Category Archives: Windows

Windows 10: Update error 0x80070652

Posted on 2016-11-27 by guenni

[German]Does Windows 10 Windows Update (or a Windows feature upgrade) stalls with error code 0x0070652? This blog post deals with this error and gives hints how to fix the error cause.

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Warning: Windows Server hangs after UEFI Secure Boot (November 2016) Update

Posted on 2016-11-26 by guenni

[German]Administrators of Lenovo Servers should take care. November 2016 Security Update for Boot Manager (3193479) is causing some Lenovo Servers to hang during boot at Lenovo splash screen.

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Windows Rollup Update Previews Nov 2016 (KB3197868, KB319787, KB3196686)

Posted on 2016-11-16 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has released monthly Preview Rollup Updates for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 and its corresponding Server variants. Also a Rollup Update Preview for .Net Framework has been released at 11/15/2016.

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Rollup Updates KB3197867, KB3197868 (Windows 7), and KB3197873, KB3197874 (Windows 8.1)

Posted on 2016-11-09 by guenni

Microsoft has released a couple of Rollup updates for Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and the corrospending Server variants at November 8, 2016. Here are the details, what's inside.

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Windows 10: Updates KB3200970, KB3198586, KB3198585

Posted on 2016-11-09 by guenni

Microsoft has released cumulative updates KB3200970 (Windows 10 Version 1607), KB3198586 (Windows 10 Version 1511), and KB3198585 (Windows 10 RTM). This updates are also available for Windows Server 2016.

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Microsoft Patchday November 8, 2016

Posted on 2016-11-09 by guenni

Microsoft has released a couple of security updates for Windows at November patchday. Also CVE-2016-7255 reported by Google has been fixed. Here is an overview.

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Web of Trust harvesting and selling user’s surfing data

Posted on 2016-11-07 by guenni

Browser add-on Web of Trust (WoT) has been harvesting an selling user's surfing data without anonymising it. After this incident was uncovered, WoT was dropped from Firefox and Google.

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Uninstalling ‘uninstallable’ Windows Updates

Posted on 2016-10-21 by guenni

[German]Some Windows updates are installed as permanent and doesn't offer an uninstall option. This blog post shows how to force uninstalling such update packages (works from Windows 7 up to Windows 10).

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Windows Live Essentials 2012 – R.I.P.

Posted on 2016-10-20 by guenni

[German]Windows Live Essentials 2012 will be retired at January 10, 2017, because the end of live has been reached.

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Windows 10 Updates KB3200068, KB3199125 fixes SCOM bug

Posted on 2016-10-19 by guenni

Microsoft has released on C-patchday (10/18/2016) cumulative updates for several Windows 10 builds. These updates fixes some issues – especially the SCOM bug.

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