Category Archives: Windows

Botched Windows 10 V1809 upgrade reached Million PCs

Posted on 2018-10-31 by guenni

[German]Windows 10 October 2018 Update (V1809), released to the public by Microsoft on October 2, 2018 and withdrawn a short time later, may have been installed on millions of PCs.

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Windows 10 V1809: Update KB4464455 fixes ZIP bug

Posted on 2018-10-30 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has released the KB4464455 (v2) update for Windows Insider. This update applies to the withdrawn Windows 10 V1809. The update is intended to fix out additional bugs, such as the ZIP bug.

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Windows Update KB4462917: Issue with Domain Controllers

Posted on 2018-10-30 by guenni

[German]A brief information for administrators in corporate environments running domain controllers with Active Directory domains. October 2018 update KB4462917 for Windows 10 V1607 and Windows Server 2016 causes issues with domain controller promotions for new Active Directory domains in existing … Continue reading →

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Bing/Edge directed Chrome-Fans to Phishing sites

Posted on 2018-10-29 by guenni

[German]A worrying thing that may have happened in the USA. Users looking for a Google Chrome download in Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 were occasionally redirected to a page offering unwanted software (PUP).

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Windows Defender in a sandbox

Posted on 2018-10-27 by guenni

Microsoft has added an additional security feature to the Windows Defender included in Windows 10. Defender can be run in a protected sandbox environment from Windows 10 V1703 onwards.

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

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Windows 10 Mobile: Bootloader unlocker is Open Source

Posted on 2018-10-27 by guenni

A brief information for for people who still have Windows 10 Mobile devices and use them for handicrafts. René Lergner has released his bootloader unlocker code as Open Source.

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Windows 7: CBS.log bug can fill your system drive

Posted on 2018-10-26 by guenni

[German]In Windows 7 (and other versions) there is a CBS.log bug that Microsoft should have known about for years. A Windows component writes data to a log file, which can become very large as a result. However, a function to … Continue reading →

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Win 10: Bug in UWP API enables access to user data/file

Posted on 2018-10-26 by guenni

[German]There is discussion that a design flaw (a bug) within the Universal Windows Platform API allows UWP app developers to access arbitrary user data. In Windows 10 V1809, Microsoft has tried to mitigate the bug – but then UWP apps … Continue reading →

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AMD ends 32 bit driver support

Posted on 2018-10-26 by guenni

[German]A brief information for users of a 32-bit version of Windows with AMD hardware. Manufacturer AMD has just announced that support for 32-bit drivers for Windows is phasing out.

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Exchange 2019 released, but no Windows Server 2019 available to deploy

Posted on 2018-10-25 by guenni

[German]At the moment everything is going wrong at Microsoft: They have just released Exchange 2019, but the platform (Windows Server 2019) on which this software could run has been withdrawn.

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