Tools and Boot Keys
Hackintosh Tools, Boot Key Combinations, and Links
General Hackintosh Tools
OCAuxiliaryTools: OpenCore Auxiliary Tools - OCAT the best config.plist editor and EFI configurator
EFI Mounter: EFI Agent
Xplist Plist Editor: Xplist
ProperTree Plist Editor: ProperTree plist editor with OpenCore Snapshot features
PlistEdit Pro – Advanced Plist editor: PlistEdit Pro - nice, but commercial
Open Core Legacy Patcher: OCLP for downloading macOS and updating root patches
Mist macOS Downloader: Mist a Mac utility that downloads macOS Installers
Tools for Checking
System Info: Hackintool
Hardware Monitor: HWMonitorSMC2
Metal benchmark: Geekbench
Disk Speedtest: AJA System Test Lite or AmorphousDiskMark
Menu Bar SIP Detector: menu bar app that displays the current status of SIP
CPU Torture Test: Prime95
CPU monitoring: Intel Power Gadget
Battery checker: coconutBattery useful for Laptops
GLview: OpenGL Extensions Viewer
USB Port Mapper: USBToolBox or Hackintool
IORegistryExplorer IORegistryClone
Hardware Decode Acceleration (linked from here): VDADecoderChecker
Gfxutil for checking GPU acceleration: Gfxutil tool to work with Device Properties
OpenCore Boot Key Combinations
Enable
KeySupport&PollAppleHotKeysin Config.plist.For PC keyboard: enable
KeySwap.Press keys after power on:
OPT or ESC or Zero — at startup to show OpenCore Picker.
CMD+OPT+P+R — reset NVRAM.
Press keys when OpenCore Picker is shown
CMD+V — verbose startup.
CMD+S — boot in single user mode.
CMD+R — boot into macOS recovery partition.
SHIFT+ENTER — boot macOS in Safe Mode.
CTRL+ENTER — to set default boot option.
SPACE — to show more options such as NVRAM reset or UEFI Shell
Links
covers iGPU, Audio, Sleep, Power Management, USB mapping, NVRAM, Security, Battery, Multibooting, DRM, iMessage, etc.
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