Proxmox Window 11 Sound

When making changes to the VM, best to have the VM off. Make the changes and boot the VM.

This took me hours to figure out, with most of the time used searching and with no avail. So I started to experiment and found the answer.

In the Proxmox PVE VM, go to Hardware and make sure that Display is set to SPICE (qxl):

ProxmoxWindows11Sound

This will activate the audio in Windows 11.

Windows11WithSound

Even though the audio is activated on Windows 11, unless the Audio output mode is set to Local on the RDP client, Windows will shows no audio.

Windows RDP client:
WindowsRDPEnable sound-RDP edit

If using Remmina:
RemminaRDP

Myself

Sometimes I wake up and say to myself, “Today is the day that I will make changes to my life and will continue to make changes until I have reached that place where I vision myself to be.” I go to work and then when I am done, I am tired, I sit on the couch, watch television, eat dinner and sleep. POOF! The day is gone and I wake up the next day finding myself doing the same thing all over again.

I have found myself…

GroundhogDay

Last year I left a position, that seemed to me, I was becoming stagant, so I applied for several positions and was able to accept a position that I deemed challeging. The last few days, I found myself again in that situation as my previous position, so I decided to make a change, not in work position, but with myself.

I do now know where I read, that to make a change, as a human, I cannot make large changes that will be life altering. I might be able to do large (abrupt) changes for a day, maybe a week or a month, e.g., diet, exercise, etc., but abrupt changes are not sustainable in the log run and I will revert back to my old routine. So the best to make the changes incremental and small, or even tiny. Try thrity-second changes. Do something that I want to change for thrity-seconds, once I start, see if I continue after the thrity-seconds has completed. This has made a change in my life, hence why I am documenting this. I will continue to make this change until I have reached goals that I have set for myself.

My hope that by December 31th, I can make that leap that I have been thinking of for a while…

If it’s meant to be, it’s up to me.” -J.M. Barrie

Windows Update KB5034441 Fails to update

When trying to update KB5034441:
WindowsUPdate

The following is returned:
WindowsUpdateError

I read through some forums and some suggestions are so convoluted and confusing, I doubt anyone would try, or if tried, more than likely would cause more of an issue than resolve the problem.

I found one suggestion at tenforums.com that I followed:
Download MiniTool Parti Partition Wizard (MiniTool Partition Wizard – Free)
Originally the GPT (Recovery Partition) was 500 MB. The update fails from the recovery partition is not large enough, so I resized the Data Partition (C:) to be 1 GB less, which provided a 1GB of unallocated space, which I then allocated to the Recovery Partition. The Recovery Partition, after the allocation, was resized to 1.51 GB
MiniToolPartitionWizard

Resizing the partitions:
Quit all programs before starting!
MiniTool Partition Wizard (Free) recommends to backup the data before moving or resizing the partition. MiniTools also has a backup application, MiniTool ShadowMaker Free. I cannot speak of the ShadowMaker application, because I have not used the application, nor did I make a backup of my system prior to the rezising of the partition. But I high suggest you do a backup of all files/system in case of disaster!!!

Resizing was very simple! After downloading the MiniTool Partition Wazard Free and completing the installation (DO NOT JUST CLICK NEXT – Make sure to ONLY SELECT the installation option that is required for MiniTool Partition to install. If in doubt, uncheck the option. If required for MiniTool Partition Wizard to install, the option cannot be unselected.)

Start MiniTool–>Right click on C: (GPT (Data Partition)–>Move/Resize
moveResize

Click on the down arrow for “Partition Size:” next to where the partition size is shown. Click until 1GB is in the “Unallocated Space After:” and then click OK.

The type is defaulted to GB (Gigabyte), if the type is showing MB instead of GB, click on the downward pointing blue arrow to the right and choose GB.
unallcatedSpaceAfter

Next:
Right click on “*: (GPT (Recovery Partition)) and click on the up arrow for the “Partition Size:” to move the 1GB from the “Unallocated Space After:” into the “Partition Size:” Again, make sure that the size is in GB and not MB, otherwise more clicking is required to allocate the space to the “Partition Size”. Once completed, click OK.

A message will be displayed to quit all programs prior to partition allocation and a restart will be required. After the restart, I restarted the MiniTool Partition Wizard (Free) to view the partitions. The partitions were updated. I started the Windows Update and reran the update. The update installed without an error.

WindowsUpdateSuccess