Tag Archives: Windows 10

Microsoft announces Windows 7 EOL, recommends Windows 10

Posted on 2017-01-19 by guenni

[German]Windows 10 is now released since 1,5 years, but Windows 7 still runs on a majority of desktop systems. Now Microsoft Germany announced in a press release "the end of life" for Windows 7 in three years (January 14, 2020) … Continue reading →

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Microsoft lowers price for Windows 10 OEM licences

Posted on 2017-01-16 by guenni

Is Microsoft planning to lower license fees for Windows 10 for it's OEMs? Windows 10 is already free for machines with display size below 10 inch. The Taiwan based Digitimes has published an article here, suggesting, that Microsoft has settled … Continue reading →

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Windows 10: Defender Offline Scan boot loop – Part 2

Posted on 2017-01-12 by guenni

[German]In part 1 I've discussed, what's causing error code 0x80070578 in Windows Defender. In part 2 I will discuss, how to fix Windows Defender Offline boot loop, that prevents Windows 10 start.

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Windows 10: Windows Defender drops error 0x80070578

Posted on 2017-01-11 by guenni

Some Windows 10 users are facing  a curious issue: Windows reports after each login an offline Windows Defender and shows error code 0x80070578. Here a few hints how to solve this problem.

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Microsoft January 2017 Patchday summary

Posted on 2017-01-10 by guenni

Microsoft has released on January 10, 2017 (Patchday) a couple of security updates for supported Windows versions, for Adobe Flash and for Microsoft Office 2016/Sharepoint.

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Windows 10: System restore fails with error 0x81000203

Posted on 2017-01-09 by guenni

[German]Does system restore refuses to work in Windows 10 (or other Windows versions) and stalls with error code 0x81000203? Here a few hints, what's the reason.

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Windows 10: Fix for several Maps App issues

Posted on 2017-01-08 by guenni

[German]Microsoft provides a Maps app that can be used for navigating. But some users are facing issues with Maps – sometimes it takes long, until the map is shown, or Cortana won't work. Here is a hint, what's causing probably … Continue reading →

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Windows 10: Volume control is missing

Posted on 2017-01-05 by guenni

[German]Sometimes users are missing volume control icon in taskbars status area. This blog post addresses this issue and provides diagnostics steps to fix that issue.

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Process Monitor: How to enable Windows 10 boot logging

Posted on 2017-01-03 by guenni

Recently I stumbled upon an error: In Windows 10 I wasn't able to use Sysinternals Process Monitor for boot logging. The feature just dropped an error message. Here are the details and a how to cure this issue and enable … Continue reading →

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Windows 10: How to fix update error 0x80080008

Posted on 2017-01-02 by guenni

Some users are receiving an update error 0x80080008 under Windows 10 and the installation is aborted. Within this blog post I give some hints how to fix this error.

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