[German]News from the broken Windows 10 search feature in start menu. Microsoft believes it will soon be able to fix the bug for all users. This bug caused a worldwide failure of the Windows 10 startmenu search on February 5, 2020.
[German]Administrators and users should be careful about installing the out-of-band update KB4539602 on Windows 7 SP1 or on Windows Server 2008 R2. If the SHA-2 update KB4474419, dated September 2019, is missing, the machine will not boot after the update installation.
[German]The Chromium Edge browser has nasty problems in the corporate environment when managing a user data directory. When user data directories are enabled, the Chromium Edge cannot be used by the same user on different clients at the same time.
[German]Brief information for users, who want to access Linux Btrfs disks under Windows. Blog reader Gero S. pointed out to me (thanks for that) that version 1.6 was released on February 4, 2020. I had introduced version 1.5 in the article Windows driver WinBtrfs v1.5 for Linux file system released. Details can be found on GitHub – download it here.
[German]Dell SupportAssist, which ships with Dell's Windows systems, contains a serious vulnerability in older versions that allows the execution of arbitrary code with administrative privileges.
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[German]A Windows that lets people work just without the need to upgrade? Works alongside Windows 7 or 10 and doesn't even cost anything. That's a hot promise for Windows 7 switchers whodon't like Windows 10. Therefore the successor is called 'Windows 12 Lite'.
[German]The Debian project has released new installation images for Debian 9.12 and 10.3 this weekend (February 8th) I had already seen it, but blog reader Ralf explicitly points it out in this comment (thanks for that).
[German]In Windows 10, the search in the Start menu repeatedly fails (as on February 5, 2020). This seems to be a recurring problem for which a blog reader sent me another observation and a solution that he uses in his corporate environment.
[German]If the search on the desktop fails you can reset it. Microsoft has released a script to fix a broken search in 2019. Within this blog post I will show, what Microsoft provides on solutions to fix a broken search.
[German]Some Windows 7 users (Addendum: and Windows 10) may be surprised to find that the operating system suddenly shuts down or restarts. The operation is rejected because of missing permissions (You do not have permission to shutdown this computer). Addendum: It seems to me, that an Adobe CC update from early Feb. 2020 (or for similar software) is causing this behavior. I've rewritten parts of the 'Adobe service' section, to make things a bit more clear. And there are signs, that Bitdefender Total Security 2020 may cause also this behavior – hope that helps.
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2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
