Category Archives: Update

Update KB971033/KB4480960/KB4480970 bricks Windows 7 Genuine (0xc004f200)

[German]New day, new problem: Microsoft probably released the old update KB971033 again the night before. As it looks, Windows 7 is no longer activated after installing the update and is reported as not genuine. Addendum: It's related to Windows 7 … Continue reading

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Patchday Microsoft Office Updates (January 8, 2019)

[German]As of January 8, 2019 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), Microsoft has released several security updates for supported Microsoft Office versions and products such as Sharepoint.

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Network issues with updates KB4480970 and KB4480960

[German]The KB4480970 (Monthly Rollup) and KB4480960 (Security only) updates were released by Microsoft on January 8, 2018 for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. The updates seem to cause serious network issues for some people. Network shares … Continue reading

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Patchday Windows 10-Updates (January 8, 2019)

[German]On January 8, 2019 (the second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), several cumulative updates were released for the supported Windows 10 builds. Here are some details about each update.

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Patchday: Updates for Windows 7/8.1/Server Jan. 8, 2019

[German]On January 8, 2019, Microsoft released various (security) updates for Windows 7 SP1 and other updates for Windows 8.1 as well as the corresponding server versions. Here is an overview of these updates.

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

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (January 8, 2019)

[German]As of January 8, 2019, Microsoft released several security updates for Windows clients and servers, Office, etc. Below is a compact overview of these updates and some notes.

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Office 2010 Updates for January 2019 has been pulled

[German]Welcome to 2019 – especially for Microsoft's customers, who are relating to updates. Noting new this year: Microsoft has pulled the four updates issued for Office 2010 on January 2, 2019, to enable the new Japanese calendar.

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Microsoft Office Patchday (January 2, 2019)

[German]For the first Tuesday of the month (Office Patchday), Microsoft has released some non-security updates for Microsoft Office 2010, Office 2013, and Office 2016 on January 2, 2019.

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7-Zip version 18.6 released

[German]A brief information for users of the packing program 7-Zip. Developer Igor Pavlov has updated the Windows version of the program available for various platforms to version 18.06 as of December 30, 2018 (thanks to blog reader Georg S. for … Continue reading

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VLC Player 3.0.5 released

The developers of VideoLan released the VLC Player version 3.0.5 for Linux, macOS and Windows on December 27, 2018. This is a maintenance update which brings some minor changes.

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