There is simply no reason to have Cortana running on your mining rig.
Validate that Link State Power Management is Off. On each dropdown presented, change the value to Never. Click the Radio button for High Performance. In the search bar, type Choose a Power Plan. In other words, it will sleep, hibernate, etc.įor our purposes, we want High Performance, with some minor changes Balanced automatically balances performance with energy consumption on capable hardware. 
Out of the box, Windows 10 configures itself for a Balanced power plan.
Enter Your Username and Password, D omain should be prepopulated. Personally, I like to use a utility from SystInternals called Autologon for Windows There are plenty of ways to enable automatic login, some of them more complicated than others. Choose the radio button for Allow remote connections to this computer. There are a number of ways to do this with 3rd party software (TeamViewer), but if you are going to manage your machine from your local network, Remote Desktop is hard to beat. Managing your mining machine is much easier when you can do this remotely. Choose the Radio button for Adjust for best performance. Select the Radio button for Custom Size. Uncheck Automatically manage paging file size for all drives. Click Change to configure Virtual Memory. Advanced Tab under Performance, Click Settings. Right Click This PC and Choose Properties. System with 1 x 8GB GPU + 3 x 4GB GPU = Min 20GB, Max 24GB. System with 4 x 4GB GPU = Min 16GB, Max 20GB. Move the Slider to the bottom Never Notify and it displays Never notify me when:įrom what I have learned, the rule of thumb is the sum of all GPU memory per card (minimum of 16GB) and at least the sum of all GPUMEM+1. In the Window Search Bar type Change User Account Control Settings. Find Windows Update – Right Click and choose Properties. Getting Windows setup properly for mining is not difficult and here are some of the more common things you should consider. 
Additionally, Windows Update may reboot your system in the middle of the night without warning. For instance, things like Cortana and OneDrive serve no purpose. Getting your rig up and running may not be that difficult to start, but you may soon realize that there are a lot of things running in Windows 10 that do not need to be a part of your mining experience or may cause unexpected results.
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