[German]Microsoft has quietly (in another document about Storage sense) declared Windows 10 Disk Cleanup as deprecated and may omit this feature in future. Here are a few more details about that topic.
[German]In Windows 10 Version 1803 there is a bug that prevents the display of a user-specific background for the lock/login screen until a user has logged in once. A fix is schedules for the next days.
[German]Is Microsoft planning a major restructuring of its Windows product group or the Windows area after Windows 10 Version 1809 has been completed in development? Will the chairs be back again in Redmond?
[German]Microsoft upgrades its Office 365 suite against malware and macro-virus threats. The Office 365 modules (Word, Excel etc.) receive an Anti Malware Scan Interface (AMSI for virus scanners to scan the documents..
Strange things happened within the Microsoft Update Catalog. As Woody Leonhard mentioned at askwoody.com, the number of September 2018 updates went down from 127 items down to 126 entries on September 13, 2018. And Windows 10 V1803 Servicing Stack Update (SSU) KB456655 has been re-published.
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Some unofficial repositories for the Kodi open source media player deliver cryptomining malware for Windows and Linux platforms in a modified add-on. Here are a few details.
Microsoft released cumulative update KB4463376 for Internet Explorer 11 on September 14, 2018. The fix: Internet Explorer performance decreases when you use roaming profiles or do not use the Microsoft compatibility list. The update is available only through the Microsoft Update Catalog for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. (via)
[German]Microsoft has released a set of microcode updates for various Windows 10 builds. These updates are intended to protect various processors against the Spectre V2 vulnerability. Here is some information about the updates, as well as chaos in the KB descriptions. There is also an addendum about WSUS and (revised) microcode updates, which should not have been delivered, but which are now available again.
[German]Does Windows 10 throw error code 0x80246010 during update installation and aborts this step? This article tries to give hints on how to fix the update error 0x80246010.
[German]It seems that Piriform's CCleaner will be forced to be updates from old version 5.38 to version 5.46 – and the telemetry settings are switches on by default.
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