU and it worked great. It automatically activated the Windows so I didn’t have to bother using a crack or buying a separate license (why would I?).

Your GPU runs on the full potential when you game or any graphic intensive task. There is literally nothing you can do to prevent it from heating (keep AIO equipped GPUs or underclocking aside). What you can do it to monitor the fans and ventilation to keep your hardware safe. Most GPU comes with built-in fans to maintain proper airflow by throwing heat which exhausts fans further throws outside the cabinet.

If you’re using above mid-range GPU, including the new 30 series you’ll have 2 and more fans and a metal-plate that store heat so it can disperse that heat inside the cabinet; now it really depends on your exhaust fans placement.

When the GPU fans keep spinning, it maintains a controlled temperature that should never cross 80-degree Celsius or you’re abusing the beautiful series 30 GPUs.

by default in order to make your computer silent, companies like MSI and Galax have in-board-memory settings that don’t turn the fans on unless it hits the threshold. I have an MSI 2070 that by default doesn’t turn on fans until it hits 55/65 Degree celsius temperature. I’d rather install MSI afterburner and set the fans to run on about 50{bcd639a95f60765a37875f2c3aa7d7c7a5a05141cb22255973bd0b02e6be8f6c} all the time. I do care about my GPUs temperature and you should too.

Fixing Series 30 GPU Fans Not Spinning

So when your GPU fans don’t start; it’s normal and you can take command to run the GPU fans at any speed you want.

1. First, see if it’s really hot

Fans on GPU are either loud or very quiet; depending on the hardware. Start with playing a game and see if you can hear them spinning.

There are many ways to view GPU temperature, RIVA’s statistic tuner shows this in the taskbar on on-screen. 

Recently Windows 10 Task manager got the ability to display GPU temperature. Task Manager > Performance > GPU

A tool goes by the name Core Temp shows you the temperature of GPU.

Usually, your GPU fans won’t be spinning unless it’s hot enough. Once the heat rises the fans start with a pre-configured speed; they won’t be spinning at the full speed yet. Gradually fans speed increase when the temperature rises; then the fans help to prevent the GPU from running too hot to handle. You know what happened when if your GPU or CPU gets too hot; your computer commands it to force-off to prevent hardware damage.

2. Check fans with Afterburner

Normally if you haven’t screwed your GPU fans, you can manually turn them on and even control their speed as it seems fit.

1. Download MSI Afterburner, It’s for MSI labeled Nvidia GPU’s but should work with any GPU theoretically.
2. You’ll see the Fan speed slider just above the settings and reset button.
3. Now click at the farthest right-side are to the slider that allows you to set a custom fan speed. Use the slider and set it to the maximum. That should instantly make your GPU fans spinning.

TIP: You can control your GPU fan speed and set a speed of your choice. For that click the Auto button you find near the Fan speed slider. The auto option basically turn on your graphics cards fans only if a certain amount of temperature is triggered.

3. Basic GPU maintenance

Suppose your GPU fans aren’t running because something is not letting them. I am sure you’re not one of those weirdos who have their cabinet filled with dust clogged with spider nets. What I am exaggerating here is you should open up your cabinet and try to clean it with an air-blower.

Here is a checklist of things you should be doing to ensure something isn’t jamming your fans.

1. Open the cabinet and look closely under the GPU, if there are some cables preventing fans from spinning, manage them. Make sure the fan blades aren’t jammed with anything. Double-check by manually spinning them.
2. If you can spin them manually, either follow step 1 and in case it didn’t help, double check your power supply cables.

4. Change power connectors

Series 30 comes with a new pin connector that should work with your old PSU with the 6+6-to-12-pin adapter. Ensure you’re connecting them properly, GPU needs to draw enough amount of power in order to work; but if you have a good PSU with plenty of capacity this would be the case.

One thing that I would like to mention here is that the pin adaptor comes with founders edition is terrible by design; a beautiful GPU doesn’t deserve this.

5. Update drivers

You either use Nvidia or budget-friendly AMD GPUs and when you have it’s mandatory to install the latest drivers. Unfortunately, Windows 10 automatic updates usually install a very stable version which is usually a few months old. Open with the Nvidia support page and grab the latest driver package from there and install it manually.

NVIDIA offers game ready and creator ready-drive package. If your purpose is pure gaming; install the gamer ready driver. It delivers out-of the box optimization for A titles and battle royale games.

It sounds weird because it is if you recently upgraded your GPU have the drivers updated.

1. For any 30 Series Nvidia GPU, get a driver from this support page. 
2. Restart your system.

Conclusion: why aren’t my gpu fans spinning

GPUs usually built to last longer just like CPUs. If it’s your normal day; you might just install MSI afterburner to kick-start fans, things will go really smooth. Now, it’s not a foolproof guide, other issues can severely affect GPU fans from keeping them running; let is be bad BIOS, old motherboard, or bad slots.

That being said if you have a series 30 graphics card you invested your money wisely and 2 minutes silence for those who bought RTX 2080 ti.

This story works perfectly for RTX 3080, 3090, 3070 and 3060Ti.

Finally, Android 14 has arrived for android devices.

Google officially announced the Android 14 update in January 2023. Right now it is available for pixel devices and soon will roll out for premium flagship devices. The Android 14 is not available for the majority of Android devices because it’s currently in the beta phase and yet to be stable, however, we already have phones for which custom Android 14 ROMs are available. Let’s see how you can install Android 14 on your Android device and take this post as an Android 14 update tracker.

For the records, Android 12 is on 10{bcd639a95f60765a37875f2c3aa7d7c7a5a05141cb22255973bd0b02e6be8f6c}+ Android phones and the reason behind it is not all the old released phones get the new Android OS. The majority of the devices of the low and mid-segment barely get a single version update. While companies like MI, Realme, and Oneplus provide version updates for 2 to 3 years.

But with the Android 14 custom ROM available you can test and enjoy all the Android 14 features on the old device. Android 14 update is available for Google Pixel and other flagship devices but the developer community is quite large at this point in time. And it only takes a few days for a developer to build a Bleeding Edge Android 14 custom ROM for their preferred devices

Android 14 Custom ROMs: How to install?

Android 14 will get stable by the end of the year 2023, and then you can expect a rollout for your devices. Until then you can use a custom Android 14 ROM which includes new features such as music controls, different application languages, and a new UU interface. During the beta period, you might see new experimental features which may never make it to this stable version. But on the Bright Side, we get to see additional new features when their Android 14 version gets stable for public rollout. Phone manufacturing companies will then modify the Android 14 operating system and send to their users, this adds additional time.

Find all the custom Android 14 ROM available for different devices in the below table. You just have to download the file after that you can use a custom recovery to place it on your phone. But not every Android device can get this Android 14; devices buy Oneplus, Xiaomi, realme, Samsung, and some more have popular fanbases so they surely will get Android custom ROMs. For the time being there are Android 14 custom AOSP-based ROM available which we have listed below.

You must first download the custom file to install the Android 14 custom ROM. After downloading the file, you can easily install that file on your old phone and enjoy all its features. However, not all Android phones get support for custom ROMs. But, popular phones from OnePlus, Xiaomi, and Motorola will surely get Android custom ROM. The Android 14 custom ROM is already available for some smartphone models. We have listed them below.

Android 14 Custom ROMs Update Tracker:

Google Pixel	Samsung
Pixel 4a 5G	Galaxy S23 / S23+ / S23 Ultra
Pixel 5	Galaxy S22 / S22+ / S22 Ultra
Pixel 5a	Galaxy S21 / S21+ / S21 Ultra
Pixel 6 / 6 Pro	Galaxy S21 FE
Pixel 6a	Galaxy Z Fold 5 / Z Flip 5
Pixel 7 / 7 Pro	Galaxy Z Fold 4 / Z Flip 4
Pixel 7a	Galaxy Z Fold 3 / Z Flip 3
Pixel Fold	Galaxy Tab S9 / S9+ / S9 Ultra
Pixel Tablet	Galaxy Tab S8 / S8+ / S8 Ultra

Xiaomi	POCO
Xiaomi 12 All varients	POCO C51, C55
Xiaomi 13 All varients	POCO X4 5G / X4 GT
Xiaomi Mix Fold 2	POCO X5 / X5 Pro
Xiaomi Civi 1S / 2 / 3	POCO F4 / F4 GT
Xiaomi Pad 6 / 6 Pro	POCO F5 / F5 Pro
	POCO M4 / M5

OnePlus	iQOO	Oppo
OnePlus 11 / 11R	iQOO 11 / Pro	Find N2 / N2 Flip
OnePlus 10T / 10 Pro / 10R	iQOO 9 / 9 Pro / 9T / 9 SE	Find X5 / X5 Pro
OnePlus 9 / 9 Pro / 9RT	iQOO 8 / 8 Pro / Neo 8	Reno 9 / 9 Pro / 9 Pro+
OnePlus Nord 2T	iQOO 7 / Neo 7 / Neo 7 Pro	Reno 8 / 8 Pro
OnePlus Nord CE 2 Lite	iQOO Z7 / Z7x / Z7s	Reno 7 / 7 Pro
OnePlus Nord N300 5G	iQOO Neo 6	Reno 6 / 6 Pro
OnePlus Ace 2 / Ace Pro / Ace / Ace Racing	iQOO Z6 / Z6 Pro / Z6 Lite	Reno 8T / 8T 5G

More devices will be added when available.

Torrents are the easier way to share a file between people to people. That is why over 150 million people use the Bittorrent protocol to get things done. Nonetheless, alternatives are available, and users know how to download torrents using a torrent client. However, there are other methods too

This is a notice of you.

Before you proceed, make sure you take a backup.

The world’s best-known method to download torrents is to use a Torrent client like uTorrent etc. However, these days you can use torrent services to download torrents to your computer without using any torrent client. IDM is the short form of the “Internet Download Manager” which is a popular download manager for the Windows operating system. So what if you could download a torrent using a download manager like “IDM” (of course you can use any manager of your choice) this would be the fasted method and hopefully less complicated.

How to Download Torrents using IDM

After reading this article, you will know how to deal with torrents and download any torrent file directly from a cloud storage service. Moreover, if you prefer downloading the files from the cloud using IDM, hopefully, you can do that as well.

Why do you need to do that

There are many restrictions while using a torrent client.

1. Your ISP (Internet service provider) might limit the download speed.

2. ISP might completely ban downloading via a torrent client.

3. You might suffer a low downloading speed.

4. Torrenting is not very safe these days.

How to Use A torrent Cloud Download Service

Intro: A torrent online service does all the work for you, you only have to provide a torrent link (either .torrent or magnet), and the rest the torrent service will handle, Once they fetch the file on their server you can simply copy the download link and paste in your favorite Download Manager (IDM, maybe) and voila, the download will start without any speed restriction.

That sounds interesting. Let’s see a real example.

Step 1. Choose a free Torrent service

You can use “Seedr” for starters and sign up. I’ve already written a separate guide on downloading torrents to the cloud. Actually, I am a big fan of this website, and it’s not because this is a biased review (it’s actually not a review of seedr overall). Seedr.cc website lets you stream and make download torrents to the cloud so you can download torrent files over the HTTP connection. It converts magnet links to direct links online, For this purpose, you need to sign up there. Once you sign up, confirm the email address, and you are ready to convert a torrent file into direct links.

Step 2. Add torrent or magnet

Visit a torrent index site to get a torrent file or Magnet URL. Remember, visiting Torrent sites may not be safe and your ISP may be keeping an eye on you, If you still want to process here are the best torrenting websites on the internet or niche torrent sites.

Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites  (Mention)

Disclaimer: Quickfever does not intend or support the illegal sharing of copyrighted files in any manner. Please take a simple decision while using such file-sharing networks. Please understand that viewing and downloading torrents are not illegal, however, downloading copyrighted files via torrents is.

Step 3. Copy Download Link

Paste the Magnet or (.torrent) to the website and click on the “+” button and files will start to save in the cloud. Well, you just have to add the torrent to the website, and it will start downloading the file to the cloud storage, even if you don’t have to wait, you can close the site and come later in case there are fewer seeds. Then right-click on the file and select the “Copy Download Link” option, which will copy the download link to the clipboard. You can also navigate those files, and you can download or stream it. This is also helpful if you just need some files from a torrent, for example, if you downloaded a torrent containing 10 files, you can navigate to those 10 files and download files separately.

Now, open the Internet download manager and simply paste the link to start downloading the file over the HTTP connection. Or use any of these download managers for windows or android. Alternatively, if you want to download directly using your browser you can also do that to download the file. To do that select any file or folder and right-click and select “Copy Download Link” and paste the link anywhere you want to download with. So it doesn’t matter how you’ll download the files what is important is that the process is amazingly easy.

For example, open IDM, from Tasks > Add new, paste the link and click on the “ok” button to start downloading the file.

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Download torrents using IDM (or your favorite download manager) was never this easier before. With an online service and some knowledge will get the work done in seconds. There is a reason many people use IDM, its simplicity and faster download speed. Have you noticed when you’re downloading using IDM, other internet processes became slower, that is because it uses most of the internet speed to download files?

Since there are plenty of torrent services, and tons of torrent clients, perhaps I can say this guide is the best way to deal with torrents. I hope next time you don’t have to download torrents this might surely help you. Do you know a friend who should be reading this? Help them by sharing this article.

This article might help you get started with preparing Chrome OS flex bootable installation USB. This requires a few things which include downloading Chrome OS flex system file (the Image is in .BIN format instead of standard .ISO format).

Chrome OS flex, more like Chrome OS for non-Chromebooks. Running Chrome OS (unofficial) is not new but now it’s from Google itself, Google acquired Cloudready in 2020 (it was a project to bring Chrome OS to desktop) later Google named it Cloudready 2.0 which is also known as Chrome OS flex.

Get Chrome OS Flex ISO BIN system image.

📍You can get a downloadable system image from Google. (File size is around 1GB)

Burn it to USB using a tool like Rufus (a handy tool to create a bootable USB).

Please note that the article title might say you’ll get an ISO but it’ll be a .BIN (where files are stored in binary format) where files are usually compressed in an ISO.

Once you have this file, download a tool such as Rufus and burn it straightforwardly. Optionally If you’re using the Chromebook utility chrome extension, click the setting icon and select a local file option, choose the file that you’ve and start the process.

That’s it now boot it from the USB with these common keys F1, F2, F8 – F12, ESC, and Delete. Optionally when you’re exhausted getting into the boot menu, try booting into BIOS and set USB to boot first.

Now boot from USB you’ll see a Chrome OS logo and after a few seconds the Welcome screen where you can configure the OS as per your choice.

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Microsoft has been a bad boy when people try to set Google Chrome as their default web browser, it’ll be interesting to see the fight between the desktop operating system of Microsoft and Google. Google is better at the mobile android operating system, whereas Microsoft Windows have the monopoly.

We’ve had unofficial forks of chromium OS in past and even with Play Store and Google Assistant but Google officially releasing the OS to the public as a developer preview is another level of excitement. Forks such as FydeOS, ArnoldtheBat, and OpenThos look similar to Chrome OS but have their downs in terms of reliability and performance.

Google is supposed to support the majority of the hardware, and we might see better and refined builds of the same in near future. If the first unstable chrome os flex is this awesome and created a buzz in the market then take it for granted that it’ll surely make an impact to the deksoto users.

Linux has never been able to replace Windows, even when Microsoft is too cold-stoned for 3rd party browsers.

Windows 11 version 22H2 might ask for the Product key when you proceed to install it on your computer. Here is a simple method to bypass the product key requirement during Windows 11 installation.

If you may have noticed this was the same case with Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 where did directly running the setup always ask for a Product Key with no option to bypass, some of the versions of older Windows had ” I don’t have a product key” option that allowed the installation to proceed without the requirement of entering a serial key. The good news there is a method that is officially documented on Microsoft’s support website.

Recently we came across this issue when we built a Windows 11 22H2 ISO using one of our methods. We came across the same issue that was presented in Windows 8.1 and we solved it with the same method.

When you are using a bootable USB drive

1. Perhaps you want to install Windows 11 using a thumb drive, prepare the bootable USB drive and proceed to step 2.
2. Browse to the /sources folder.
3. If you can find the ei.cfg file, open it. And if you don’t find it create a a text file using notepad and use the save as option and save it as ei.cfg (please note that the extension should be cfg not txt).
4. Paste the following lines to the file and save it.
   [EditionID] Professional
   [Channel] Retail
   [VL] 0
5. Save this file and run the Windows 11 setup again from the USB drive. You will notice that this time the setup will not ask for a product key which was the whole purpose of this article. If you solve your issue share this article with one of your friend. Please know that a single step t from you is much appreciated

When installing directly from the files

If you have a running operating system you can install Windows 11 without using any USB drive. What you need to do is mount the ISO file on your computer, and run the setup file. You will have an option to keep your settings and file but if you really want to do a clean install choose nothing and proceed.

What happened when the setup runs and it’ll ask product key which obviously you don’t have at this point in time.

Remember that you cannot modify the mounted ISO file so here is what we need to do.

1. Right-click on the ISO file and extract it using Winrar or 7Zip.
2. You’ll find a folder named sources, navigate to it, and create a new file.
3. Name it EI.CFG and paste this data to it.

If you are not sure about the addition type you can leave it, but make sure you have the channel and VL tags. Please see the screenshot for reference.