Category Archives: Windows

Win 7/8.1: Internet Explorer Update KB4505050 (05/18/2019)

[German]A brief note for Windows users: Microsoft released the KB4505050 cumulative update for Internet Explorer on May 18, 2019. This is a patch that fixes a bug caused from IE 11 update released on last Patchday (May 14, 2019).

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Windows 10 V1809: Issues with Update KB4494441

[German]At the moment there is some confusion about the cumulative update KB4494441 for Windows 10 Version 1809. And there are other issues, that have been reported.

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Windows 10: Reliability update KB4023057 (05/16/2019)

[German]As of May 16, 2019 Microsoft has re-released a new version of the reliability update KB4023057 for Windows 10, version 1507 to version 1803. Here are a few details about this update.

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Windows 10: Intel DCH graphic driver 26.20.100.6861 released

[German]A brief note to Windows 10 users with a Intel GPUs. Intel has released a new version 26.20.100.6861 of its DCH graphics driver for 64-bit versions of Windows 10.

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Windows 10 V1809: Retpoline is automatically active now

[German]Microsoft has automatically activated mitigation against Spectre V2 through Retpoline compiler technology in the kernel for Windows 10 Version 1809 and Windows Server 2019 as of May 14, 2019..

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

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Microsoft Intune 1905 requires TPM chip for Windows 10

Microsoft has just started rolling out the Microsoft Intune 1905 Features. There is an option for compliance policy for a TPM chipset in Windows 10 devices. Who wants to use this option for Windows 10 has to make sure that … Continue reading

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Patchday: Updates for Windows 7/8.1/Server (May 14, 2019)

[German]On May 14, 2019, Microsoft released several (security) updates for Windows 7 SP1 and further updates for Windows 8.1 as well as the corresponding server versions. Here is an overview of these updates.

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Critical update for Windows XP up to Windows 7 (May 2019)

[German]On May 14, 2019, Microsoft released an urgend security update for older Windows versions up to Windows 7 that closes a critical vulnerability CVE-2019-0708 in Remote Desktop Services. The vulnerability is considered to be so critical that Windows XP and … Continue reading

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Windows 10 V1809: Crashes during using ZIP archives?

[German]In this blog post I would like to discuss a possible issue with unpacking ZIP files under Windows 10 V1809. The Explorer may hang during unpacking the archive.

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Windows 10 on 825 Million devices, market share and more

[German]Exciting question: On how many devices does Windows 10 actually run now? And what is the operating system share on desktops? I came across several information during the last days that I would like to present here.

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