Windows 10 2019 LTSC: Update KB5003703 (June 15, 2021)

Posted on 2021-06-16 by guenni

Windows[German]As of the third Tuesday in June (June 15, 2021), Microsoft has also released the non-security update KB5003703. Here are some details about this update, which has been released for the Windows 10 Enterprise 2019 LTSC etc. and Windows Server 2019. A list of updates can be found on this Microsoft website. I have pulled out the details below.

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Windows 10 V1909: Update KB5003698 released (June 15, 2021)

Posted on 2021-06-16 by guenni

Windows[German]On the third Tuesday of June (June 15, 2021), Microsoft has released the non-security update KB5003698. Here are some details about this update, which is for Windows 10 version 1909 (only affects the Enterprise and Education variants, as Home and Pro have fallen out of support).

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Windows 11 Build 21996.1 leaked

Posted on 2021-06-16 by guenni

Windows[German]A good week before Microsoft's June 24, 2021 event to talk about the future of Windows, build 21996.1 of Windows 11 has been leaked to the Internet. It is admittedly a developer version that was created at the end of May 2021. However, this one allows a first look at what Microsoft is planning. Tthis version is reported as Windows 11 when installed.

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Windows 10: The buggy "News and interests" feature and Microsoft's confirmation

Posted on 2021-06-16 by guenni

Windows[German]The "News and interests" feature, recently introduced in Windows 10, is not only annoys some users. The feature is also so broken, and now Microsoft has confirmed some issues. Here's a look at the the detail of this topic.

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Critical vulnerability in SonicWall firewall software

Posted on 2021-06-15 by guenni

Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)[German]Swizz blog reader Adrian has forwarded an alerted me to about a critical vulnerability in the Sonicwall firewall web management interface (thanks for that). The vulnerability affects both physical and virtual firewalls from SonicWall. The vendor strongly advises its customers to apply the appropriate SonicOS patch immediately.

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Windows 10: Flooded with empty TMP directory garbage

Posted on 2021-06-15 by guenni

Windows[German]Today another inquiry to the readership of this blog, if the observation of a reader can be verified. The reader noticed that under Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro, in version 21H1 and with all updates installed, "directory garbage" suddenly appears. Windows leaves a bunch of empty directories in the system profile folder every time it reboots.

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Windows 10: Does update KB5003637 cause printer/spooler issues?

Posted on 2021-06-14 by guenni

Windows[German]I'm going to bring up a topic that I'm not sure how widespread it is. I think there are reports that the June 8, 2021 KB5003637 cumulative security update is again causing printing issues. Print jobs are not getting past the printer spooler, devices (Kyocera) are unable to print. Here's some information on a bug that has been bothering Windows users for a while.

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Windows 7/8.1: Nvidia ends graphics driver support in October 2021

Posted on 2021-06-14 by guenni

Windows[German]Graphics card manufacturer Nvidia has announced the end of Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 support with graphics card drivers on June 11, 2021. Starting October 4, 2021, Game Ready Driver upgrades, including performance improvements, new features, and bug fixes, will be available exclusively for systems running Windows 10 as the operating system. So support for Windows 7/8.1 in this regard will end. But critical security updates will be available for systems running Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 until September 2024. Support for the Kepler-GeForce GPU will also end then, as you can read here.

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Windows 10: Reliability update KB4023057 re-released (June 2021)

Posted on 2021-06-14 by guenni

Windows[German]Microsoft probably released the preparation update KB4023057 for machines with Windows 10 again the days. The update is supposed to improve the reliability of the Windows Update service. I interpret the whole thing in such a way that once again some update problems were found on the Windows 10 systems of private users, which one wanted to eliminate.

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Windows 10: End of support for Internet Explorer 11 on June 15, 2022

Posted on 2021-06-14 by guenni

[German]A small reminder for Windows users who still use Internet Explorer 11 as their browser. The desktop version under Windows 10 will be taken out of support in certain variants on June 15, 2022, and will no longer receive any updates. Microsoft will completely rely on Chromium Edge as the browser in Windows 10 in the future. Users now have one more year before the browser is displaced by Edge.

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