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Recents Folder Empty After Restart macOS

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After installing Ventura 13.7.1 OS on a new disk drive, my recents folder works for the duration of the time, but it’s blank (empty) after every restart. I do need the recents folder for reusing images and movies.  After reading on the webs, I found a solution that actually works by re-indexing spotlight. 1. Go

HP Elitebook 845 G7 Ryzen 7 Pro 4750u Review

elitebook 845 G7 Ryzen 7 Pro 4750u

I’ve bought this used laptop for $165 and replaced with my old 1TB NVME for testing. Specs: 1. 14″ screen, 3lbs. 2. 16GB Ram, 256GB NVME. 3. Ports: 2 x USB-C, 2 x USB-A, 1 x HDMI, 1 x Audio Port. 4. 65W USB-C charger + 53Wh internal Battery. 5. Realtek WiFi module replaced with

Fix Coffee Lake Dim Backlight On Sonoma and Sequoia

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The Coffee Lake IGPU was broken since Sonoma and Sequoia. The symptom is booting up to a dimmed backlight. If put it to sleep then wake, it will come back with full brightness backlight or wait for about 3 minutes it will come back full brightness. Thanks to hackintosh community, I found the fix here.

ECEnabler.kext

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These days with Clover and OC boot loader, we don’t have to patch the battery laptops like before with Rehabman’s battery dsdt patch but sometimes the battery shows up and sometimes it doesn’t. is to rescue and make the battery more reliable than with all the patches. It’s really simple, just download the ECEnabler.kext, put

How To Fix AppleALC Sound In macOS Ventura

sound on macOS Ventura

I have Realtek ALC295 on my Lenovo X1 Tablet Gen 3 with layout id 77 the sound works fine on macOS Monterey 12.6.3 but doesn’t work on macOS Ventura 13.2.1. I need to add a boot arg -lilubetaall to get it to work.