Patchday: Updates for Windows 7/8.1/Server (March 12, 2019)

Windows Update[German]On March 12, 2019, Microsoft released various (security) updates for Windows 7 SP1 and other updates for Windows 8.1 as well as the corresponding server versions. Here is an overview of these updates.

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (March 12, 2019)

Windows Update[German]As of March 12, 2019, Microsoft released numerous security updates for Windows clients and servers, Office, etc. Here is a compact overview about these update.

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Microsoft announces Windows 7 End of Life

win7[German]In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced again to the end of Extended Support for Windows 7 on January 14, 2020 and provides information on the migration to successor operating systems.

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Windows 10 message ‘We removed some recently installed updates …’

[German]On Windows 10, you may see a message that an update has been removed automatically to recover a devices from a startup failure. Microsoft has now explained why you see this information.

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Windows Server 2016: KB4487006 causes Blue Screens

[German]Update KB4487006 released by Microsoft in February 2019 for Windows 10 V1607 and its server counterpart KB4487006 causes some servers to crash with blue screens.

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

[Sponsored Post]In the rapidly evolving IT world, choosing the right remote desktop software is critical for organizations that value security, ease of use and reliability. One provider of secure remote access that has been on the market since 2001 is ISL Online, which presents some considerations for choosing such software below. More ...


Windows 10: Insider Preview 18351 in Slow Ring

Microsoft  has released the Windows 10 Insider Previews Build 18351 in the Slow Ring. This is the version in development branch 19H1 that we expect to receive in April 2019 as Windows 10 V1903. The info can be found as a supplement to March 11, 2019 within the Windows Blog. Build 18351.7 (KB4492310) contains a single fix for the problem that Chinese versions of several games do not work.

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Outlook 2010 can’t access Mail after Updates from 03/05/2019

[German]On March 5, 2019, Microsoft released several updates for Office 2010. I now have some information that Outlook 2010 can no longer receive e-mail from POP3 e-mail servers.

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News about the broken MSComCTL.ocx updates on Office

[German]Here's the subject up again in the hope that more people will be affected. It's about the problem that Microsoft delivers a MSComCTL.ocx version of Office updates that no longer works with existing software.

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CCleaner v5.54.7088 available

[German]A brief information for CCleaner users (I know that some of my blog readers are interested in that stuff). Piriform released an update to CCleaner v5.54.7088 for Windows on March 4, 2019.

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ReactOS 0.4.11 released

[German], 2019, the developers of the project released ReactOS 0.4.11. I downloaded this version a few days ago and tested it in a virtual machine. Here are some information and impressions.

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