[German]On April 4, 2018 Microsoft has revised the updates KB4090450, KB4088875, KB4088878, KB408888881 for Windows. I collected some details, and there are other details about Windows bugs.
[German]Intel has stopped developing microcode updates to close the meltdown vulnerability for older CPUs. This can be seen in the latest Intel Microcode Update Guidance revision.
[German]Microsoft's Malware Protection Engine has a critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-0986). All supported Windows versions are affected. Microsoft has released a security update for the affected products.
[German]The first Tuesday of the month is Office Patchday. On April 3, 2018, Microsoft released non-security updates for Microsoft Office 2010, Office 2013, and Office 2016.
[German]Today a short blog post about an ancient topic: How can we delete old network profiles in Windows 7, Windows 8.x and Windows 10 that were created automatically when connecting to a WLAN network? This is quite convenient in Windows 7. In Windows 8.x and Windows 10, there are tricks available.
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[German]Users of Windows 10 get sometimes an update error 0x80070157 when trying to install cumulative updates. Here is an attempt to shed some light on this error.
[German]Today a short tip for users of Google Chrome (and probably also for its clones). How can you stop the annoying popups asking you, if you want to receive notifications that websites offer when you first visit them?
[German]Cloudflare has started a DNS service under the IP address 1.1.1.1 today, April 1, 2018 (four ones suggest the start on April 1). Here is some information about it.
Something funny for the weekend: Probably an'Easter egg', which Microsoft dropped into my nest. A few days ago I suddenly got a nice (false) alarm from the Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). They don't trust their own stuff anymore, although the archive file was in the folder for weeks.
In this sense: Happy Easter and virus-free on all sides on the remaining days of the year.
[German]Microsoft has surprisingly released update KB4099950 for Windows 7 SP1. It is a maintenance update to fix the problems with the virtual network adapters (NIC problem) caused by the KB4088875 and KB4088878 security updates of March 13, 2018.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
