Monthly Archives: July 2016

Devices probably getting Android 7.0 Nougat

Since Google dubbed the upcoming Android Version as Android Nougat (7.0), many owners worried about whether their devices receive this Update.

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Check and repair Windows system files and component store

Users of Windows are facing the situation from time to time, that certain features no longer work. The Windows Store is missing or there are updates problems and so on. Then the question arises, "how to repair Windows"? The following … Continue reading

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BIOS-Updates for Dell XPS 13 and XPS 15

Dell has released two BIOS updates for XPS 13 and XPS 15 that fixes a couple of bugs and enhance both systems. Here's what has been fixed.

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Android Security Bulletin July 2016

Google has released a security bulletin for Android at July 6, 2016, addressing the newest security flaws. Patches for supported Google Nexus devices will be rolled out within the next days. Also Samsung rolls out some security updates for his … Continue reading

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Microsoft explains the KB3159398 GPO problem

Microsoft's update KB3159398, released on patch day June 14, 2016, is causing serious problems in Windows Group Policy. Now Microsoft explains what's happened.

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Windows 10 Version 1607: No more Windows Journal

One little program, the Windows Journal, has shipped with many Windows Versions. But it's now time to say god by. Windows Journal has been removed from Windows 10 Version 1607.

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Windows 10: Open command prompt window as administrator

This blog post describes several ways how to open a command prompt windows as administrator (with administrator credentials). This has been asked many times in MS Answers forums.

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Microsoft Update-Summary: Windows and Office (July 5, 2016)

Microsoft has released several non-security updates for Windows 7/8.1 and Office 2007 – 2016 at July 5, 2016. Here is a short summary.

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How to decode Windows errors?

[German]In case of error Windows reports a cryptic error code instead of a detailed error description. Within this blog post I will try to give a few hints to decode this Windows error codes.

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Qualcomm-vulnerability breaks Android’s disk encryption

Flaws in Qualcomm's TrustZone implementation allows to crack Android's disk encryption (device encryption) via brute-force attacks. Millions of Android devices are affected.

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